St. Louis, victim of scurvy, five centuries before a Scottish doctor in the British Royal Navy discovered it could be prevented by eating citrus.https://twitter.com/SmithsonianMag/status/1143821330241994754 …
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Ahead of his time, in medical innovations: George Washington, who had the Continental Army inoculated vs smallpox. This was common in European armies, but Washington had to overcome political resistance in Congress, lobbied Virginia to change its law:https://www.thedailybeast.com/george-washington-the-first-vaxxer …
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There are many questions of politics & society in 2019 on which we do not know George Washington's thinking, but there is no doubt that Washington today - as in 1777 - would have been a vigorous supporter of mandatory vaccinations.pic.twitter.com/g7Cz3PyawW
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The dark side of “Farm to table” living in non-tropical climates...
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“one of the strangest things about the history of scurvy (and many other vitamin-deficiency diseases) is that people kept figuring out cures and then forgetting them.” Not unlike the current vaccination issues.
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Yes, that's correct. They switched from lemon juice to limes by the mid-19th century.
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