Scurvy

Scurvy is beginning to show up amongst them, too, and they're just ripe for excitement.

THE MAN ON THE OTHER BANK 2010

Scurvy is a serious disease, one that can easily kill its victim if left untreated.

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

Scurvy is the same disease that killed seamen on long voyages because unless we get enough Vitamin C from our diet or our supplements, we get sick or die.

Bird Flu Lakeside (A critical - literally - issue). 2005

If the idea of millions of Americans curling up in front of a game called Scurvy Dogs sounds unlikely, consider how weird it is that we have spent the past 60-odd years metaphorically prowling around an old English manor, carrying plumbing.

The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - The Washington Post Monica Hesse 2011

"Scurvy," he muttered to Shorty; and the man confirmed the diagnosis with a nod of the head.

Smoke Bellew Jack London 1896

Note 75: R.E. Hughes, "Scurvy," in The Cambridge World History of Food, 2 vols., ed. Kenneth F. Kiple and Kriemhild Coneè Ornelas (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), Vol. I, pp. 988 – 9. back

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

Scurvy, rescued by vitamin C. Night blindness, vitamin A. Pellegra, vitamin B3.

Bill Chameides: To Sun or Not to Sun? A Rascally Question. Bill Chameides 2010

Scurvy, rescued by vitamin C. Night blindness, vitamin A. Pellegra, vitamin B3.

Bill Chameides: To Sun or Not to Sun? A Rascally Question. Bill Chameides 2010

Scurvy was curable by foods containing vitamin C, but the French had not yet figured that out.

George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

Scurvy, rescued by vitamin C. Night blindness, vitamin A. Pellegra, vitamin B3.

Bill Chameides: To Sun or Not to Sun? A Rascally Question. Bill Chameides 2010