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by allturtles
417 days ago
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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 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... |
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