On May 20, 1747, Lind assessed a dozen patients with scurvy aboard the Royal Navy ship HMS Salisbury while at sea. All 12 patients were in the same part of the ship and shared a common diet.

Scurvy is often thought of as an archaic disease that affected sailors in the 18th century, when it was common for as many as two-thirds of a ship’s crew to die from it on a long sea voyage.

Scurvy was the scourge of sailors for thousands of years and killed two million seafarers between the 16th and 18th centuries, often decimating entire ship crews and killing more people than war.

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Scurvy may not be a disease you hear much about in the 21st century, but it was once a major concern for sailors and seafarers. It killed more than two million sailors between the time Columbus ...

This is not a situation comparable to a British naval expedition in the 1740s, when two-thirds of a ship’s crew might die of scurvy. Still, that doesn’t mean the findings should be dismissed ...

Scurvy was most common hundreds of years ago onboard ships undergoing long-haul journeys, when crews could go months without fresh fruit or vegetables. Symptoms include bleeding gums, red or blue ...

Almost 300 years after naval surgeon James Lind discovered that citrus juice was an effective remedy for scurvy, the vitamin deficiency is experiencing a resurgence. Scurvy is a condition caused ...