You may be right about the dates, I was going from memory so could be mixing up my sources. The part about doctors not being aware of vitamin c deficiency as a

You may be right about the dates, I was going from memory so could be mixing up my sources. The part about doctors not being aware of vitamin c deficiency as a cause for scurvy definitely rings true for one story I read about a south pole expedition EDIT: found the story here https://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm https://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm