anti-scorbutic

To prevent scurvy we used the juice of the maguey plant, called pulque, and to obtain a supply of this anti-scorbutic I was often detailed to march the company out about forty miles, cut the plant, load up two or three wagons with the stalks, and carry them to camp.

She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

I know that raw meat diet is supposedly anti-scorbutic.

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It is questionable, however, whether the disease is due to this fact alone, since beef tea, which contains a good deal of potash, may be given freely to a scorbutic patient, yet he fails to recover till proper anti-scorbutic diet is supplied.

The Art of Living in Australia 2004

The different forms of fruit, and also of vegetables, owe their great value to the fact that they possess powerful anti-scorbutic properties.

The Art of Living in Australia 2004

On his return to Hungary, he noted the anti-scorbutic activity of ascorbic acid and discovered that paprika (capsicum annuum) was a rich source of vitamin C.

Albert Szent-Györgyi - Biography 1965

All the cresses are anti-scorbutic, that is, useful against the scurvy.

Food Remedies Facts About Foods And Their Medicinal Uses Florence Daniel

To prevent scurvy we used the juice of the maguey plant, called pulque, and to obtain a supply of this anti-scorbutic I was often detailed to march the company out about forty miles, cut the plant, load up two or three wagons with the stalks, and carry them to camp.

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

It will be best and simplest to define the word "anti-scorbutic" as

The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken Philip E. Muskett

We were at liberty to take as much fruit as we chose, and sent off several boats filled with oranges and limes, as well as a vast quantity of yams, sweet potatoes, cocoanuts and cocoas, besides fresh calelu (wild spinach), which is considered a fine anti-scorbutic.

A Sailor of King George Frederick Hoffman

On the fourth day they were so much benefited by that treatment and living on oranges, shaddocks, and other anti-scorbutic fruits, that they were able to go on board again.

A Sailor of King George Frederick Hoffman