In attempting to bite the hard corn bread furnished by the bakery the teeth often stuck fast and were pulled out.

The gums had a fashion of breaking away, in large chunks, which would be swallowed or spit out.

All the time one was eating his mouth would be filled with blood, fragments of gums and loosened teeth.
Frightful, malignant ulcers appeared in other parts of the body; the ever-present maggot flies laid eggs in these, and soon worms swarmed therein.

The sufferer looked and felt as if, though he yet lived and moved, his body was anticipating the rotting it would undergo a little later in the grave.
The last change was ushered in by the lower parts of the legs swelling.
When this appeared, we considered the man doomed.

We all had scurvy, more or less, but as long as it kept out of our legs we were hopeful.
First, the ankle joints swelled, then the foot became useless.