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spruce-bark tea 
an infusion of boiled tender spruce shoots, used for the prevention of scurvy.
See also: spruce tea
- 1958 None of its citizens were ordinary, for almost every one of them knew how to . . . treat scurvey with spruce-bark tea, how to carry a pack on a tumpline, and how to navigate fast water.
- 1958 None of its citizens were ordinary, for almost every one of them knew how to . . . treat scurvey with spruce-bark tea, how to carry a pack on a tumpline, and how to navigate fast water.