%0 Journal Article
%T Scurvy is Back
%A Claire Ann Callus
%A Peter Ferry
%A Samantha Vella
%J Archive of "Nutrition and Metabolic Insights".
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/1178638818809097
%X Scurvy, caused by vitamin C deficiency, first described by Hippocrates, is known to many as ¡®The Pirates¡¯ Disease¡¯. Although a disease rarely acknowledged in modern medicine, we present 2 cases of elderly gentlemen found to have scurvy, who improved significantly on treatment
%K Vitamin C
%K ascorbic acid
%K scurvy
%K nutritional deficiency malnutrition
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6249652/