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Foods Rich in Vitamin C © (Getty Images) citrus fruit cut half on a blue table top view In the 18th century, the course of history may have been changed by, of all things, lemon juice. At least, that’s a claim made by the Science History Institute in Philadelphia. Up to that point, one of the most devastating diseases in the world was scurvy. A horrifyingly gruesome and potentially fatal disease, scurvy can cause lethargy, anemia, spontaneous bleeding, excruciating pain and swelling and breakdown of the gums leading to tooth loss. Seafarers were at high risk, with scurvy killing more than 2 million sailors from late-15th to the mid-19th century. “The problem was so common that shipowners and governments assumed a 50% death rate from scurvy for their sailors on any major voyage,” according to the Science History Institute.

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