There, Szent-Gy�rgyi and his research fellow Joseph Svirbely found that " hexuronic acid " was actually the thus far unidentified antiscorbutic factor, known as vitamin C . After Walter Norman Haworth had determined the structure of vitamin C, and in honour of its antiscorbutic properties, it was given the formal chemical name of L-ascorbic acid.
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A decoction of the root of " P . officinale " is diuretic, sudorific, antiscorbutic and controls menstruation . " Gummi Peucedani ", the oleoresin derived from the drying of the root latex, has properties similar to those of " Gum Ammoniac " ( the oleoresin derived from " Dorema ammoniacum " ) . " Peucedanum officinale " has also been used in veterinary medicine.
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In fact, the West Indian limes were significantly lower in Vitamin C than the previous lemons and further were not served fresh but rather as lime juice, which had been exposed to light and air and piped through copper tubing, all of which significantly reduced the Vitamin C . Indeed, a 1918 animal experiment using representative samples of the Navy and Merchant Marine's lime juice showed that it had virtually no antiscorbutic power at all.
