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RONSSE, Boudewijn [Balduinus Ronsseus] (1525 – 1597)

1525 – 1597

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

1564 CE

#3710

De magnis Hippocratis lienibus, Pliniique stomacace, ac sceletyrbe, seu vulgo dicto scorbuto, libellus.

Jean de Joinville was probably the first, about 1250, to describe scurvy; Vasco da Gama noted its occurrence at sea, and Jacques Cartier mentioned it. Ronsse gave an early medical account describing how sailors cured …