Citrus fruit help in preventing scurvy. Its a true or false
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true
[ Citrus acid - vitamin C , deficiency - scurvy ]
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true
Explanation: history on discovery that citrus fruits can cure scurvy.....
For 18th Century sailors, disease during long sea voyages was often more dangerous than enemy action.
One British expedition to raid Spanish holdings in the Pacific Ocean in the 1740s lost 1,300 of an original complement of 2,000 men to illness.
The commander, George Anson, said "almost the whole crew" was afflicted by symptoms including a "luxuriancy of funguous flesh... putrid gums and... the most dreadful terrors".
Many sailors suffered "a strange dejection of the spirits" and lay immobile, while others who "resolved to get out of their hammocks, have died before they could well reach the deck".
Frequent outbreaks of disease tormented crews and various cures were championed.
The explorer Captain Cook recommended malt and sauerkraut, while others swore by "elixir of vitriol" (a dilute solution of sulphuric acid), blood-letting and applying a piece of turf to the patient's mouth to counter the "bad qualities of the sea-air".
Among the array of imaginative remedies were some that proved effective.
Sailors who ate the ship's rats were inadvertently protecting themselves - as the animal synthesizes its own vitamin C.
Citrus fruit - another source of vitamin C - had already been suggested as a cure by some.
The explorer Sir Richard Hawkins recorded in 1622 that "sower lemons and oranges" were "most fruitful... I wish that some learned man would write of it".
More than a century later, a learned man fulfilled that wish, with a text which earned him a place in scientific history.