If you haven't read Maciej Ceglowski's brilliant blog post from a couple months back  on the history of scurvy, you should go do it right now.

He got curious when reading about how Scurvy was a problem on so many of the Artic/Anartic expiditions at he beginning of the 20th century.  Wait, scurvy?  Yes, scurvy.

Now, I had been taught in school that ( Read more... )