Hakluyt, Richard

Hakluyt, Richard, The Pnncipal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and... 

Hakluyt, Richard. The principal nauigations, voyages, traffiques and discoueries of the English nation made by sea or ouer-land. .. London George Bishop, Ralph Newberie, and Robert Barker, 1599-1600. 

And the Islands adjacent, collected and published by Richard Hakluyt, Prebendary of Bristol, in the year 1582. Edited by John Winter Junes,... 

The consequence of a deficiency of ascorbic acid (vitamin C) is scurvy. The earliest account of scurvy was perhaps written by the Egyptians in the Papyrus Elbers about 1550 B.c. For centuries, scurvy was a scourge of navies, armies, and explorers. The first appearance of the term scurvy in an English publication was in 1589 in the records of Richard Hakluyt. Another 344 years passed before the antiscorbutic factor (vitamin C) was isolated, characterized, and synthesized. In 1933, Haworth and Szent-Gyorgyi coined the name L-ascorbic acid to reflect the antiscorbutic properties of the vitamin. 

The best plan was that used in England, a sheathing of very thin boards, and between it and the ship s side a composition of tar and hair.—Observations of Sir Richard Hawkins Hakluyt Society s vol. for 1878, p. 203. 

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