scurvie

“It is eaten," says Gerard, "in salads, as watercresses are, and is good against that _malum_ of such as dwell near the German seas, which we term the scurvie, or skirby, being used after the same manner that watercress and scurvy-grass is used, yet is it not of so great operation and virtue.”

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure

“The Nazareni, a scurvie Sect, begun, that boasted much of Revelations and Visions.”

A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume II: The Beginnings of Modern Science

“-- I doubte it was scurvie of me, but it did me muche goode.”

Stories by American Authors (Volume 4)

“Now they are clapper-clawing one another: Ile go looke on, that dissembling abhominable varlet Diomede. has got that same scurvie dooting foolish knaves sleeve of”

The Historie of Troylus and Cresseida (1609 Edition)