How did Captain Cook prevent his crew from getting scurvy?
“Customarily, on ocean voyages lasting longer than three months, scurvy decimated the crew, and it was common practice to double overstaff in preparation for the toll of this nutritional deficiency disease. By the middle of the eighteenth century it was known how to prevent scurvy; James Cook was the first sea captain to put that knowledge into practical application, and he practiced those principles with such vivacity that on none of the three voyages did any man die of scurvy.” —Sailors & Sauerkraut (p.
