Assertion: scurvy | /r/HasProperty | a deficiency disease
Facets:
value: after all
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: In 1734 a Dutch physician named Johannes Bachstrom came up with the term antiscorbutic (“without scurvy”) and used it to describe fresh vegetables, thus becoming the first person known to suggest that scurvy might be a deficiency disease.
text: With a simple animal model for the disease in hand, it became a matter of running the correct experiments, and it was quickly established that scurvy was a deficiency disease after all.
text: Scurvy (N.Lat. scorbutus) is a deficiency disease that results from lack of vitamin C, which is required for correct collagen synthesis in humans.
text: However, Lind did not appreciate that scurvy was a deficiency disease.
text: A Norwegian team experiment­ing with guinea pigs, which, like humans, are unable to manufacture vitamin C, confirmed in 1907 that scurvy was a deficiency disease.