We learned all about scurvy in both science and history glasses in grammar school!
Most people don’t think much of scurvy beyond using it as a piratical adjective and think the disease hasn’t been seen since that era. About all the science trivia most recall of it, if any, is the odd combo of us and guinea pigs being susceptible to it. Those of us who sought out historical tales of the long voyages of exploration, recall how devastating it can be. But, although I bet many Freepers fall in that group, government schooling these days looks down on such. The early changes of scurvy are subtle patterns of skin bruising, which patients think is ‘just a rash’ and which most physicians mistake for more modernistic scary rashes. At which point we Dermatologists tell them its the scary (fatal if never treated!) rash they’ve forgotten. Happily it’s the easiest fatal disease to fix. Some of these patients have been living on liquid calories, some have goofy food fetishes, but many are just old, set in their ways, and eating just those things they still like.