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The Sick and Hurt Commissioners are credited with the eradication of scurvy from the Royal Navy by putting to use the ideas of Johann Bachstrom and James Lind, who believed lemons, limes or other citrus fruits could help prevent the disease. In his 1734 book Observationes circa scorbutum ("Observations on Scurvy"), Bachstrom wrote that:
In 1734, Leiden-based physician Johann Bachstrom published a book on scurvy in which he stated, "scurvy is solely owing to a total abstinence from fresh vegetable food, and greens; which is alone the primary cause of the disease", and urged the use of fresh fruit and vegetables as a cure. [49] [50] [51]
Jan Fryderyk or Johann Friedrich Bachstrom (24 December 1688, near Rawitsch, now Rawicz, Poland - June 1742, Nieswiez, now Nyasvizh, Belarus) was a writer, scientist and Lutheran theologian who spent the last decade of his life in Leiden.
In 1734, the Dutch writer Johann Bachstrom gave the firm opinion, "scurvy is solely owing to a total abstinence from fresh vegetable food, and greens." [162] [163] Scurvy had long been a principal killer of sailors during the long sea voyages. [164]
The term originates from the usage of limes by the British Navy to prevent scurvy. [citation needed] Pom, Pommy In Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, the term usually denotes an English person. [157] Pirata Argentine term for British people, meaning 'pirate' in English. Used before and during the Falklands conflict. [158]
B. Johann Bachstrom; Jens Baggesen; Honaji Bala; Narharidas Barhath; Domingos Caldas Barbosa; Ivan Barkov; Zenel Bastari; Florian Baucke; Izzatullah Bengali; Christoph von Graffenried, 1st Baron of Bernberg
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach; Johann Bachstrom; Ernst Gottfried Baldinger; Caspar Bartholin the Elder; Anton de Bary; Karl Adolph von Basedow; Emil Adolf von Behring
It was first charted by the British Graham Land Expedition, 1934–37, under John Rymill, and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1959 for Johann Bachstrom, the author in 1734 of a classic pamphlet recognizing scurvy as a nutritional deficiency disease and prescribing the necessary measures for its prevention and cure. [1]