Ioannis Vuieri medicarum observationum rararum Liber I

in the age of Augustus Caesar. For when Aelius Gallus had led the Roman army into Arabia under his command, he was forced to leave it behind during that very expedition at Albus Vicus, a great emporium of the Nabataeans, where it was necessary to pass the summer and winter so that the infirm could be restored. Since the army was tempted by the vices of the mouth and legs, those of that place, Strabo writes in book 16, near the end, that there was a certain resolution of the mouth and legs arising from the waters and fruits, who lived at the same time. I do not find a peculiar name for this plague among the Arabs; however, the physicians, either the Greeks who were then mostly practicing medicine among the Romans, or the Latins skilled in the Greek language who followed the Roman armies in those wars, forged Greek names based on the symptoms that appeared most at that time in the mouth and in the shins, so that the disease would be called stomacace mouth-rot from the vice of the mouth, and skeletyrbe leg-disease from the injury and infection of the shins. For the physicians who accompanied Germanicus Caesar did not receive these terms from the Frisians, who at that time seemed to lack physicians who were highly learned and versed in the use of foreign languages, so that they were unable to form appropriate Greek names for the diseases. If, however, they happened to have any, they were local and of little erudition. The physicians following Aelius Gallus did not learn these same words repeatedly from the Arabs or Nabataeans.

skeletyrbe is not scurvy.

Furthermore, the scelotyrbe described by the author of the Definitions under the name of Galen is nothing less than our scurvy, since he writes that it is a species of paralysis...