On May 20, 1747, Lind assessed a dozen patients with scurvy aboard the Royal Navy ship HMS Salisbury while at sea. All 12 patients were in the same part of the ship and shared a common diet.

While it was once linked to 18th-century sailors living off limited diets for long sea journeys, scurvy still exists. In fact, a new case report in the Canadian Medical Association Journal details ...

Historically, this disease killed many sailors, who did not have such perishable foods available during their long voyages at sea. Scurvy takes some time to develop in a human with a vitamin-C ...

Scurvy (caused by a lack of vitamin C ... The challenges and risks of life at sea were not just physical but also psychological. Ships could be claustrophobic, with little privacy or personal ...

Almost 300 years after naval surgeon James Lind discovered that citrus juice was an effective remedy for scurvy, the vitamin deficiency is experiencing a resurgence. Scurvy is a condition caused ...