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Scurvy is a disease caused by a deficiency in vitamin C. This vitamin is found in a lot of green vegetables and fruit, but rapidly disappears with storage. The result is that people of the Middle Ages commonly got scurvy in the winter.

Scurvy had a number of symptoms, such as bleeding gums and mucus membranes, spots, depression, and eventually loss of teeth. But it is also generally debilitating and can easily lead to death.

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