Meanings of suffer from scurvy in English

In Plymouth, Harrington suffered from scurvy, and at last he became insane.

By this time I had made the unpleasant discovery that I was suffering from scurvy.

The second mate said that those suffering from scurvy would, now have an opportunity of being cured.

Experts have suggested that may have been a rictus smile, or evidence that the man had suffered from scurvy.

Many who were suffering from scurvy got well when the Lyon arrived from England, bringing store of juice of lemons.

One of the boys belonging to the schooner was brought to the camp for medical treatment, as he was suffering from scurvy.

Of the crew barely a dozen were left; and of the Chinamen not more than fifty, and all of them were suffering from scurvy.

Wallis and Byron had anti-scorbutics, but they suffered from scurvy; Furneaux, sailing with Cook in the second voyage, under precisely similar circumstances, suffered from scurvy.

They were the "treatments" given to six pairs of sailors suffering from scurvy aboard HMS Salisbury in 1747 by Royal Navy physician, James Lind.

"These vegetables may be the means of preserving our lives, for without them we should have run a great risk of suffering from scurvy."