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Sentence Examples This is an extremely low level, and it represents only the amount needed to prevent health problems such as scurvy, a vitamin deficiency disease. Overt vitamin deficiency diseases, such as pellagra or scurvy, are uncommon in persons who consume a typical North American diet. Captain James Cook is widely renowned as an explorer, pioneering navigator and preventer of scurvy. Lemon juice is probably the best of all antiscorbutics, being almost a specific in scurvy. As we now know, oranges and lemons are excellent sources of vitamin C, and scurvy is the disease resulting from severe vitamin C deficiency. Disease is rife and diet related illnesses such as scurvy are evident everywhere. Newbies from elsewhere, even though they have to learn the scurvy trade from scratch, at least don't have to shed bad journalistic habits. And finally, there do be help available for ye landlubbers and scurvy dogs who can't talk like Pirates. Call me by that scurvy name one more time, and ye'll be walking the plank, I swear it! Long ago, Linus Pauling, Ph.D. a two-time Nobel Prize winner, pointed out that gum disease is actually a form of scurvy. In Java, poultices of the herb are applied to old sores, scurvy, and other skin conditions. They were utterly appalling with their rotten or missing teeth, tangled, matted hair, and yellowing scurvy eyes. When they left after a few weeks, the rest, recreation and fresh fruit having cured the crews' scurvy, they were heaped with presents. A line of Alpine cress or maybe Pyrenean scurvy grass ran from an arched mine-level entrance. Whalebone corsets, colonial uprisings, scurvy, press gangs, and monocles popping out in astonishment shall be the order of the day. He lost all but one of his six ships, and two thirds of the crews he shipped, most of them to scurvy. Barcoo gave us Barcoo rot for a form of scurvy and the Darling River gave us Darling shower for a dust storm. It transpired that the child had weak bones caused by scurvy and certain dietary intolerances. He treated his scorbutic patients with a mixture of plant and vegetable juices made from water cress, brooklime, scurvy grass, all herbs rich in ascorbic acid. When was the last time that you met an American-born person suffering from rickets, scurvy, beriberi, pellagra, or any other disease caused entirely by malnutrition. Show More Sentences The Chinese had discovered much earlier, around the 5th century ad, that scurvy at sea could be avoided by carrying live ginger plants on board junks. In the 18th century, German immigrants coming to Pennsylvania boarded ships plagued with typhus, dysentery, smallpox, and scurvy. Avast, ye scurvy dogs, Kerry will swing from the highest yardarm! Gilbert Blane and Thomas Beddoes, highly esteemed authorities on scurvy in the 18th century, rightly doubted that there was any antiscorbutic virtue in malt. Cook did, for example, but other captains didn't and it was an imperfectly understood thing, that you had to have antiscorbutics in the diet otherwise you got scurvy. Time to splice yer mainbrace, stow yer bilge, avast yer scurvy dog. This was an attempt to replace all those nutrients I suspect I have not been getting from raro and cheese toasties, after the discovery scurvy was not just for sailors. To complicate matters, most men suffered from multiple diseases, including dysentery, typhoid, scurvy, and pneumonia or other respiratory ailments. Mortality among women and small children had increased by 50 per cent and hunger-related diseases such as rickets, scurvy, and tuberculosis were endemic. So it's a little bit different to the sort of classic nutritional deficiency diseases, like scurvy, it seems to be slightly more complicated than that. Modern medicine categorizes diarrhea as a symptom of a disease, such as scurvy, typhoid, malaria, and dysentery, or as a symptom of indigestible substances in the intestines. Edison's father Eucalyptus once remarked that if Lulu succumbed to her scurvy pox no one would even know but for the lessening of her complaints for hard tack and goat milk. If there had been TV reporters and satellite uplinks on Columbus' voyage, most of the coverage would have dealt with scurvy and the lack of an exit strategy. Vitamin deficiency is also a common result of starvation, often leading to anemia, beriberi, pellagra, and scurvy. At one point, while sick from scurvy, Richard is said to have picked off guards on the walls with a crossbow, while being carried on a stretcher. Historian Susan Maclean Kybett ascribes his demise to scurvy, which is caused by a lack of fresh fruits and vegetables. The greatest killer at sea was scurvy, a disease caused by vitamin C deficiency. The lack of fresh fruit and vegetables gave rise to scurvy, one of the biggest killers at sea. Traditionally, breakfast would be served with a small amount of fruit, such as a slice of orange, believed to prevent the onset of scurvy. Cold, famine, and scurvy destroyed so many of his men that only he and two other men survived. Show More Sentences His ship was wrecked off the Kamchatka Peninsula, as many of his crew were disabled by scurvy. The tree is the source of spruce beer, which was once used to prevent and even cure scurvy. Analysis of the crew skeletons shows many had suffered malnutrition, and had evidence of rickets, scurvy, and other deficiency diseases. There is little plant growth, consisting mostly of moss and some scurvy grass, but no trees. As scurvy worsens there can be poor wound healing, personality changes, and finally death from infection or bleeding. In modern Western societies, scurvy is rarely present in adults, although infants and elderly people are affected. Virtually all commercially available baby formulas contain added vitamin C, preventing infantile scurvy. Although rare, there are also documented cases of scurvy due to poor dietary choices by people living in industrialized nations. Lawrence River, used the local natives' knowledge to save his men who were dying of scurvy. In 1593, Admiral Sir Richard Hawkins advocated drinking orange and lemon juice as a means of preventing scurvy. He repeated the experience of mariners that the cure for scurvy was fresh food or, if not available, oranges, lemons, limes, and tamarinds. With the coming of war in 1793, the need to eliminate scurvy acquired a new urgency. Infantile scurvy emerged in the late 19th century because children were being fed pasteurized cow's milk, particularly in the urban upper class. However, Scott discovered that a diet of fresh meat from Antarctic seals cured scurvy before any fatalities occurred. Until that time, scurvy had not been observed in any organism apart from humans and had been considered an exclusively human disease. Certain birds, mammals, and fish are susceptible to scurvy, but pigeons are unaffected, since they can synthesize ascorbic acid internally. Deficiency causes scurvy in humans, and somewhat similar symptoms in other animals. To make matters worse, while his reinforcements arrived, they did so utterly exhausted and depleted by scurvy. She said that Fedot died of scurvy, some of his companions were killed by the Koryaks and the rest fled in small boats to an unknown fate. There is meadowsweet coming up, sea kale and scurvy grass on the shore, wood sorrel everywhere. Show More Sentences Gary McLardy found blooming bluebells, hedge garlic, Danish scurvy grass and green alkanet in Formby earlier this month. In the 13th century, the Crusaders frequently suffered from scurvy. In 1932, the connection between hexuronic acid and scurvy was finally proven by American researcher Charles Glen King of the University of Pittsburgh. They fed guinea pigs their test diet of grains and flour, which had earlier produced beriberi in their pigeons, and were surprised when classic scurvy resulted instead. The Merchant Shipping Act of 1867 required all ships of the Royal Navy and Merchant Navy to provide a daily lime ration to sailors to prevent scurvy. In February 1601, Captain James Lancaster, while sailing to Sumatra, landed on the northern coast to specifically obtain lemons and oranges for his crew to stop scurvy. The knowledge that consuming foods containing vitamin C is a cure for scurvy has been repeatedly rediscovered and forgotten into the early 20th century. During Francis stay in the strait crew members discovered that an infusion made of the bark of Drimys winteri could be used as remedy against scurvy. Scott's 1902 Antarctic expedition used lightly fried seal meat and liver, whereby complete recovery from incipient scurvy was reported to have taken less than two weeks. Typically, scurvy is caused by a lack of vitamin C in the diet. Already before the Cape, provisions had grown stale, scurvy and dysentery had often set in, and deaths of crews and passengers from disease had begun. Starvation, exposure and scurvy all contributed to the men's deaths. The greatest killer was scurvy, a disease that had been shown to be preventable by issuing lemon or lime juice to sailors but was not taken seriously. A simple, yet sometimes controversial example of this is the rebound infantile scurvy that may occur if a mother has taken megadoses of vitamin C during her pregnancy. Examples from Classical Literature It is valuable in this connection to compare the adrenal in scurvy with that of beriberi. Its significance is discussed at length in the consideration of the adrenal gland in human scurvy. That's a scurvy welcome to give a nephew you haven't seen for eighteen years. Salt meat is not so easily digested as fresh provisions, and has a tendency to produce putrid diseases, especially the scurvy. The antitoxic theory suffers from the fact that the toxic origin of scurvy cannot be established. Ship-beriberi is generally regarded as a combination of beriberi and scurvy. Results of this kind show that there must be a relationship between the etiologic factors of scurvy and of beriberi. The Tartars and Egyptians still employ baths of this description in hypochondriasis, scrofula, and scurvy. Amherst thought that spruce beer was a remedy against scurvy and made great quantities of it. The Resolution had only three men on the sick-list, and but one of these had the scurvy. We ate it frequently raw, and found it almost like the New Zealand scurvy grass. It should be added that Holst and Froelich failed to cure scurvy in guinea-pigs by intraperitoneal inoculations of orange juice. As was to be expected, scurvy occurred most often in Russia, where it is endemic. It is a common belief that separation of the epiphyses occurs only in infants and young children, and not in the scurvy of adults. The same holds true for human scurvy, as we have noted in connection with the symptomatology. It has not, however, been accorded any place in the symptomatology of infantile scurvy. Fate had played him a scurvy trick in making him a trembler, but he knew it was not in him to turn his back on Dingwell. In scurvy the mouth and gums inflame and ulcerate, the latter becoming swollen, spongy, and of a bluish-red color. These results are far from constituting evidence in favor of the microbic origin of scurvy. Hmaturia sometimes occurs, especially in broken-down and cachectic subjects and in an advanced stage of scurvy. Show More Sentences In regard to scurvy, there may well be other etiologic factors, but they are of a secondary character. Its relationship to scurvy cannot, therefore, at the present time, be discussed from an etiologic viewpoint. The tendency of children with exudative diathesis to develop scurvy is perhaps still another manifestation of vascular weakness. In both scurvy and in exudative diathesis eczema and petechial hemorrhages are encountered. Guinea-pigs which were thus treated showed no microscopic signs of scurvy in any of the ribs, in the tibi or the femora. It is doubtful whether mere clinical studies will contribute in a large measure to the solution of the pathogenesis of scurvy. The diagnosis is rendered more difficult, as at times scurvy is associated with signs of neuritis. The cardiovascular system has been given but scant attention in connection with scurvy. From the history it is usually easy to exclude scurvy and purpura. I am in half a mind to thrash you, in which case you will be the first to reap the fruits of your scurvy knavery. Isn't there danger of scurvy if we have nothing but salt pork to eat? She had been under my care three years before for sailor's scurvy. Handel thought the orchestra was just playing him a scurvy trick. Half the crew of seventy-seven perish of starvation and scurvy. Bilberries have been used by sailors for the treatment of scurvy caused be deficiency of Vitamin C on long sea voyages. Saltmarsh was home to rare plants such as sea spurrey, sea aster, and scurvy grass. Prescot's hedge mustard, ivy leaved toadflax and smooth soapwort blooms, but its Danish scurvy grass has now gone to seed. White-flowered scurvy grass, which once provided vitamins for sailors, grows on the island. Sail the seven seas with these scurvy sea pigs on a tale of mystery and intrigue. For this reason we believe that scurvy may predispose to frostbite. Show More Sentences Added to its other woes the servian army was visited by scurvy. From somewhere in the distance came the rhythmic snores of scurvy knaves getting their eight hours. The hydrochloric acid generally is deficient in cases of scurvy. But, on the contrary, icterus has rarely been noted in scurvy. Dog in the manger, a scurvy, ill-conditioned, selfish fellow. Hess and Unger failed to cure infantile scurvy by means of lactose. These changes are considered again under the symptomatology of scurvy. The urinary system is frequently involved in the course of scurvy. After four breakfasts and a gallon of champagne, to serve us such a scurvy trick. A BOY of eight died of scurvy after his parents mistook his illness for growing pains. Let us turn to some of the current theories of the etiology of scurvy. Among these may be enumerated the wild celery and scurvy grass, two very serviceable plants, the use of which has not been discovered by the natives. You can pick seaweeds such as sea spaghetti and dulse, sample seashore plants like sea beet, rock samphire and scurvy grass, and maybe catch shrimps and pick mussels. Nor was he downhearted when the scurvy broke out on his own body. Find more words! 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