Someone wrote in [personal profile] mousme 2007-01-29 05:08 am (UTC)

Yeah if the question is what did people do for vitamin c, then the answer is that meat is packed with the stuff. Humans and guinea pigs are the only mammals which don't produce their own vitamin c, all other mammals do. That's why scurvy was only ever a problem on ships, when there was no supply of fresh mammal meat available.

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