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Old 08-18-2015, 01:42 PM   #1
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Scurvy

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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Old 08-18-2015, 02:05 PM   #2
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...serous issue far sailors...
It resembled a serum?

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that's a lot of them.
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It resembled a serum?

What on earth are you talking about?
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Serous - as opposed to serious.
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Serous - as opposed to serious.
Notice the edit at the bottom.
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because you go well with gin and tonic?
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