The disease that decimated sailors is treated with fruit

For two centuries, sailors died in large numbers from a disease caused by vitamin C deficiency, better known as scurvy. This disease, which claimed lives on long sea voyages for years, could have been...

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Dva stoljeća su mornari masovno umirali od bolesti koju liječi obično voće, a lijek su otkrili pa zaboravili

Tokom velikih pomorskih putovanja skorbut je ubijao više mornara nego oluje i bitke zajedno. Lijek je bio jednostavan, svježe voće. Ipak, znanje o nje

22 Jul 2026

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