[Sca-cooks] Lemons in Middle English

[Terry Decker]

This is coincident with the date and location for James Lancaster (of the 
East India Company) dosing his crew with citrus juice.  My information says 
that was done just for his crew.  This raises the question of whether the 
cure was generalized for the whole of the East India Company or whether your 
source generalized and isolated incident.

Bear

> Scurvy was also mentioned:
>
> The English East India Company is mentioned as gathering oranges
> and lemons from Madagascar in 1601 which they turned into juice
> specifically for use against scurvy.
>
>
> Thorvald