The story of vitamin C began centuries ago with accounts of a disease called scurvy.
While some people try chickweed for a vitamin C deficiency disease called scurvy, the amount of vitamin C in chickweed is too small to be effective.
Low levels of vitamin C can result in a condition called scurvy.
It was the disease a later age would call scurvy: a disease of long voyages and dried food.
Lack of vitamin C can cause a sickness called scurvy, where the gums in the mouth bleed easily and wounds do not heal.
Vitamin C was first found in 1928, and in 1932 it was proved to stop the sickness called scurvy.
Lack of ascorbic acid in the daily diet leads to a disease called scurvy, a form of avitaminosis that is characterized by:
Other uses include treating cancer, diabetes, dysentery, fever, heart problems, warts, and a vitamin C-deficiency condition called scurvy.
Because of this, they occasionally got a disease called scurvy.
Scurvy grass gets its name from the fact that sailors used to take it to prevent a disease called scurvy.