• rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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    5 days ago

    some sort of nutritional deficiency

    Vitamin C is probably the most important one, considering that it was a common issue for age-of-sail sailors - after a couple of weeks at sea, they mostly had hard (probably whole wheat) bread, preserved meat, probably some preserved vegetables that got their vitamin c cooked out of them, water and usually some sort of alcoholic drink, and scorbut is AFAIK the most common nutritional deficiency issue they developed.

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      Yeah, I figure scurvy is probably most likely followed by some sort of issue with not enough fat, but I’m not a doctor.