Infantile Scurvy: A Historical Perspective
Kumaravel Rajakumar
From the Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
This paper can be accessed at: http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/108/4/e76
The paper found that infantile scurvy appeared almost as a new disease toward the end of the 19th century. The increased incidence of infantile scurvy during that period was attributed to the usage of heated milk.
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