Scurvy

Beri-beri, polyneuritis in birds, epidemic dropsy, scurvy, experimental scurvy in animals, infantile scurvy, ship beri-beri, pellagra.

In other cases, a meat-only diet could cause scurvy. citation Scott's 1902 expedition used lightly fried seal meat and liver, whereby complete recovery from incipient scurvy was reported to take less than two weeks.

Mr Colbert poured them both glasses of tequila with ice and extra lime to "keep away the scurvy".

How do you treat scurvy?

In all, six passengers died from scurvy before the Coronet finally arrived in Portland in October 1911, where Sandford was arrested, and more charges naming him responsible for the deaths on board soon followed.

The case study of a 65-year-old woman with a restricted diet and social isolation led to her diagnosis of scurvy.

He will be blind and/or have scurvy by the time he's 23.

Scurvy is a vitamin C deficiency with some nasty side effects.

That's why we get scurvy.

This included exposure to the Royal Navy’s battle with scurvy—a struggle that presaged Takaki’s own campaign against beriberi.

Along the way they encounter death, gangrene, scurvy, snow blindness, frostbite, dysentery, altitude sickness and other severe discomforts.

There’s also the whole interesting area of not just what killed them—scurvy, lead poisoning, consumption they brought with them, some combination—but whether they had actually gone slightly crazy after all that time or from their illnesses.

While actual scurvy is rare, about 6 percent of Americans over age six don’t get enough of the vitamin.

Although Lind was not the first to suggest citrus fruit as a cure for scurvy, he was the first to study their effect by a systematic experiment in 1747.

Another example is the development of scurvy among infants in the late 19th century in the United States.

A significant number of travelers were suffering from scurvy by the end of their trips.

Deficiency main Scurvy is an avitaminosis resulting from lack of vitamin C, since without this vitamin, the synthesized collagen is too unstable to perform its function.

For example, the Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897–1899 became seriously affected by scurvy when its leader Adrien de Gerlache initially discouraged his men from eating penguin and seal meat.

Fresh meat from animals which make their own vitamin C (which most animals do) contains enough vitamin C to prevent scurvy, and even partly treat it.

Freshwater teleost fishes also require dietary vitamin C in their diet or they will get scurvy.