[Sca-cooks] Lemons in Middle English

[Carole Smith]

So would you say from your reading that Capt. Lancaster knew that he had a scurvy cure with citrus or that he was trying to figure it out?  To my mind, if he didn't yet know what citrus would do, he was possibly endangering the crew on one ship only.
 
Cordelia Toser

James Prescott <prescotj at telusplanet.net> wrote:


Same voyage. Captain Lancaster, though in overall command of the
four ships, used the juices for his own crew only, which suggests
that it was not Company policy at the time of his voyage. It is
suggested that he was experimenting (in the event, at the expense
of the crews of the other three ships).


Thorvald


At 20:36 -0600 2005-02-07, Terry Decker wrote:
> 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
>

		
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