The Cellar - Scurvy

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You don't hear about if much today, but it was a serious issue far sailors.

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While in middle school health class, you probably learned that sailors of centuries past suffered scurvy when they didn't eat enough oranges. But what you didn't hear was that between 1500 and 1800, an estimated two million of them died from it!

"It was such a problem that ship owners and governments counted on a 50 percent death rate from scurvy for their sailors on any major voyage," science journalist Catherine Price wrote in her book Vitamania. "[A]ccording to historian Stephen Bown, scurvy was responsible for more deaths at sea than storms, shipwrecks, combat, and all other diseases combined."

British Commodore George Anson's celebrated voyage around the world may have earned him fame and fortune, but it also resulted in the deaths of 65% of his crew. 1,300 sailors, stationed across six ships, lost their lives, the vast majority of them to scurvy.

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 936446)

...serous issue far sailors...

It resembled a serum?

:p:

that's a lot of them.

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Originally Posted by Gravdigr (Post 936450)

It resembled a serum?

:p:

What on earth are you talking about? :blush:

Serous - as opposed to serious.

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Originally Posted by DanaC (Post 936472)

Serous - as opposed to serious.

Notice the edit at the bottom.

Why do you think I'm called Limey?!

Sent by thought transference

Because you make other women green with envy.;)

because you go well with gin and tonic?

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Originally Posted by limey (Post 936500)

Why do you think I'm called Limey?!

Parents found you in a Corona bottle?

:p: