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IT is the general experience among arctic explorers that when they ‘live of the land’, scurvy never occurs. Stefansson1, who directed attention to this fact, cured three cases of scurvy with reindeer meat.
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HØYGAARD, A., RASMUSSEN, H. Vitamin C Sources in Eskimo Food. Nature 143, 943 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143943a0
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