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What was the disease called that sailors lacked vitamin c?
Scurvey
Who threaten sailors at sea?
When? Pirates, U-Boats, Submarines, Moby Dick, Scurvey
Why were sailors in the past so susceptible to scurvy?
Long voyages without a regular source of Vitamin C in their diet is to blame.
The past tense of susceptible?
The past tense of susceptible is susceptible. The word does not change its form in the past tense.
What is the past tense of susceptible?
The past tense of "susceptible" is "susceptibility."
Why scurvey called sailors disease?
Because in older times (Like over a hudred years ago) sailors got it more than land based people due to the lack of fruit and vegetables in their diet.
How was scurvey pervented?
Scurvy was the result of vitamin C deficiency. The British figured out that limes had vitamin C and gave them and lemons to their sailors, hence the nickname "Limey."
What type of disease ids scurvey?
what type of disease is scurvey
What are the symptoms of scurvey?
No
What portion of the population is most susceptible to domoic acid poisoning?
—Sailors. —Fisherman. —Young children.
Who uses the chronometer?
sailors from the past.
What are the causes of scurvey?
the source of scurvey is not having enough vitamin c in the diet , pirates got scurvey all the time as they usually only ate biscuits but one captain hered that lemons and limes have lots of vitamin c in so gave it to his crew solving the problem of scurvey
