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The vitamin C (and vegetables and fruits containing this vitamin).
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he used white cedar bark and leaves
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because scurvy is a lack of vitamins in your bones so enough lemon juice should help it but maybe not cure it
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Sailors believed the touch of earth could cure scurvy before they realized that Vitamin C would prevent it.
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Why did someone in the 18 century had idea of giving sailors lime juice to cure scurvy?
because they are stupid
Why did tea made from and bark of the cedar tree cure scurvy?
The tea was high in Vitamin C, the missing nutrient.
Scurvy how can it be treated?
Scurvy can be healed by boiling cedar to make medicine. The Aboriginals taught Jaques Cartier how to heal scurvy. The aboriginals had limes that cured scurvy. After that sea captains knew how to cure scurvy and called limes: limeys. But now in this time we call them limes.
What disease did vitamin d cure for ancient sailors?
Scurvy? No, more like hunger, and vitamin D deficiency (from lack of exposure to the sun?). Ancient sailors struggled to get sufficient vitamin C, which is what led to scurvy.
