A comprehensive study of prognostics, Alpini placed special emphasis on the patient's mental well-being and its relationship to health and included the usual physical and diagnostic signs.
His discussion of the clinical signs and treatment of scurvy is among the best of the period and includes illustrations of cochlearia officinalis ("scurvy grass") which he introduced as a therapeutic agent for the disease.
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