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A short history of scurvy.
Newspaper article from: Nutrition Health Review; 3/22/1992; 627 words
; Scurvy is an ancient disease; its principal cause is now known to be an ascorbic acid (vitamin C) deficiency, but when scurvy devastated civilizations such as Egypt, Greece, and Rome...deadly plague was caused by a diet of inadequate nutrients. Scurvy influenced the course of history, especially the ...
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Avoiding the dire straits; an inquiry into food provisions and scurvy in the maritime and military history of China and wider East Asia.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: SciTech Book News; 6/1/2009; 211 words
; ...straits; an inquiry into food provisions and scurvy in the maritime and military history of...incidences and treatments among them for scurvy. The story of his search is as interesting...texts. He gives a general background on scurvy first. Then he edits and translates some...
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Arnold, Ann. Sea cows, shamans, and scurvy; Alaska's first naturalist: Georg Wilhelm Steller.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Kliatt; 9/1/2008; ; 229 words
; ARNOLD, Ann. Sea cows, shamans, and scurvy; Alaska's first naturalist: Georg Wilhelm Steller. Farrar, Straus...spring, horse-drawn sledges, storm-tossed ships, starvation, and scurvy. Along the way Steller collected thousands of specimens and learned...
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Scurvy's conquest and sailors' health.
Magazine article from: The Historian; 6/22/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...due in part to the control of such sea diseases as scurvy. The control of scurvy, allowing for more prolonged maritime explorations...along the Santa Fe trail in Kansas, which prevented scurvy among troops and pioneers crossing the central plains...
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Avast! No lubbers today, ye scurvy bilge rats!(General News)(Hoist the skull and crossbones, 'cause Sept. 19 has caught on as Talk Like a Pirate Day. Smartly now!)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR); 9/19/2003; 683 words
; ...grog, or yer bucket o' chum, holding this scurvy newspaper in your hand, just a-waitin...Just bend ye an ear. If ye read that scurvy syndicated humor columnist Dave Barry...hello,' you say `Ahoy!' Then you hang up. Scurvy telemarketers.' Now, the phenomenon is...
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Reflections on vitamin C and hidden scurvy.
Newspaper article from: Nutrition Health Review; 3/22/1992; ; 396 words
; ...one. The reasoning: Lack of ascorbic acid caused scurvy, so if there were no scurvy (apparent), there was no lack of ascorbic acid. The only trouble with this logic was that scurvy is not a first symptom of lack but a final collapse...
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Not tonight, dear, I have scurvy. (Literature Review & Comment).(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients; 2/1/2003; ; 211 words
; Forty-two healthy young adults (mean age, 24.4 years) with a current sexual partner were randomly assigned to receive, in double-blind fashion, 3,000 mg/day of vitamin C or placebo for 2 weeks. Among women, the frequency of sexual intercourse during the study was significantly greater in the
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Kids: You, too, can be a scurvy bilge rat.(Ticket)(A crew of entertainers finds treasure in turning children into pirates)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR); 3/13/2009; 700+ words
; Byline: Serena Markstrom The Register-Guard When you are a plundering pirate, the whole seafaring world is your oyster. Captain Bogg & Salty may not talk about robbing anyone on the high seas on the new CD Emphatical Piratical. But the band takes the liberty of using musical styles from around the
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The most essential nutrient: are you getting enough? Dr. Sharon Willingham reminds us of the body's important and often forgotten about necessity ... oxygen.(new life journal's wellness update)
Magazine article from: New Life Journal; 7/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; No vitamin C? Scurvy in three months. No vitamin D? Osteoporosis in three decades. No oxygen? Death or brain damage in three to ten minutes. Sounds...
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Was the Baby Shaken? (Letters to the Editor).(Letter to the Editor)
Magazine article from: Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients; 1/1/2002; 700+ words
; ...rlow's disease is another name for infantile scurvy or vitamin C deficiency, which was a well-recogniz...gums which are so characteristic of adult scurvy are never seen in toothless infants. It...the foul mouth and the bleeding gums of scurvy This does not occur in edentulous infants...
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