Note 27 — Chapter II
Reading edition
Vessels were not then required, as they happily are now, to have on board a sufficient supply of lime juice, or other preventives against consequences of a salt diet. Hence the fatal ravages of scurvy in those times. The symptoms of this disease are described as—discoloured spots, swelled legs, extraordinary lassitude and dejection, sudden death resulting on the least motion or exertion of strength. See G. Anson’s Voyage, I. x.