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antiscorbutics
n. (plural of antiscorbutic English)
Usage examples of "antiscorbutics".
A far less keen-sighted man than Jack Aubrey could tell from half a mile that they were carrying not antiscorbutics but some such creature as a sloth or a wombat.
In this ship, where there is often dancing on the forecastle, and stage-plays, and an excellent band, we have almost no sickness: in the three ships I have mentioned, where the diet, the wind-sails and the antiscorbutics are exactly the same, the surgeons have their hands full.
It was one of their best antiscorbutics, and was of course a prime factor in their use of "sour krout," pickling, etc.
Scurvy wasn't something the IMC normally had to worry about, but it was just as lethal as it had ever been for humans deprived of antiscorbutics.