Scurvy used in a sentence

Scurvy in a sentence as a noun

Ie, we know vitamin-c is needed because it causes scurvy.

This reminds me of how the British Navy forgot the cure to scurvy after 150 years.

Citrus fruits, which contain vitamin C, were known to prevent scurvy, but no one knew why.

... and as a result poor Bill has lived in total poverty, only to die of scurvy in a slum.

Even with 75% of the crew dead and 25% toothless and malnourished from scurvy and other ailments.

On the one hand, it means that you cannot sell a bottle of Vitamin C that says "will cure and prevent scurvy.

No one in the experimental group developed scurvy while 110 out of 278 in the control group died of scurvy.

Scurvy in a sentence as an adjective

Nevertheless, citrus juice was not fully adopted to prevent scurvy until 1865.

Consuming lead does not instantly turn someone into a criminal in the way that consuming vitamin C cures scurvy.

Considering the earliest signs of scurvy start at the one month mark, I don't consider suspicion of a 30 day trial to be overly cautious.

Do you think that the life, as envisioned by children, who want to eat only ice cream when they grow up, includes scurvy, diabetes and other effects of such a diet?

Consider that vitamin C was known to prevent scurvy, but then that knowledge was lost, and rediscovered later on. How much knowledge may be codified in ancient customs, and that we might have forgotten the foundations for that knowledge.

The article treats the belief in supplements entirely as a case of well-nourished people pursuing quack fixes, ignoring scientifically credible practices such as food fortification using iodine and folic acid, the widely-known connection between vitamin C and scurvy, the use of iron supplements to treat anemia, and the historical experience with real malnutrition.