Assertion: scurvy | /r/HasProperty | a disease of putrefaction
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text: The medical establishment ashore continued to be wedded to the idea that scurvy was a disease of putrefaction, curable by the administration of elixir of vitriol, infusions of wort and other remedies designed to 'ginger up' the system.
text: As bodies decomposed and putrefied, the fixed air within them theoretically escaped (scurvy being a disease of putrefaction).