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Scurvy is an acquired disease due to a lack of vitamin C. :)

 

Famously brought to our attention by sailors in the age of discovery. They'd travel for months with non perishable food which in general lacks vitamin C(cept pickles) The result is horrible gingivitis orange and weak teeth. Some ammount of pain . It is also known as avitaminosis C.

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The Limey came from the experimental approach to C and consumption thereof. They messed around with rations til the citrus was found to ward of scurvy. In my foggy, post debate memory, Limes were available, lasted in old style storage & the sailors could be convinced to consume the lime juice since it was put into their ration of rum...Grog. (Does groggy come from that?)

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Also to this day the average human can tell that oranges(and other citruses) have vitamin C. While most don't know potatoes do.

Tbh though im more familiar with the treaty of tordesilhas age of discovery than the British one. In retrospect the Spanish and the Portuguese started it all and did it before the British. A little communication would have saved British sailors a lot of pain.

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True. Even the current Portuguese Hymn is an adultered version of a poem that says lets march against the Bretons in the and(was changed into lets march against the cannons). And since the tordesilhas treaty basically devided the world into Portuguese or Spanish by right(for colonisation that is) it would make sense that they wouldn't look too kindly on English maritime expansion. Well that not withstanding. Its hard to imagine that scurvy and vitamin c were a very well kept state secret for the Iberian peninsula. Im sorry about making a whole fuss on this. Just bugs me that this specific problem could be easily avoided.

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