1734年,在开往格陵兰的海船上,有一个船员得了严重的坏血病,当时这种病无法医治,其他船员只好把他抛弃在一座荒岛上。待这名船员苏醒之后,发现周围已没有同伴,也没有粮食,于是他只能靠野草充饥,可是几天后他的坏血病竟不治而愈了。在漫无边际的海洋上漂流,像这类坏血病,曾夺去了几十万水手的生命。后来人们才得知,原来坏血病的致病原因是身体里缺少了维生素C这种微量营养成分。 In 1734, a crew member was severely scurvy on a sea-going ship to Greenland when the disease was not healed and the rest of the crew had to abandon him on a deserted island. When the crew regained consciousness and found no companions or food around, he could only feed on weeds, but a few days later his scurvy was cured. Rafting in the endless ocean, such as scurvy, has claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of sailors. Later, people learned that the original cause of scurvy is the lack of vitamin C in the body of such micronutrients.