https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/empire_seapower/captaincook_scurvy_01.shtml
Scurvy came to public notice in Britain after Commodore George Anson led a squadron into the Pacific in the 1740s to raid Spanish shipping. He lost all but one of his six ships, and two thirds of the crews he shipped (700 survived out of an original complement of 2000), most of them to scurvy.

[Cook's first cruise from 1768 to 1771] had five cases of scurvy reported by his surgeon and no deaths from it. In his next two voyages Cook's good management, or luck, persisted, and no deaths from scurvy were reported. Since then he has been hailed as the conqueror of the sea's great plague. William Bowles wrote in his poem The Spirit of Discovery (1804):

Smile, glowing Health!
For now no more the wasted seaman sinks,
With haggard eye and feeble frame diseased;
No more with tortured longings for the sight
Of fields and hillocks green, madly he calls.

https://archive.org/details/spiritofdiscover00bowl/page/n9/mode/2up
The spirit of discovery; or, The conquest of ocean. : A poem, in five books: with notes, historical and illustrative. by Bowles, William Lisle, 1762-1850 Publication date 1804

Hughie Jones sang 'According to the Act' as the first track of his 1973 Fellside CD Seascape. He noted: We get underway with a couple of satirical ditties. According to the Act concerns The Merchant Shipping Act of 1894, known as the ‘Limejuice Act’. Its purpose was to improve conditions for seafarers, notably with an issue of limejuice ten days out. (From Mainly Norfolk) Songs about scurvy should be unlikely after this date.

It turns out that Cook's prohibition against the fat from the boiling pans was the only truly antiscorbutic measure he took, for hot salt fat coming into contact with copper acquired a substance that irritates the gut and prevents its absorption of vitamins. Gilbert Blane and Thomas Beddoes, highly esteemed authorities on scurvy in the 18th century, rightly doubted that there was any antiscorbutic virtue in malt. Thomas Trotter, another expert, thought sauerkraut and portable soup were 'mere placebo'. They stated what Lind had already experimentally deduced - that fresh vegetables and citrus juice are the only substantial sources of vitamin C. But although 'rob' (concentrated fruit juice) was carried on board Cook's ships, it had been boiled to reduce it, and in the process all its vitamin C (ascorbic acid) had been lost.

There seems little in verse or song to commemorate Anson, a naval hero. "The Castaway" is an elegiac poem/ballad written by William Cowper in 1799. The poem is based on George Anson's Voyage around the World after Cowper read an account which told of one of the men being washed overboard. There is one explicit reference to Anson's voyage:
       No poet wept him: but the page
                Of narrative sincere;
       That tells his name, his worth, his age,
                Is wet with Anson's tear.
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