scurvy
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Cases include electrocution, drowning, overdose, scurvy, sickle cell anemia, a nail in the chest, a fastball in the eye and gallstones, with all the personal drama one expects from a hospital show.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2025
"A diet like this over weeks would lead to 'hidden hunger', increasing the risk of diseases like anaemia and scurvy" he said.
From BBC • Jul. 25, 2025
Early white settlers, according to the Oregon Encyclopedia, would eat cranberries as a source of vitamin C to prevent scurvy, “and the berry’s naturally waxy coating allowed for long keeping.”
From Seattle Times • Nov. 18, 2023
For decades, historian Kenneth Carpenter writes, protein was considered the sole nutrient for human health despite emerging knowledge that fruits, vegetables, and milk eased conditions like scurvy and rickets.
From National Geographic • Nov. 9, 2023
Undoubtedly older heads than this boy’s had egged him on to this wretched, scurvy trick, but Mr. Lyte had no wish to go into the matter beyond the recovery of his own property.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
