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	Scurvy - LoveToKnow 1911
		SCURVY (Scorbutus), a constitutional disease, characterized by debility, morbid conditions of the blood, spongy gums, impairment of the nutritive functions, and the occurrence of haemorrhagic extravasations in the tissues of the body.
		Sir Almroth Wright in 1895 published his conclusions that scurvy was due to an acid intoxication, while Torup of Christiania believes it to be a direct poisoning from damaged and badly preserved meat.
		Infantile Scurvy (Scurvy Rickets, Barlow's disease), a disease of childhood due to a morbid condition of the blood and tissues from defects of diet, was first observed in England in 1876 by Sir T. Smith, and later fully investigated by Sir Thomas Barlow.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Scurvy (981 words)

	Scurvy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Scurvy was at one time common among sailors whose ships were out to sea longer than perishable fruits and vegetables could be stored and by soldiers who were similarly separated from these foods for extended periods.
		Scurvy was one of the limiting factors of marine travel, often killing large numbers of the passengers and crew on long-distance voyages.
		Scurvy is one of the accompanying diseases of malnutrition (other such micronutrient deficiencies are beriberi or pellagra) and thus is still widespread in areas of the world depending on external food aid.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scurvy (1132 words)

	Scurvy
		Scurvy is a disease caused by a dietary deficiency of vitamin C (ascorbic acid).
		Scurvy was a serious problem throughout the whole period of exploration and settlement in Canada.
		Scurvy was a major problem on nearly all of the 19th-century polar expeditions, and the tragic loss of John FRANKLIN's third arctic expedition in 1847 has been partly attributed to the disease.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0007239 (592 words)

	Scurvy-grass - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Scurvy grass, Scurvygrass) is a genus of about 30 species of annual and perennial herbs in the cabbage family Brassicaceae.
		They are widely distributed in temperate and arctic areas of the northern hemisphere, most commonly found in coastal regions, on cliff-tops and salt marshes where their high tolerance of salt enables them to avoid competition from larger, but less salt-tolerant plants; they also occur in alpine habitats in mountains and tundra.
		Scurvy-grass was extensively eaten in the past by sailors suffering from scurvy after returning from long voyages, as the leaves are rich in vitamin C, which cures this deficiency disease resulting from a lack of fresh vegetables in the diet.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scurvy_grass (362 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Scurvy
		Scurvy was at one time common among sailors, pirates and others who were on ships that were out to sea longer than perishable fruits and vegetables could be stored and by soldiers who were similarly separated from these foods for extended periods.
		Scurvy or subclinical scurvy is caused by the lack of vitamin C. In modern western society, scurvy is rarely present in adults, although infants and elderly people are affected.
		Scurvy is one of the accompanying diseases of malnutrition (other such micronutrient deficiencies are beriberi or pellagra) and thus is still widespread in areas of the world depending on external food aid.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Vitamin_C_deficiency (1219 words)

	eMedicine - Scurvy : Article by Kumaravel Rajakumar, MD
		Scurvy was the scourge of the sea explorers of the Renaissance era (16th-18th centuries).
		In 1650, Glisson observed the co-occurrence of scurvy in infants with rickets.
		The increased incidence of infantile scurvy during this era was attributed to the consumption of heated milk and proprietary foods deficient in vitamin C. In 1912, Holst and Frolisch induced and cured scurvy in guinea pigs through dietary modification.
	www.emedicine.com /ped/topic2073.htm (2347 words)

	Scurvy
		Scurvy is a condition caused by a lack of vitamin C (ascorbic acid) in the diet.
		Scurvy is very rare in countries where fresh fruits and vegetables are readily available and where processed foods have vitamin C added.
		Infants can develop scurvy if they are weaned from breast milk and switched to cow's milk without an additional supplement of vitamin C. Babies of mothers who took extremely high doses of vitamin C during pregnancy can develop infantile scurvy.
	www.healthatoz.com /healthatoz/Atoz/ency/scurvy.jsp (597 words)

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		As indicated above, scurvy results from a dietary deficiency of Vitamin C. Vitamin C is required for the activity of prolyl hydroxylase, which is responsible for the extensive hydroxylation of prolines in collagens.
		The value of lemons against scurvy was a commonplace known amongst seafarers for generations, but the fruit was only one of many remedies, good or bad, which neither the naval nor the medical world had any scientific method of sifting.
		Fortunately, there was a general understanding among sea officers that scurvy was a dietary disease, caused either by the presence of something harmful in the sailor's diet, or by the absence of something essential, and in either case curable by fresh victuals.
	www.med.uc.edu /departme/cellbiol/ecm.htm (540 words)

	Scurvy (vitamin C deficiency). DermNet NZ
		Scurvy is a condition characterized by general weakness, anaemia, gingivitis (gum disease), and skin haemorrhages caused by a prolonged deficiency of vitamin C (ascorbic acid) in the diet.
		Scurvy was often seen in sailors on long ocean voyages described from the 15th century onwards.
		The diagnosis of scurvy is primarily a clinical one, based on a dietary history of inadequate vitamin C intake and the signs and symptoms described below.
	www.dermnetnz.org /systemic/scurvy.html (692 words)

	The Danger of Scurvy
		Scurvy, also called vitamin C deficiency, is of the most serious diseases affecting teenagers today.
		It is caused by a dietary lack of vitamin C (ascorbic acid), a nutrient found in many fresh fruits and vegetables, particularly the citrus fruits.
		Scurvy is characterized by swollen and bleeding gums with loosened teeth, soreness and stiffness of the joints and lower extremities, bleeding under the skin and in deep tissues, slow wound healing, and anemia.
	www.monzy.com /scurvy (847 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: College Student Scurvy
		Scurvy is characterized by general lethargy, anemia, pain in the joints and muscles, impaired wound healing, gum disease, and skin hemorrhages.
		There have been real cases of scurvy in students brought on by their poor eating habits, but they occur far less frequently than the various tellings of the legend would have it.
		Scurvy is an illness that, though it belongs to another time, is still very much with us today even in affluent countries.
	www.snopes.com /college/horrors/scurvy.asp (1025 words)

	Scurvy home remedy- Symptoms of scurvy and scurvy treatment information
		Scurvy is, perhaps, the oldest known deficiency disease.
		Scurvy was widely prevalent in the 19th century among sailors on long voyages.
		Scurvy is caused by lack of vitamin C or ascorbic acid.
	www.home-remedies-for-you.com /remedy/Scurvy.html (792 words)

	scurvy - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Scurvy, disease of human beings caused by a prolonged deficiency of vitamin C, or ascorbic acid, in the diet.
		Ascorbic acid, needed by humans to prevent scurvy
		Ascorbic Acid, a food substance needed by humans to prevent scurvy, a disease of the gums, bones, and blood vessels, and to increase the body’s...
	ca.encarta.msn.com /scurvy.html (151 words)

	Scurvy - Uncyclopedia
		Scurvy is a dietary deficiency syndrome, caused by insufficient consumption of semen.
		This has led to a popular urban legend, promulgated even by some physicians, that a fictional substance known as "ascorbic acid" is the constituent of semen which scurvy sufferers lack.
		Contrary to popular belief, this acid has not been found in citrus fruits, and is most definitely not found in liver or broccoli.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Scurvy (241 words)

	eMedicine - Scurvy : Article by Anne Laumann, MBChB, MRCP(UK)
		The clinical manifestations of scurvy are primarily due to abnormal collagen synthesis resulting from a lack of vitamin C. Vitamin C is a cofactor required for the function of several hydroxylases.
		Scurvy is caused by a prolonged deficiency of vitamin C intake.
		The earliest radiologic manifestation of infantile scurvy is generally seen at the distal ends of the radii where fuzziness of the lateral aspects of the cortices is present with slight rarefaction of the neighboring cancellous bone.
	www.emedicine.com /derm/topic521.htm (2222 words)

	scurvy - screenplay / scriptwriting script writing tool
		It's a tool that lets you easily write screenplays or scripts in a simple text format, then scurvy will output them in the proper screenplay format.
		Scurvy can also import some RTF and Final Draft formats, as well as outputting/converting to a variety of formats as well.
		If you're using the vim editor then I have some syntax files that will do coloring of both scurvy input files (provided they end in.scr) and the basic screenplay output (provided it ends in.screen).
	marginalhacks.com /Hacks/scurvy (316 words)

	Scurvy
		Scurvy has been known since ancient times, but the discovery of the link between the dietary deficiency of ascorbic acid and scurvy has dramatically reduced its incidence over the past half-century.
		The incidence of scurvy in the pediatric population is very uncommon, and it is usually seen in children with severely restricted diets attributable to psychiatric or developmental problems.
		The signs of scurvy and hypertension resolved after treatment with vitamin C. The diagnosis of scurvy is made on clinical and radiographic grounds, and may be supported by finding reduced levels of vitamin C in serum or buffy-coat leukocytes.
	www.thedoctorsdoctor.com /diseases/scurvy.htm (573 words)

	Scurvy Dogs: Reviews
		"SCURVY DOGS takes elements that would be moderately funny on their own (off beat, pop culture humor from the 80s and 90s, monkey jokes, lyme disease) and throws them together with hilarious results."
		Scurvy Dogs is one of the funniest comics I've ever read, and issue two shows that the first issue wasn't a fluke."
		"Scurvy Dogs is a great humor comic...Boyd and Yount mix a flair for the bizarre with expert comic timing and a simple but deranged premise to create one of the finest, funniest first issues I've ever read."
	www.scurvy-dogs.com /ahoy/archives/000005.html (224 words)

	Amazon.com: Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentlemen Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail: ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Scurvy continued to decimate ships' crews, and Bown speculates that failure to arrest the disease had global repercussions and may have been the reason for Britain's defeat in the American Revolution.
		The plague of eighteenth-century seafarers was scurvy, the consequence of the lack of vitamin C in the everyday diet.
		And scurvy could hit even harder because many people only joined the navy because they were desperate after long winters of famine, which meant that they were already malnourished and thus very susceptible to scurvy.
	www.amazon.com /Scurvy-Mariner-Gentlemen-Greatest-Mystery/dp/0312313918 (2560 words)

	Scurvy (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Scurvy is nothing more than a serious deficiency of vitamin C. Although it's easily corrected with supplements, it can cause a number of alarming symptoms.
		Scurvy develops when the diet lacks adequate amounts of vitamin C. Certain conditions increase the body's demand for vitamin C and therefore increase the risk of deficiency.
		In infants, early symptoms of scurvy are irritability, loss of appetite, and failure to gain weight.
	www.healthsquare.com /mc/fgmc9047.htm (573 words)

	Medcyclopaedia - Scurvy
		In infants scurvy may develop if they are fed pasteurized or boiled milk over a long period of time (heating leads to disruption of the vitamin C molecule).
		Similar but less marked alterations may be evident in the ossification centres of the epiphyses of tubular bones and in the carpus and tarsus.
		Thickening of the provisional zone of calcification produces a radiodense shell around the ossification centre that is accentuated by central rarefaction owing to atrophy of the adjacent spongiosa (Wimbergers sign of scurvy).
	www.medcyclopaedia.com /library/topics/volume_iii_1/s/scurvy.aspx (300 words)

	Scurvy - WrongDiagnosis.com
		Detailed information about the causes of Scurvy including medication causes and drug interaction causes can be found in our causes pages.
		With a diagnosis of Scurvy, it is also important to consider whether there is an underlying condition causing Scurvy.
		Prevention information for Scurvy has been compiled from various data sources and may be inaccurate or incomplete.
	www.wrongdiagnosis.com /s/scurvy/intro.htm (328 words)

	Amazon.ca: Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentleman Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail: ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bown's fascinating biography of that maritime age tells of two doctors and Captain James Cook-all sailing against prevailing winds-and how their contributions led to a cure for a common mariners-disease of the time, scurvy.
		The name of the preventive and remedy -ascorbic acid-comes from the outdated word "antiscorbutic." With the voice of a storyteller, Dan Cashman tells of the unsanitary conditions of life at sea; details such as weevils in sailors' biscuits and corpses stored in French ships' bilges abound.
		It reads with all the gripping suspense of a well-written novel, while being meticulously researched to be historically accurate.
	www.amazon.ca /Scurvy-Mariner-Gentleman-Greatest-Mystery/dp/0887621309 (474 words)

	Scurvy Dogs
		Scurvy Dogs #1 Fearsome pirates try to carve out a living in a world where they don't belong — OURS!
		Captain Blackbeard and his crew set out for adventure and romance, but when their ship is impounded by the Coast Guard, they're forced to take on REAL jobs.
		Pirate mania sweeps the country, and suddenly, the Scurvy Dogs are famous!
	www.ait-planetlar.com /scurvy.shtml (349 words)

	Symptoms of Scurvy - WrongDiagnosis.com
		Note that Scurvy symptoms usually refers to various symptoms known to a patient, but the phrase Scurvy signs may refer to those signs only noticable by a doctor:
		When considering symptoms of Scurvy, it is also important to consider Scurvy as a possible symptom of other medical conditions.
		This signs and symptoms information for Scurvy has been gathered from various sources, may not be fully accurate, and may not be the full list of Scurvy signs or Scurvy symptoms.
	www.wrongdiagnosis.com /s/scurvy/symptoms.htm (274 words)

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