Assertion: scurvy | /r/HasProperty | owing
Facets:
value: totally
type: DEGREE
value: to greens
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: solely
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: In 1734, the Dutch writer Johann Bachstrom gave the firm opinion that "scurvy is solely owing to a total abstinence from fresh vegetable food, and greens.
text: Credit for linking vegetables to curing scurvy should actually be given to a Dutch writer, Johannes Bachstrom (whose work Lind did reference in his Treatise), who had concluded that scurvy "is totally owing to a total abstinence from fresh vegetable food, and greens; which alone is the primary cause of the disease".