The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-06-10
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]. SCurVy-Fresh Meat. Not
: Lime Juice. Cures II


unsanitary conditions imarinah,n
had no lime juice whatever. thu, "a. na
most entirely upon freshly Killed -" q
frozen blood. ana no case of srr.s- ~
Cured among them. In the FIRE, %
Of picked men, well housed. ven :. Nv
and with all possible means ear a-N IL
ing health adopted by those in aas.es.
taking the prescribed quantity az e..4aasS
daily Except in the case of .hs ~
crews when absent from the ~, sh
few wceksl. but who lived alrnos. ~
on preserved meat, had scurvy. We s.ass
the other hand. a party who hal, "a a.s
selected on account Of phvsira, az
who were cast upon the desola,a .s
OF Franz Josef Land with only ~. sss's
neceSsaries OF existence, who ~. ~
through nine months Of their life -
conditions OF much privation and ha.. a.
ana IN circumstances which would 49,
meet with The approval of any ,a,t.N.I
inspector VINO had no lime Juice, bs, =.
lived on freshly killed bear Mos, -
rus meat had no symptoms OF scuryv
Dr. Manson and Lieut.. Johansen -.
they left the Fran, had 10 spens ~
months including the winter Of lSs =.
NV on frederlck jackson island ~.
were forced TO live IN a rudely e,,... .aF
ca nut without any changes OF clo,h,,s
or poSSioiHties or washing, SO that nv.
SANITARY condition Was not only AZ 4.
toughest description, but thu w.. 90
sui'"p.e possible Tor health, and ta.,,,
the whole OF this time they haa ,s.k
vegetables whatsoever and NO, us ~ ''ess
lime juice. The only food thew ua,s =. ~
to use was fresh walrus meat ~ s ~
meat, which had been preserved .s sNs
by the cold. During this ent,rs -, ~
they ate no salted or timed me,,s ~
the bear meat and the walrus -. ~
II would freeze almost imrpaa,a,s,s =
being killed, would remain 49,. y
fresh. In consequence apparently - ~
purely fresh meat and in snI,a - ~
most tnsaritary conditions DR. Nss.aA
and Lieut.. Johensen passea ,ha -
winter almost constantly in the aars =,
without exercise. and VET sho-.s -
symptoms of scurvy whatsoeva, ~
Mr.. jackson. when living au.,. y
Samoyads on Waigatz island and m ~ ~
shaia Zemclskija Tundra In lSss ~, ~, ~
observed some striking facts as !. -
cause of scurvy. Among thoss ~ -
Samoyads. who invariably win,er ,, -
Waigatz, who never take vere,sh,.. 80 =
Know of lime juice, scurvy Is nns,a..
They live entirely upon fresh rs,ra...
meat. ON the other hand. amorv ~.
Samoyads. who In the autumn ,r,sss..
south with the Russian peasant ,rsa.s.
from the neighborhood of Yuvor s,,.s.
and live In common with them IN M. ~
tricts adjoining the large rivers IN Nor,s,
east Russia upon salted ash-.tha ~,
winter food there until the followins NJ
-scurvy is prevalent This Ash inysr,.A,s
Is tainted.
In 1893. when at Kharborova. saucv..
settlement on the Yugor straits sin NM.
sian priests. whose religion forbade ~,
TO eat reindeer or other such mests hi
hio"eu them To eat salted fish, were IN,
IN nut ny Siberiakof tthe wealthy miss
owner, TO pass the winter year or tvs
prior to Mr.. Jackson's visit. A smss
RUSSIAN peasant boy with whom he "a.
versed) was left 10 wait upon them. m
| priests lived almost exclusively ON ~
bread and sailed fish: the boy lived upos
similar food except that instead Of IN
| sailed fish he ate reindeer meat, Nom
| of them had any vegetables. In the sol
| lowing May, when the samoyads AnA
| peasant traders returned. they found thai
| all the six priests had died from scursy
I whereas the little boy who had livad una
| fresh meat and had not eaten ssllod "a
was alive and well, and had buria1 u
his late masters In tho snow. he heinl
the only living being in Kharborova h
the spring.
The view that scurvy Is essentially dua
| to poisoning by the ptomaines OF tainie'
animal food was propounded first by Prof
| Torup, OF Chris,iania. Confirming ikh
| view, DR.. George NJ. Robertson, OF tn
| Perth district asylum. relates case o
a woman who had become an innat
| chiefly owing to her malady having tatt'
the form of eating filth from pigs troughs
on arrival In the asylum she was fouhi
TO be suffering from spongy uicefAie'
| gums-in fact, from land seurvy. AZ
ultimately all the teeth. except the q
mines, fell out.