Re:Beer on Board in the Age of Sail
by allturtles on Thursday April 24, 2025 @10:55AM
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> Is the article wrong?
Yes. Or more to the point, it is uncritically repeating the medical theories of its eighteenth-century sources, which were wrong. See also [0], [1]. People had a really hard time figuring out how to stop scurvy, and the use of citrus as a remedy was not generally accepted until well into the nineteenth century.
> Does beer have vitamin C?
No.
> Does beer have something else that also cures Scurvy
Re:Beer on Board in the Age of Sail
by bluGill on Thursday April 24, 2025 @11:00AM
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Thanks for real links. I fall back to what I finished with: when someone shows me real science I will change my mind. Leaving the original comment for context only.
Yes. Or more to the point, it is uncritically repeating the medical theories of its eighteenth-century sources, which were wrong. See also [0], [1]. People had a really hard time figuring out how to stop scurvy, and the use of citrus as a remedy was not generally accepted until well into the nineteenth century.
> Does beer have vitamin C?
No.
> Does beer have something else that also cures Scurvy
No. Scurvy is vitamin-C deficiency.
[0]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12810402/
[1]: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2011/04/the-budweiser-di...