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Who was the person to get scurvy?

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Anonymous

8y ago
Updated: 11/19/2021

It's real hard to tell who it was, since scurvy was described by Hippocrates (c. 460 BC-c. 380 BC) in Ancient Greece, and herbal cures for scurvy have been known in many native cultures since prehistory.

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