Ever heard of "portable soup"? Yeah, us neither. Soup that was reduced to a gelatin-style base - hence its other name, veal glue (gross.) This early attempt at a meta analysis of British Naval health demonstrated it was ineffective at curbing scurvy: www.altmetric.com/details/1339... 16/x

Report for: Statements of the comparative Health of the British Navy, from the year 1779 to the year 1814, with proposals for its farther improvement.

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Hey is drinking a lot of caffeine and posting online late at night, like, bad? Luckily I have this 1900 Medical Handbook, whose chapters on "Cola", "Coffea" and, excitingly, "Cocaïnum" might help. Those chapters aren't mentioned online but the Handbook is! www.altmetric.com/details/3606... 17/x

Report for: Hagers Handbuch der Pharmaceutischen Praxis

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