scurvy

Basically, he puts it forward as an idea, but doesn't stress it as much as you think he might.

Now, in the meantime, they're coming up with some weird and wonderful answers to Scurvy, like burying men in the earth.

You got Scurvy and they buried you?

They buried you up to your head.

That seems like a double punishment, Scurvy Anne, being buried alive up to your head.

Yes.

Well, it was thought that that would make you healthier and help you to recover.

Can you tell our listeners where they can find your books, what their titles are and where they can find them?

Like rickets used to be blamed on a virus, right? But it's a vitamin D deficiency.

Scurvy used to be blamed on a virus, but it's a vitamin C deficiency.

There's always a cause.

I'm not saying that viruses don't exist.

Whenever someone asks us, "What are your favorite episodes?"

Scurvy's on top.

Scurvy still comes up.

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Yeah.

Well, now, Doc, you'd like a plate of greens every now and then, wouldn't you? Well, sure I would, but not enough to pay for the seeds.

You might get scurvy, Doc.

Scurvy, Chester, and I won't get it.

Wouldn't pay very much to buy them seeds from Mr. Jones.

Just a few pennies is all.

Can see a dozen most any morning laying around dead.

A good many are terribly afflicted with diarrhea and scurvy begins to take hold of some.

Scurvy is a bad disease and taken in connection with the former is sure death.

Some have dropsy as well as scurvy and the swollen limbs and body are sad to see.

To think that these victims have people at home, mothers, wives, and sisters who are thinking of them and would do much for them if they had the chance, little dreaming of their condition.

Some captured near Petersburg.

Don't know anything about exchange.

Scurvy and dropsy taking hold of the men.

Yeah, plague is fun.

Scurvy.

Yeah.

Scurvy's not really...

What do you call it? COVID.

We could have COVID.