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What was the reason that Admiral Zheng’s soldiers not suffer from scurvy?

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So, according to Gavin Menzies, the answer to the question of who discovered that scurvy could be prevented is not James Lind or maybe Zheng ...

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What was the reason that Admiral Zheng’s soldiers not suffer from scurvy?

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James Lind, a Scottish doctor, is usually given the credit for discovering in 1747 that scurvy, the disease that plagued many early European seafarers, could be prevented through the consumption of citrus fruits, even though he had no idea what the protective substance was.

James Lind, a Scottish doctor, is usually given the credit for discovering in 1747 that scurvy, the disease that plagued many early European seafarers, could be prevented through the consumption of citrus fruits, even though he had no idea what the protective substance was.But according to the controversial book, ‘1421: the year China discovered the world’, written by retired submarine commander Gavin Menzies and first published in 2002, this is an ethnocentric judgement. The book suggests that earlier, long distance Chinese voyagers were almost entirely successful in preventing the development of scurvy among their crews.