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AuthorBown, Stephen R.TitleScurvy : how a surgeon, a mariner, and a gentleman solved the greatest medical mystery of the age of sail / Stephen R. Bown.Edition1st U.S. ed.
PublishedNew York : Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin’s Press, 2004.FormatBook
Description254 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.

NotesIncludes bibliographical references (p. [239]-243) and index.
ContentsPrologue: A Medical mystery -- The eighteenth-century seafaring world: The age of scurvy -- Scurvy: The plague of the sea -- Disaster and victory in the South Seas: Lord Anson’s terrible voyage -- Found and lost: The search for a cure begins -- An ounce of prevention: James Lind and the Salisbury Experiment -- Unwinding the knot: Rob and wort and the trials at sea -- Master mariner: James Cook’s great voyages in the Pacific -- Man of influence: Gilbert Blane and the West Indies fleet -- Blockade: The defeat of scurvy and Napoleon -- Epilogue: The mystery solved.
ISBN0312313918SubjectScurvy -- History.
Vitamin C -- History.

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