DE SCORBVTO.

A decorative initial letter 'S' features intertwined foliage and a small creature.

Scurvy is when, because of an obstruction of the spleen, the attraction of the melancholic humor is impeded, which, being mixed with the rest of the blood, infects the entire body with a consumptive corruption: sometimes disfiguring the legs with reddish patches from the settling of its coarser parts: sometimes, with the thinner portion lifted upward, vitiating the tender gums with sharp corrosion and a putrid outgrowth of flesh. Such freedom of definitions and descriptions it is permitted for physicians to usurp, for the easier understanding of the matter: since I am not otherwise ignorant that these things would be to be discussed more curiously in the schools of logicians.

Scorbutus.

The name, however, is fictitious from the Danish and the language of maritime Germany. For "Scorbuc" sounds to them like a broken belly, as if the entire belly and hypochondria, as happens, are suffering: just as our countrymen call it "Scormut," when the gums are infected, which sounds like a broken cheek or mouth: likewise "Scorbein," when symptoms or signs of the disease appear in the legs, as if to say, broken shins: in Dutch, it is called "blaufchuit" blue-spot from the reddish spots.

Scormut.

Scorbein.

Blaufchuit.

It is the stomacace mouth-rot and sceletyrbe leg-disease of Pliny, which he mentions in book 25 of his Natural History, chapter 3, in these words: Nor do the [poisons] of beasts...

stomacace.

sceletyrbe.