WE ALL FALL DOWN
Scurvy Affects Teeth and Gums.
Skeletal Remains from Ancient World Showing Effects of Scurvy.
Scurvy killed more than a million sailors between Columbus's transatlantic voyage and the rise of steam engines in the mid-19th century. The problem was so common that shipowners and governments assumed a 50% death rate from scurvy for their sailors on any significant voyage.
Sailors and passengers who sail across the oceans must ensure their diet contains enough Vitamin C to prevent scurvy.
Seafarers have suffered from scurvy for thousands of years. In the 16th and 18th centuries alone, an estimated 2 million sailors died of the disease, decimating entire ship crews. Vitamin C deficiency causes scurvy. Scurvy has dramatic and terrible symptoms. Over the period from 1500 to 1800, scurvy killed more sailors than all other diseases combined.
The Phoenicians were the best mariners in ancient times. It was they who developed the alphabet in our familiar form of A-B-C.
We believe the Phoenicians arrived in America from the Old World in 600 BC. Unsurprisingly, one of the first translations from the ancient Phoenician stones in the Mississippi Valley deals with scurvy.
All scholars worldwide are invited to comment on Brian Nettles' translation. Stone Number 32 from the John White Collection deserves to be examined as a genuine artifact requiring the best minds of our generation.
Death on Board from Scurvy.
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