Kayveeh said:

There's a very good example of a replacement therapy with shoddy results.

Good man for remembering that one.

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TimOkay pointed out:

Yeah, I thought so too.

Forgot to mention that.

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It is interesting that one can come across the history of "treatment" for scurvy told by a homeopath - in the Autumn 2003 issue of "Health and Homeoapthy" issued by Faculty of HOmeopathy in UK, p. 27.

Quote:
"In 1553, Admiral Richard Hawkins reported to the Admiralty that, during his years at sea, 10,000 seamen had died of scurvy under his command. He also reported that oranges and lemons cured the condition completely and he presented a number of anecdotal cases to prove the point. He was completely ignored. Then James Lind, the Edinburgh naval physician, wrote a paper in 1753 reporting a controlled trial, where he had given oranges and lemons (or lemon juice) to half the seamen and there had been no cases of scurvy. I'm not sure it would have passed the Ethical Committee, because the seamen in the non-treated part of the study died! But it was the first ever controlled study. James Lind was ridiculed and ignored.
Ironically in the year after he died, 40 years later, the Admiralty actually equipped a squadron with orange and lemon juice before they went off on a long voyage. Not one single seamen died. This however was still ignored for a further 10 years, untill finally in 1840 regulations came into force that all seamen would have orange and lemon juice on voyages - 251 years..."

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I'd say, by 1840 Vitamin C was not yet discovered? But that really is not the point.

Just for your information.

Elena Z.