Yes, but as the blog post explains, it's quite understandable! I mean, they didn't know the actual mechanism, and also, it seems that lemons were switched for limes which have lower vitamin C content, and then with steam ships, passage times were so fast that they didn't notice the lower effectiveness until the polar explorers needed it...
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Date: 2021-03-25 01:43 pm (UTC)