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• Scurvy
  ...e diet leading to defective [[collagen]] formation in small blood vessels. Scurvy is characterized by bleeding in any tissue, weakness, [[anemia]], spongy gu Scurvy was a major health problem aboard early sailing vessels for which fresh pro
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• Scurvy/Definition
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• Scurvy/Related Articles
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• Scurvy
  ...e diet leading to defective [[collagen]] formation in small blood vessels. Scurvy is characterized by bleeding in any tissue, weakness, [[anemia]], spongy gu Scurvy was a major health problem aboard early sailing vessels for which fresh pro
  836 bytes (123 words) - 15:38, 9 January 2009
• Vitamin C/Definition
  ...and is usually obtained by eating fruits and vegetables; associated with [[scurvy]] (hence its chemical name, [[ascorbic acid]]).
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• James Lind/Definition
  ...hat fresh citrus fruit and lemon juice be added to the diet of sailors saw scurvy eliminated from the British Navy.
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• James Lind/Related Articles
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• Vitamin C/Related Articles
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• James Lind
  ...rvy]]. His systematic attempts to establish the efficacy of treatments for scurvy make him an important figure in the history of medicine.<ref>[http://www.ja ==Experiments on scurvy==
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• History of vitamin C
  ...list_uids=12422875&dopt=Abstract Jacques Cartier witnesses a treatment for scurvy.] NCBI Pb Med, 2002 Jun, Martini E. </ref> ...er, [[Johann Bachstrom]] of Leyden, in 1734, gave the firm opinion that ''"scurvy is solely owing to a total abstinence from fresh vegetable food, and greens
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• Physiology/Related Articles
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• Vitamin C/Bibliography
  *{{cite journal| author=Wilson LG| title=The clinical definition of scurvy and the discovery of vitamin C | journal=J Hist Med Allied Sci | year= 1975
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• James Cook
  ...hic knowledge and the fact that he was the first who was able to prevent [[scurvy]]&mdash;the scourge of long voyages&mdash;by the observance of strict dieta
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• Royal Navy/Related Articles
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• Ascorbic acid
  ...ed from the [[alpha privative]] ''a-'' (meaning no) and ''scorbuticus'' ([[scurvy]]), the disease caused by a deficiency of vitamin C. In 1937 the [[Nobel Pr ...]. The name "ascorbic" comes from its property of preventing and curing [[scurvy]]. [[Primate]]s, including humans, and a few other species in all divisions
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• New Brunswick, Canada
  ...s, New Brunswick|St. Andrews]]. 36 out of the 87 members died, mostly of [[scurvy]]. The colony was later relocated across the Bay of Fundy to [[Port Royal,
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• Samuel de Champlain
  ...tographer. The first disastrous winter, in which 35 out of 79 men died of scurvy, was passed on [[Ste.-Croix Island]], in the estuary that now marks the bou
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• Biologically based health practices
  ...tream to treat a deficiency disease caused by a vitamin-poor diet, such as scurvy from a lack of Vitamin C. Megadoses of vitamin C to prevent or treat upper
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• William Cullen
  ...y]]; (3) ''Cachexiae'', or diseases resulting from bad habit of body, as [[scurvy]]; and (4) ''Locales'', or local diseases, as [[cancer]]<ref>[http://books.
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• Great Siege of Scarborough Castle/Citable Version
  ...ouring cannon fire from land and sea over infantry assault. Bombardment, [[scurvy]], lack of [[water]], perhaps a shortage of [[gunpowder]] and the threat of
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• Vitamin C
  ...="pmid10570371">{{cite journal |author=Hirschmann JV ''& al.''|title=Adult scurvy |journal=J Am Acad Dermatol |volume=41 |pages=895–906; quiz 907–10 |yea First known as the vitamin that prevents [[scurvy]] (hence its chemical name, '''ascorbic acid'''), vitamin C is an important
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• Mission San Diego de Alcalá
  ...e servant, and six Christian Indians from Lower California had died from [[scurvy]] since the expedition's arrival; serious consideration was therefore given
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• Northwest Passage
  ...r parties failed, and the ship's entire crew was eventually debilitated by scurvy and short rations when, against all hope, Lieutenant Pym, on a sledge exped ...ad been thin, and sickly-looking; their gums were blackened (probably from scurvy) and they were hauling a large whaleboat. The next season, the Inuit found
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