Question

What are the symptoms of disease like nights blindness, rackets, beriberi, neuritis, pellagra, anaemia, scurvy?

Answer 1

Scurvy is the name for a vitamin C deficiency. It can lead to anemia, debility, exhaustion, spontaneous bleeding, pain in the limbs, and especially the legs, swelling in some parts of the body, and sometimes ulceration of the gums and loss of teeth. Scurvy has been known since ancient Greek and Egyptian times.