Question

Le Couteur and Burreson state that sailors ate mostly preserved foods such as dried meat and hardtack. What do they say this caused? A. weevil infestations B. uncontrolled fires C. the growth of mold and mildew D. a rise in cases of scurvy

Answer 1

D it caused a rise of scurvy which occurs when not enough vitamins are taken

Answer 2

The answer is: D. a rise in cases of scurvy.

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.