Le Couteur and Burreson make reference to the cases of scurvy in poorly nourished sailors originated by the intake of dried meat and hardtack during the eighteenth century. In that respect, scurvy was a disease caused by the insufficiency of vitamin C, which generated inflamed bleeding gums and fissures of healed injuries.
the effect in the ordering of the paragraghs was to show a contrast. The contrast between the churches power now to how it was before. He uses the example that he has seen these churches before and how is it so focused on beauty and not worship. The following paragraph kind of agreeing with that idea and saying the church is powerless.
