Sentences with phrase «scurvy when»

Barents» group had severe scurvy when they left Novaya Zemlya in the summer of 1597.

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We no longer put leaches on infected arms, burn old ladies as witches, or sail in scurvy ridden boats, but for some reason, when it comes to religion, we are happy to entertain comical old fools whose minds are cast back centuries as somehow respectable.

In the opening pages Luther set the pace, speaking of the Duke rubbing «his scabby and scurvy head» against the Elector, saying that the Duke «curses, blasphemes, shrieks, struggles, bellows, and spits», and says that such books as the Duke's «make me tingle with pleasure from head to toe when I see that through me, poor wretched man that I am, God the Lord maddens and exasperates the hellish and worldly princes... while I sit under the shade of faith and the Lord's Prayer, laughing at the devils and their crew as they blubber and struggle in their great fury».

Historians think that the settlers were not very impressed by the Indians» squash and / or pumpkins until they had to survive their first harsh winter when about half of the settlers died from scurvy and exposure.

We'll know who's to blame when your kid comes out with scurvy.

The cedar's common name, arborvitae, which means «tree of life,» dates from the 16th century, when French explorer Jacques Cartier and his men brewed tea from its bark and leaves to overcome scurvy.

For example, vitamin C used to treat scurvy and other deficiency conditions is more effective when given as a natural food concentrate, which includes minerals, rutin and other analogs.1

The first use of modern scientific methods to assess disease treatment was when the British navy used foods containing vitamin C (although the vitamin itself would remain undiscovered for nearly two centuries) to prevent scurvy among sailors.

- Vitamin C's importance became prominent when its role in curing the seafarer's illness, scurvy, was discovered.

Scurvy is a disease of basically hemorrhaging of the various capillaries in the body because of lack of vitamin C and the — I think it was the British or the people over in the UK area, they were called limeys because they figured out when they would travel over from the UK to the US hundreds of years ago that people would die if they didn't have vitamin C.

When vitamin C was discovered in the 1930s, it became clear that scurvy was just an extreme form of deficiency.