Assertion: scurvy | /r/CreatedBy | eat­ing contaminated food
Facets:
value: with no scientific basis
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Lord Lister, who specialised in antisep­tic procedures (and whose name was immortal­ised in a brand of mouthwash), opined, with no scientific basis, that scurvy was caused by eat­ing contaminated food, and by the end of the century the hot money was on this theory.