Assertion: scurvy's vitamin c | /r/CapableOf | cure scurvy
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text: During the Age of Exploration, sailors on long ocean voyages often contracted Scurvy, as food supplies quickly spoiled, reducing diets to salted beef (though in many cases fresh meat has enough Vitamin-C to prevent or cure Scurvy), dried grains, or in desperate situations, anything that could be eaten.
text: And so, it's quite misleading to say that Lind discovered vitamin C cured scurvy when 1) fruits/vegetables curing/preventing scurvy were known for centuries before Lind and 2) vitamin C wasn't discovered until centuries after he published what people had known for hundreds of years in the first place.