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History of Vitamin C Deficiency and Malnutrition
Those sitting down to nutritious meals usually do not consider what would happen if fresh vegetables and fruit or vitamin-supplemented juices and cereals were not routinely available. Centuries ago, sailors experienced such a lack first-hand: swollen and bleeding gums, loose teeth, hemorrhaging under the skin, and slowed healing of wounds. What we now know as vitamin C was in short supply on most ships, and human bodies reacted by developing the condition known as scurvy. Death could, and often did, quickly follow, thousands of miles away from otherwise life-sustaining provisions.
Scurvy had long been the scourge of those who sailed for extended distances without fresh food and supplies, with the first clear-cut descriptions of the malady appearing in the medieval records of the European Crusades. Toward the end of the 15th century, scurvy was cited as the major cause of disability and mortality among sailors on long sea voyages. Although Danish mariners were long acquainted with the condition, and included lemons and oranges in their marine stores, it was not until 1753 that scurvy was recognized in the British medical community at large as directly related to dietary deficiency.
In 1769, William Stark, a young British physician, began a series of experiments on diet and nutrition, using himself as the experimental subject. After consuming only bread and water for 31 days, Stark added other foods to his diet one by one, including olive oil, figs, goose meat, and milk. In two months, Stark recorded that his gums were red and swollen, bleeding easily to the touch. Seven months later he died, possibly from scurvy, and likely from the cumulative effects of malnutrition. Stark’s diet was heavy on meat and starch, but devoid of fresh vegetables and citrus fruits.
Twelve years before Stark’s ill-fated experiments, Scottish physician James Lind, having observed the preventive and curative powers of citrus fruits and lemon juice during his years as a naval surgeon, wrote a treatise recommending their mandatory consumption by British sailors. By 1795, Lind’s advocacy had resulted in the issuance of lime juice to all naval vessels and the gradual elimination of scurvy within the entire British fleet. At the time, no one, including Lind, knew of the existence of ascorbic acid, which would eventually become commonly known as vitamin C.
It would take more years to pinpoint the scurvy-prevention substance responsible for maintaining the body’s connective tissues. That would take the meticulous work of a brilliant Hungarian-born researcher named Albert Szent-Györgyi, whose isolation and identification of vitamin C and discovery of the metabolic mechanism that enables its use within cells would be recognized with a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Contrast that to today's protocol-following, afraid-to-think-on-their-own docs...
I find the 'little' discoveries of the old days (before modern technology made it 'easy' to discover things) more impressive than the more technologic ones of today.
Dedicated Physicians of the Good Old Days...
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Speaking as one of them, you see the same kind of closed minds in the professional religious community.
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Closed minds have retarded progress in so many different fields, repeaters will waste too much ammunition for one...
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begs the question of where open minds have gotten us . . .
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Kind of different definitions of 'closed' and 'open' so it gets confusing semantically.
Back to the original topic though - I also remember the case where the doctor intentionally ingested some bacteria to prove they caused ulcers - they did....!
Kind of different definitions of 'closed' and 'open' so it gets confusing semantically.
Back to the original topic though - I also remember the case where the doctor intentionally ingested some bacteria to prove they caused ulcers - they did....!
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Some time ago I read a "quip" that says ;
"The human mind is like a parachute, both only function when open".
The internet has created great opportunities to increase knowledge and has also apparently achieved the opposite as well. It spreads misinformation too easily.
"The human mind is like a parachute, both only function when open".
The internet has created great opportunities to increase knowledge and has also apparently achieved the opposite as well. It spreads misinformation too easily.
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the operative verb between closed and open is <to discern>
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open minds believe there are 57 genders, and write that into the cfrs
open minds believe matter has always existed and was never created
critical thinking skills and logic does not affect these open minds
truth is a spiritual matter. koine greek puts it this way>
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it's an ancient proposition that lies are not truth, and truth is no lie
it makes the [medical] tyrants transparent anti-christs, q.v.
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open minds believe there are 57 genders, and write that into the cfrs
open minds believe matter has always existed and was never created
critical thinking skills and logic does not affect these open minds
truth is a spiritual matter. koine greek puts it this way>
. .
it's an ancient proposition that lies are not truth, and truth is no lie
it makes the [medical] tyrants transparent anti-christs, q.v.
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excellent men with excellent minds produce excellent benefits for the rest of us