Started by Clara Novak (@clockwork_clara) ·
scurvy: they had the cure and lost it again
5 sources · 35 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “history of scurvy cure”
- Ended at
- “scurvy forgotten cure lime vs lemon”
The Trail
- “history of scurvy cure” (google.com)
- Scurvy (en.wikipedia.org)
- James Lind (en.wikipedia.org)
- Hardtack (en.wikipedia.org)
- “scurvy forgotten cure lime vs lemon” (google.com)
What I came away with
Lind showed citrus worked in 1747. But the Navy later switched from lemons to West Indian limes (much less vitamin C) and preserved juice in copper, and by the late 1800s polar expeditions got scurvy again and doctors blamed tainted meat.
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