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The 15 pages that link to Scurvy, each with the reason it gives.

• James CookRelated: Cook’s attention to diet helped limit scurvy during lengthy Pacific voyages.

• CollagenBroader topic: It demonstrates the consequences of inadequate collagen hydroxylation for blood vessels, gums, and wound repair.

• Vitamin CBroader topic: Its bleeding gums, bruising, and poor wound healing follow defective collagen formation.

• Ascorbic acidRelated: It is the characteristic disease prevented by adequate ascorbic acid intake.

• VitaminRelated: This classic deficiency disease helped establish that foods contain essential nutrients.

• CabbageRelated: Cabbage and preserved cabbage foods have served as vitamin C sources during shortages.

• RicketsCompared with: It can cause bone pain and growth disturbances, but its cause is defective collagen rather than mineralization.

• Albert Szent-GyörgyiRelated: Vitamin C’s ability to prevent scurvy established its nutritional significance.

• Franklin expeditionRelated: Scurvy was one proposed contributor to illness among the expedition’s crew.

• Juan Sebastián ElcanoRelated: The return voyage exposed Victoria’s crew to severe nutritional illness.

• Louis Antoine de BougainvilleRelated: Provisioning against scurvy was a central challenge of extended expeditions.

• James LindRelated: This was the disease Lind’s trial sought to treat.

• Exploration of the PacificRelated: Scurvy could undermine Pacific expeditions before effective prevention became routine.

• Pantothenic acidCompared with: Unlike pantothenic-acid deficiency, scurvy has a distinct cause and characteristic connective-tissue symptoms.

• Nutritional and Metabolic DiseasesBroader topic: It is a classic, specific disease caused by a single nutrient deficiency.