> Limes had yet to be discovered or something "In the 1497 expedition of Vasco da Gama, the curative effects of citrus fruit were already observed and were con

> Limes had yet to be discovered or something "In the 1497 expedition of Vasco da Gama, the curative effects of citrus fruit were already observed and were confirmed by Pedro Álvares Cabral and his crew in 1507. ... In 1614, John Woodall, Surgeon General of the East India Company, published The Surgion's Mate as a handbook for apprentice surgeons aboard the company's ships. He repeated the experience of mariners that the cure for scurvy was fresh food or, if not available, oranges, lemons, limes, and tamarinds. ... It was not until 1747 that James Lind formally demonstrated that scurvy could be treated by supplementing the diet with citrus fruit, in one of the first controlled clinical experiments reported in the history of medicine." [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scurvy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scurvy