This deficiency is very adequately met by Fawcett and Lee's volume. Citrus Diseases and their Control. By Prof. Howard S. Fawcett. With Sections on Oriental Citrus Diseases by H. Atherton Lee.
A disease that once claimed ... Scurvy, caused by a vitamin C deficiency, plagued Renaissance era seamen who relied on a diet of nonperishable foods such as biscuits, salt beef, pork, cheese ...