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- 2018
Scurvy is BackKeywords: Vitamin C, ascorbic acid, scurvy, nutritional deficiency malnutrition Abstract: 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
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