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 …
Yes, that's correct. They switched from lemon juice to limes by the mid-19th century.
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That switch undermined the entire project as limes lack enough vitamin C, but it mostly didn’t matter because the introduction of steam power made it irrelevant, a tragic exception being Scott’s Antarctic Expedition
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