How To Use Scurvy In A Sentence

So it was either scurvy-flavored hookers and gin-soaked alkies, or nothing at all. PAUL IS UNDEAD
I lately had occasion to justify an action to a man," went on Clowes, "but, no, the scurvy fellow would put no faith in my words, insisting that the person I sought to clear was covinous and tricky, and wholly unworthy of trust. Janice Meredith
Oh, and further to Lisa's comment, neither is a morphew a "scurvy blister". Languagehat.com: OLD DISEASE NAMES.
Picrochole thus in despair fled towards the Bouchard Island, and in the way to Riviere his horse stumbled and fell down, whereat he on a sudden was so incensed, that he with his sword without more ado killed him in his choler; then, not finding any that would remount him, he was about to have taken an ass at the mill that was thereby; but the miller's men did so baste his bones and so soundly bethwack him that they made him both black and blue with strokes; then stripping him of all his clothes, gave him a scurvy old canvas jacket wherewith to cover his nakedness. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1
In Java, poultices of the herb are applied to old sores, scurvy, and other skin conditions.

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He treated his scorbutic patients with a mixture of plant and vegetable juices made from water cress, brooklime, scurvy grass, all herbs rich in ascorbic acid.
We are at the bottom of a chalk-pit, Mr Charles," answered Tom, "the fellows have played us a somewhat scurvy trick, but I cannot but say that it was better than sending us over the cliff and breaking our necks; howsomdever, the sooner we get out of it the better as I'm wet to the skin, and would like to take a brisk walk homeward to get dry. Washed Ashore The Tower of Stormount Bay
It took many years before it was realized that adding citrus fruits to the diet of men at sea would keep scurvy at bay. The Vitamin Fact Finder
The most arresting of these was a frozen landscape of pebbles with raw shrimps and strewn with wild beach plants such as sea arrowgrass, St. John's wort, Portulak and the unfortunately named scurvy-grass. Noma's Spectrum of Flavors
Vitamin C deficiency can ultimately lead to scurvy.
It transpired that the child had weak bones caused by scurvy and certain dietary intolerances.
Lassa fever malaria measles meningitis rift valley fever scarlatina maligna scarlet fever scurvy smallpox sweating sickness toxic shock syndrome tularemia typhoid fever typhus typhus complicated by bubonic plague/dysentery/yellow fever yellow fever complicated by scurvy Sometimes, I love being wrong - The Panda's Thumb
Once the rainy season began in April, malaria, yellow fever, typhoid and scurvy began to take their toll.
This is an extremely low level, and it represents only the amount needed to prevent health problems such as scurvy, a vitamin deficiency disease.
Amos Wentworth is the only member of the party without scurvy. “I am only a wild girl, and I am afraid of the world....”
Teheran, where I worked in 1952 and 1953 on rabies, plague, arbovirus infections, scurvy and other epidemic disease in Iran, D. Carleton Gajdusek - Autobiography
A few dwarf birches unfold their leaves amid the rocks; a few sub-arctic willows hang out their catkins beside the swampy runnels; the golden potentilla opens its bright flowers on slopes where the evergreen _Empetrum nigrum_ slowly ripens its glossy crow-berries; and from where the sea-spray dashes at full tide along the beach, to where the snow gleams at midsummer on the mountain-summits, the thin short sward is dotted by the minute cruciform stars of the scurvy-grass, and the crimson blossoms of the sea-pink. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
Apart from these inborn defects, deprivation of ascorbic acid (vitamin C) at any time of life interferes with a step in collagen synthesis; the resulting bleeding, bruising, and poor healing are part of the picture of scurvy.
As for food, this island produces none; nor is there any vegetable upon it but cellery, which grows here in abundance, and is of great use to us, the men being in general very much troubled with the scurvy. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 17 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
He sat up suddenly, his muscular tensity increasing the hurt of the scurvy. FINIS
During our stay in the Sound, we were plentifully supplied with fish, procured from the natives at a very easy rate; and, besides the vegetables our own gardens afforded, we found every where plenty of scurvy grass and cellery, which I caused to be dressed every day for all hands. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14
Biosynthesis, above), a scurvy-prone species like Man, had a tendency to develop damage to the aorta, low HDL cholesterol and high total cholesterol, in a manner akin to typical human heart disease, under suboptimal vitamin C nutriture. Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
Following his discovery of vitamine as the preventative substance to beri - beri, Funk had outlined a theory of "avitaminoses" as the responsible cause of several other types of diseases, including scurvy, rickets, pellagra, and beri-beri. The Vitamine Manual
They were utterly appalling with their rotten or missing teeth, tangled, matted hair, and yellowing scurvy eyes.
His body was ridden with disease - beriberi, dysentery and scurvy - and his doctor's prognosis was grim.
If it be within the [1075] body, and not putrified, it causeth black jaundice; if putrified, a quartan ague; if it break out to the skin, leprosy; if to parts, several maladies, as scurvy, &c. Anatomy of Melancholy
Once the rainy season began in April, malaria, yellow fever, typhoid and scurvy began to take their toll.
Disease is rife and diet related illnesses such as scurvy are evident everywhere.
You jacknape, give-a dis letter to Sir Hugh; by gar, it is a challenge: I vill cut his troat in de Park; and I vill teach a scurvy jack-a-nape priest to meddle or make. Act I. Scene IV. The Merry Wives of Windsor
And finally, there do be help available for ye landlubbers and scurvy dogs who can't talk like Pirates.
Presumably these poor malnourished souls are therefore more likely to get scurvy and rickets - or to be stuffed up a chimney. Times, Sunday Times
It took many years before it was realized that adding citrus fruits to the diet of men at sea would keep scurvy at bay. The Vitamin Fact Finder
The local Atollers are about to put Costner to death, thinking he's a spy, when they're attacked by the movie's piratical villains, the Smokers, led by the scurvy, baldpated Dennis Hopper. 'Waterworld': It Floats
Dam supposed at first that it was a question of scurvy, i.e. a deficiency of vitamin C, but found, on continued investigation, that neither this nor any other known vitamin, nor cholesterin, could prevent or check the hemorrhagic tendency in the laboratory animals. Physiology or Medicine 1943 - Presentation Speech
I observe that the physicians in this country pay no regard to the state of the solids in chronical disorders, that exercise and the cold bath are never prescribed, that they seem to think the scurvy is entirely an English disease; and that, in all appearance, they often confound the symptoms of it, with those of the venereal distemper. Travels through France and Italy
Stefansson demostrated that fresh, lightly cooked meat contains an antiscorbutic a substance that prevents scurvy, which is lost when meat is cooked to much. Odds and ends | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
Then, in the bungling hurry of fitting out, the hulls of several vessels were left foul, which made them dull sailers; while nearly all the holds were left unscoured, which, of course, helped to propagate the fevers, scurvy, plague, and pestilence brought on by bad food badly stowed. The Great Fortress : A chronicle of Louisbourg 1720-1760
Our sallow skin and lean, ravenous eyes (so suggestive of scurvy) give us away.
The study of rickets has already progressed to the stage of calculating rickets-producing diets and the methodology is identical with that for scurvy but this phase of testing still lacks evidence of an antirachitic vitamine and in that uncertainty it is hardly worth while to elaborate these diets here. The Vitamine Manual
Of the six deaths on the long voyage, only one was from illness, and none from scurvy. VOYAGES OF DELUSION: The Search for the North West Passage in the Age of Reason
A scurvy, vermiform scug with a serpentine twinkle in his solitary eye. On writing by stephen king
Captain James Cook is widely renowned as an explorer, pioneering navigator and preventer of scurvy.
Scurvy is still seen, very occasionally, among old people living alone who neglect their diet.
Cook did, for example, but other captains didn't and it was an imperfectly understood thing, that you had to have antiscorbutics in the diet otherwise you got scurvy.
If there had been TV reporters and satellite uplinks on Columbus' voyage, most of the coverage would have dealt with scurvy and the lack of an exit strategy.
In 1747 the British naval surgeon James Lind conducted experiments on antiscorbutic substances - that is, those able to prevent scurvy.
In the springy short turf along the coast grow species including sea pink, spring squill, bird's foot trefoil, sea campion, scurvy grass and sheep's bit which also transform some stretches of cliff into colourful ` hanging gardens’.
Now, however, the combined effects of scurvy, anemia and exhaustion kept him asleep twenty hours out of the day.
Overt vitamin deficiency diseases, such as pellagra or scurvy, are uncommon in persons who consume a typical North American diet.
Now, however, the combined effects of scurvy, anemia and exhaustion kept him asleep twenty hours out of the day.
Modern medicine categorizes diarrhea as a symptom of a disease, such as scurvy, typhoid, malaria, and dysentery, or as a symptom of indigestible substances in the intestines.
This was an attempt to replace all those nutrients I suspect I have not been getting from raro and cheese toasties, after the discovery scurvy was not just for sailors.
The third, the so-called antiscorbutic vitamine because of its action as preventative and cure for scurvy, is found in certain fruits and vegetables. Northern Nut Growers Association, Report Of The Proceedings At The Tenth Annual Meeting. Battle Creek, Michigan, December 9 and 10, 1919
After witnessing scurvy's dire effects, naval surgeon James Lind decided to do something about it.
Ascorbic acid/vitamin C. Prolonged deficiency can result in scurvy, poor wound healing and bleeding gums.
Mortality among women and small children had increased by 50 per cent and hunger-related diseases such as rickets, scurvy, and tuberculosis were endemic.
Even scurvy land lubbers can talk like a pirate an’ not be called a stinkin’ bilge rat.
a scurvy trick
Gilbert Blane and Thomas Beddoes, highly esteemed authorities on scurvy in the 18th century, rightly doubted that there was any antiscorbutic virtue in malt.
In the eightieth year of her age she was seized with an inward burning fever, which wasted her insensibly by its intense heat; at the same time an imposthume was formed in her lungs; and a violent and most tormenting scurvy, attended with a corroding hideous stinking ulcer, ate away her jaws and mouth, and deprived her of her speech. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
It took many years before it was realized that adding citrus fruits to the diet of men at sea would keep scurvy at bay. The Vitamin Fact Finder
It is reported of the Prophet that, when anyone complained to him of a pain in the head or legs, he would bid him be cupped and after cupping not eat salt food, fasting, for it engendereth scurvy; neither eat sour things as curded milk408 immediately after cupping. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
When they left after a few weeks, the rest, recreation and fresh fruit having cured the crews' scurvy, they were heaped with presents.
Call me by that scurvy name one more time, and ye'll be walking the plank, I swear it!
The spas, also, were claimed to cure ‘dropsy, jaundice, scurvy, greensickness and other distempers not to be mentioned’.
She works at St. Veronica's hospital, lives nearby at the home of a Mrs. Quoad, a lady widowed long ago and since suffering a series of antiquated diseases-greensickness, tetter, kibes, purples, im-posthumes and almonds in the ears, most recently a touch of scurvy. Gravity's Rainbow
The plague, pneumonia, pleurisy, tuberculosis, smallpox, scurvy, the black lung, the yeasty oesophagus, the mildewed mouth; call it what you want just don't call it the common cold.
That was a scurvy trick to play on an old lady.
Further, he supposed that, just as all the constituents of proteins (i.e. amino acids) belong to the same chemical class, so would the organic trace nutrients whose deficiencies were being envisioned as the causes of diseases such as pellagra and scurvy, in addition to beriberi. The Nobel Prize and the Discovery of Vitamins
That's right, it was the CD release party for those lovable coots, The Scurvy Pirates.
Low tide exposes many characteristic saltmarsh plants that provide a vegetarian menu, which is equally vital for the birds, including sea arrowgrass, scurvy grass and sea lavender.
That was a scurvy trick to play on an old lady.
And you didn't get scurvy? Times, Sunday Times
He got stuck in the ice near what is now Quebec city and spent the winter there, saved from scurvy by the Amerindians who taught them how to make thuya infusions… A first attempt at a settlement was made in 1641, by about 30 people, but that ended up in disaster, because they nearly all died from the harsh winter. Unprecedented Warmth in Sweden « Climate Audit
She works at St. Veronica's hospital, lives nearby at the home of a Mrs. Quoad, a lady widowed long ago and since suffering a series of antiquated diseases-greensickness, tetter, kibes, purples, im-posthumes and almonds in the ears, most recently a touch of scurvy. Gravity's Rainbow
– In the north, scurvy-grass, navelwort and primroses. Try Anything Twice
He treated his scorbutic patients with a mixture of plant and vegetable juices made from water cress, brooklime, scurvy grass, all herbs rich in ascorbic acid.
Vitamin C deficiency can ultimately lead to scurvy.
The plague, pneumonia, pleurisy, tuberculosis, smallpox, scurvy, the black lung, the yeasty oesophagus, the mildewed mouth; call it what you want just don't call it the common cold.
The men…in quest of musk-oxen, caribou, and Arctic hare: for Peary, who never had a single case of scurvy on any of his expeditions, fully appreciated the value of fresh meat as an antiscorbutic. Are we meat eaters or vegetarians? Part II | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
And you didn't get scurvy? Times, Sunday Times
As we now know, oranges and lemons (and many other fruits and vegetables) are excellent sources of vitamin C, and scurvy is the disease resulting from severe vitamin C deficiency.
Presumably these poor malnourished souls are therefore more likely to get scurvy and rickets - or to be stuffed up a chimney. Times, Sunday Times
The oily burst of flavor sent fumes up the back of my throat that made my eyes water, but they did cleanse my tongue of the taste of grease and scorch, and would, with the charlock leaves, maybe be sufficient to ward off scurvy. Dragonfly in Amber
If these fumes also cause you cancer, scurvy, chloracne, and gout, all the more so. The Volokh Conspiracy » Kay Hymowitz’s Response to Her Libertarian Critics:
Of the six deaths on the long voyage, only one was from illness, and none from scurvy. VOYAGES OF DELUSION: The Search for the North West Passage in the Age of Reason
During their rare landfalls sailors would gather any edible green plants, of which several species became known as ‘scurvy grass’.
Avast, ye scurvy dogs, Kerry will swing from the highest yardarm!
But this vitamin was previously called the antiscorbutic vitamin on the ground that the lack there of caused the disease of scurvy, so much dreaded by the polar explorers of earlier times. Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1937 - Presentation Speech
Sour-crout was much more to his taste as a preventive of scurvy, and in 1777, at the request of The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore
Cook was referring to the fact that Tupaia refused malt, portable soup and all the other remedies against scurvy, and that Green's addiction to drink was precipitating scorbutic symptoms.
Their absence is probably responsible for certain diseases, such as beriberi, scurvy, and possibly pellagra, as well as much ill health of a less definite sort. How to Live Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science
Hugh; by gar, it is a shallenge: I will cut his troat in dee park; and I will teach a scurvy jack-a-nape priest to meddle or make. The Merry Wives of Windsor
When was the last time that you met an American-born person suffering from rickets, scurvy, beriberi, pellagra, or any other disease caused entirely by malnutrition.
Dr. McDonald, assistant surgeon aboard HMS Terror — my counterpart there as it were — has theories that heavily salted food is not as efficient and antiscorbutic as fresh or nonsalted Victuals, and since the regular seamen aboard both ships prefer their Salted Pork to all other meals, Dr. McDonald worries that the heavily salted birds will add little to our Defenses against Scurvy. The Terror
Also, with tea made from spruce needles, with concoctions brewed from the inner willow bark, and with sour and bitter roots and bulbs from the ground, they dosed his scurvy out of him, so that he ceased limping and began to lay on flesh over his bony framework. LIKE ARGUS OF THE ANCIENT TIMES
Church — I thought that this scurvy scampish knave might show them the way to the place he mentioned, unless his courage failed him. Lorna Doone
Like scurvy or pernicious anaemia, he puts it down to nutritional deficiencies in the modern diet: the lack of the essential vitamin B17.
Captain James Cook is widely renowned as an explorer, pioneering navigator and preventer of scurvy.
Once the rainy season began in April, malaria, yellow fever, typhoid and scurvy began to take their toll.
Edison's father Eucalyptus once remarked that if Lulu succumbed to her scurvy pox no one would even know but for the lessening of her complaints for hard tack and goat milk.
He lost all but one of his six ships, and two thirds of the crews he shipped (700 survived out of an original complement of 2000), most of them to scurvy.
It took many years before it was realized that adding citrus fruits to the diet of men at sea would keep scurvy at bay. The Vitamin Fact Finder
A deficiency of vitamin C causes a disease called scurvy.
Newbies from elsewhere, even though they have to learn the scurvy trade from scratch, at least don't have to shed bad journalistic habits.
The Chinese had discovered much earlier, around the 5th century ad, that scurvy at sea could be avoided by carrying live ginger plants on board junks.
Time to splice yer mainbrace, stow yer bilge, avast yer scurvy dog.
So it's a little bit different to the sort of classic nutritional deficiency diseases, like scurvy, it seems to be slightly more complicated than that.
To complicate matters, most men suffered from multiple diseases, including dysentery, typhoid, scurvy, and pneumonia or other respiratory ailments.
They just sit there, keelhauling any scurvy landlubber who ventures to walk on the rocks barefoot
If scurvy didn't set in first, the thiamine deficiency known as beriberi might be deadly. Slate Magazine
Or a crookback, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken. The Scarlet Tanager and the Sparrows
Lemon juice is probably the best of all antiscorbutics, being almost a specific in scurvy.

How To Use Scurvy In A Sentence

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