Chapter 189: Scurvy
When he was stranded in Diagara before, Wen Wen chatted with the medical mage in their family, and also learned that ordinary recovery spells are not too good for diseases, unless it is a very high-level targeted recovery spell, it can only work, and for the civilians of the Shadow Inheritance Country, it is impossible for them to spend money to hire a powerful medical mage to specialize in targeted recovery spells, so if they get sick, they can generally only be it. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
If you get through it, it's over, and if you can't get through it, you'll die.
And the sailor in front of him, whose wounds could not be healed by the recovery spell and could not coagulate on their own, coupled with the various signs on his body, mildly affirmed his condition one hundred and two percent.
"Scurvy, it's quite serious." Wen Wen pinched his arm, turned back to the people behind him and asked suspiciously, "Then again, don't you sailors who have been sailing on the sea all year round even know about scurvy?" ”
"Scurvy?" Hearing this term, Cuenca couldn't help but be stunned, "What's that?" ”
Wen Wen did not give him a detailed explanation, but carefully checked the situation of the sailor in front of him, in fact, from the moment this question was asked, Wen Wen already had the answer to this question in his heart.
Scurvy, also known as vitamin C deficiency, can cause symptoms in the crew and can even lead to death.
Between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries, the crews of the Western ocean-going fleets suffered from this terrible disease, whether it was Columbus in the Americas or Magellan in his orbit around the world.
Eventually, in the eighteenth century, a young English ship doctor named Lint discovered that only ordinary sailors could get scurvy, but not the ship's officers, including himself.
How can there be such a reason that a person who is an official must not get sick?
Eventually, Lint discovered the secret of the emergence of scurvy, that is, the average sailor had only bread and pickles per ton of food at sea, while the ship's officers had potatoes and cabbage sprouts to eat.
But another famous navigator, Captain Cook, by chance, learned of the report made by Dr. Lindy, and took a large amount of fruit with him on a voyage, and sure enough, none of his crew contracted this terrible disease, and when he returned to England, he reported the situation, and finally took it seriously.
Later, after the death of Dr. Lint, the British Navy began to provide their troops with lemon juice, which was able to dominate the seas in the 19th century, earning the title of "empire on which the sun never sets".
And now, these newcomers to the Iron Sail Fleet in front of Moderate are basically pirates, and a small number of them are young people of the new generation of the Iron Sail Country, to put it bluntly, these people have no experience in long-distance sailing.
But as a captain, Cuenca also got this disease, he still didn't understand.
Although Wen Wen has no experience in long-distance sailing, An You likes to eat fruits very much, so before boarding the Wind and Waves, he stocked a large number of apples and oranges in advance and threw them in the cabin where he and An You were.
"Open your mouth."
Standing up gently, he looked at the tall Cuenca in front of him and whispered, and under his standard physician tone, Cuenca obediently complied.
"You can't be wrong, it's scurvy." After motioning for Cuenca to shut up, he looked at him mildly and wonderingly, "Why do you even get this disease?" ”
"You haven't told me what that scurvy is."
"Then I'll just say it briefly." Gently coughed lightly, he continued, "Because you eat too few vegetables and fruits, it directly leads to the occurrence of this disease, and in severe cases, you will die, and now, you are all infected with this disease. ”
"Huh?!" The gentle words shocked everyone present, they looked at each other with a smile, and then they all looked nervously at the calm gentleness, and the captain of the ship, Cuenca asked aloud, "So serious?" Are you sick too? ”
"Me? Naturally, I didn't. ”
"For ...... Why? ”
"Because even though I'm on the boat, I eat fruit every day, and fruit is rich in vitamin C, so as long as I take vitamin C, I won't get this disease." Mildly glanced at Cuenca with disgust, "How can it be like you, in addition to dried meat and fish, it is sea cucumber, crab skin, skin and shrimp, it is strange that you can ingest vitamin C, as the admiral and captain of the Iron Sail Fleet, have you never encountered this disease?" ”
"I didn't ...... No, I usually stay at sea for five or six days at most, and then go back. Cuenca smiled embarrassedly and said, "It's the first time I've made such a long voyage like this, so I'm so nervous." ”
I almost forgot that these iron sail fleets with strong scientific and technological support are all sailboats, and it is their main mission to protect their home and defend the country.
"Don't sell cute, it's disgusting." Wen Wen waved his hand, stood up and said, "Take out the vegetables stored in the food cabin, the cooking class will make a meal of vegetables tonight, everyone eats them, and the condition should be relieved, and it will be the same in the days to come, just eat more vegetables." ”
After saying that, Wen Wen squeezed out of the cabin, and at this time, Cuenca, who had not spoken, suddenly reached out and grabbed him.
"What?"
"That...... That ......"
Looking at Cuenca's twisting and pinching appearance, goosebumps rose all over Wen Wen's body.
"Don't be so disgusting, if you have something to say, you can't do it."
"We don't have vegetables."
"Well, we didn't...... What? The reacting gentleness looked at Cuenca with a confused expression, "What's that?" We don't have vegetables? What's in the food storage tank?! ”
"It's all jerky."
"It's all jerky?!"
looked at the captain in front of him gently and frantically, and said speechlessly: "You captain, you are still a fart, I'll forget it." ”
"If you want to be, I'll give it to you."
"I'm just saying it, you still want to take it seriously!" Gently glared at the embarrassed Uncle Cuenca in front of him, sighed, and said helplessly, "I stored some fruit before I got on the boat, and let the cooking team go to me to get it for a while, and then give everyone a share to eat, although more than 600 people are gone, but something is better than nothing." ”