Sentences with phrase «scurvy before»
Many babies fed formula developed vitamin deficiency diseases such as rickets and scurvy before doctors and manufacturers figured out that the baby's diet should be supplemented with orange juice and cod liver oil.
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«Captain Cook was handing out limes to his crew for scurvy before anyone knew what vitamin C is,» Reid says.
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Such regress has happened before: In the nineteenth century, the (correct) vitamin C deficiency theory of scurvy was replaced by the false belief that scurvy was caused by proximity to spoiled foods.
Long before the introduction of lemons and limes into the diets of sailors, scurvy - grass was a welcome food for returning mariners.
At age 17, he left home to enroll at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, subsisting on less than $ 1 a day — he calls it a forced experiment in avoiding scurvy — before landing a scholarship and earning an undergraduate physics degree at the University of Pennsylvania.
Their first mention of extreme fatigue comes shortly after the first bear was eaten, and long before they mention scurvy.
It needs to be diluted in water before being consumed in order to treat jaundice and scurvy.