Colonial Cures for Scurvy
Explore scurvy's colonial history & early cures with Dan Marshall—lecture + live demo of 17th- & 18th-century medicine-making techniques.Scurvy —a debilitating disease caused by a deficiency of vitamin C, was a scourge among sailors, with hundreds of thousands perishing during the colonial period, and during the American Revolutionary War it became a critical strategic factor that severely weakened the British ...





