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" ... A pirate video game ought to be fun. You should feel like a scurvy sea dog on a rambunctious, bawdy voyage into unknown waters where mystery and adventure await. Sea of Thieves fails on all counts, offering up players an empty shell of a game. ... "
" ... Any modern-day Massachusetts resident can attest to the brutality of a New England winter, but the pilgrims were thoroughly unprepared. Diseases such as scurvy and pneumonia weakened a large number of settlers, and the freezing temperatures finished many of them off. By autumn’s start, close to half of the pilgrims had died. Though Plymouth Colony was off to a gruesome start, the town’s scenic waterfront stands today as one of Massachusetts’ most prominent tourist attractions. ... "
" ... Essentially, what happens in scurvy is that insufficient vitamin C disrupts normal formation of bone. Because scurvy also affects blood vessel walls, they are prone to break or hemorrhage during movements like chewing and even looking around. Bone is a living tissue, and it tries to respond to the hemorrhaging by becoming more porous or by creating new bone. The porous lesions Pitre and colleagues found on the child's skull along with the new bone formation on the leg bones are therefore strongly suggestive of scurvy. This child "may be the first and, thus far, the earliest differentially diagnosed case of subadult scurvy recognized from an ancient Egyptian context," they write. ... "
" ... Rum had one other advantage. It mixed well with the daily dose of lime juice that was doled out to British sailors to prevent scurvy. Although that practice did not start until the 18th century, well after the adoption of the daily rum ration, it provided an additional reason to continue the practice. ... "