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South Pole Race: When the Limeys Get Scurvy

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

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The Symptoms of Scurvy

There seems to be an unknown factor here, somewhere. We'll never know quite how significant scurvy was among all the afflictions they faced. All we can do is look at scurvy appearance in polar expedition after polar expedition and then draw our own conclusions. Here's doctor wilson. On the sixteenth of february, evans collapsed, sick and giddy and unable to walk, even by the john ski. So we camped. The next day, we had gone a good part of the way when evans found his ski shoes coming off. He was allowed to readjust but it happened again and then again. And so the four skied away from

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