• @PugJesusOP
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    852 months ago

    Funny enough…

    1. Yes.

    2. The lime juice was meant as a cheaper alternative to lemon juice. And it wasn’t very effective, lmao. National militaries and sabotaging the health of their troops to save a buck - name a more iconic duo.

    • Hotdog Salesman
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      92 months ago

      It was cheaper in the sense of they imported from limes from the Carribean and lemons from India, which with no Suez canal is a pretty big difference. And at the same time they invented steam power, shortening voyages so the reduced effectiveness wasn’t noticed until longer voyages due to newer military doctrines occurred again

      • @PugJesusOP
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        42 months ago

        Well, the reduced effectiveness was noticed. It created significant uncertainty, funny enough, over the actual causes of scurvy, since apparently citrus fruit wasn’t enough, until more rigorous studies happened in the 20th century.

        • @[email protected]
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          22 months ago

          thats true, i took vitamin c like crazy when i was out of copper, it didnt do a thing. so i tried copper, was fine for a while, got worse again despite copper, then took vitamin c. went from looking like a corpse in looking merely a bit sick in 24 hours.

    • @[email protected]
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      -12 months ago

      “National militaries and sabotaging the health of their troops to save a buck - name a more iconic duo.”

      That literally sounds like america though

      • @PugJesusOP
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        72 months ago

        It’s, sadly, applicable to most militaries throughout history and the modern day.