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Vitamin C deficiency can cause Scurvy... using lime juice to prevent scurvy with the vitamin C in citric acids. It’s also been said that smokers... 
Scurvy is a disease of civilization because you need civilization to make long ocean... were far less likely to get scurvy. In 1747, James Lind, a doctor, compared six purported cures for scurvy...
What? Does that sound strange to you? Strange that I really hope that Ashley has scurvy... is scurvy. Yes, the disease of 17th and 18th century sailors making their way across the oceans...
Scurvy Institute (NSI) recently convened a 5-day conference to assess progress in the War on Scurvy..., NIH (National Institute of Health) and ASS (American Scurvy Society) have spent over $30 billion... 
You'd better believe that I'm going to be talking like a pirate at the TSA security guard peopleguy station--or maybe they don't have a sense of humor about that sort of thing?
Hmmmm....think I'll stick with my previous
Allow me to geek out for a moment: this week in Biochem, we learned about scurvy... in centuries past were susceptible to scurvy, since they had little access to fresh fruits or vegetables... 
I have the flu. Or the plague. Or scurvy. Or something equally unpleasant that has made me rather useless for the past several days.
While I have been spending my days dragging myself from my bed...
surgeon James Lind discovered that citrus foods helped prevent scurvy among sailors. Scurvy causes poor... are ignored. In the early 20th century, when scurvy undermined two expeditions to the Antarctic... 
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