EventAcross the pillars
The White Sickness
It begins in the gums. The surgeon calls it the land sickness and has no remedy. The men's legs blacken and swell, old scars open as if new, teeth loosen in their sockets, and the strongest hands go down first, which no one can explain. Eight are dead and a quarter of the muster cannot stand a watch. The cold country is somewhere under our lee, and the question on the quarterdeck is whether whatever waits ashore can be crueler than what is already aboard.
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type = country_event
title = seven_cities_saguenay.11.title The White Sickness
desc = seven_cities_saguenay.11.desc It begins in the gums. The surgeon calls it the land sickness and has no remedy. The men's legs blacken and swell, old scars open as if new, teeth loosen in their sockets, and the strongest hands go down first, which no one can explain. Eight are dead and a quarter of the muster cannot stand a watch. The cold country is somewhere under our lee, and the question on the quarterdeck is whether whatever waits ashore can be crueler than what is already aboard.
historical_info = seven_cities_saguenay.11.historical_info Scurvy killed a quarter of Cartier's men in the winter of 1535-36 at Stadacona before Domagaya, one of the chief's sons who had been to France, showed them how to boil the bark and needles of a tree the Iroquoians called annedda into a drink. Men who could not stand were walking within a week, and Cartier wrote that all the doctors of Louvain and Montpellier together could not have done with all their drugs what the tree did in eight days. The identity of the annedda was subsequently lost, the cure forgotten by Europe for two hundred years, and scurvy went on to kill more sailors than every naval battle in the age of sail combined.
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