But the same cannot be said about its victims throughout the ages. And especially during the age of exploration from 1500 to 1800, where it is estimated that scurvy claimed the lives of more than 2 million sailors. But scurvy symptoms were first recorded as early as 1550 BCE by the ancient Egyptians. And the Greek father of medicine, Hippocrates, described scurvy symptoms nearly 2500 years ago, around the same time that the Chinese monk Sphaxian reported the use of ginger on ships was being used to prevent it. Without Facebook, without Twitter, this life-saving knowledge was repeatedly lost and then found, and then lost, and then found, all the way up until the 1900s. Now the largest death tolls due to scurvy were during the long sea voyages undertaken during the age of exploration. Now some of you may have heard of Ferdinand Magellan, the famed Portuguese explorer who created a trade route, the first one, between Europe and India.