While gout is a disease of luxury, scurvy is a disease of privation. This privation may be caused by penury or it may be caused by isolation. Sailors and soldiers isolated from markets and gardens, and where they cannot obtain fresh fruits and vegetables, are most subject to this scourge. While the pathology of the condition is not thoroughly understood, the cause is generally accepted to be as above indicated. The rational treatment for the condition is a free use of fresh vegetables and fruits, also fresh meats in place of smoked, pickled, and canned meats. When this can be accomplished there is usually a gradual return to the normal condition.