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Scurvy - How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentleman Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail (Paperback)
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Scurvy - How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentleman Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail (Paperback)
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In the Age of Sail scurvy was responsible for more deaths at sea
than piracy, shipwreck and all other illnesses, and its cure ranks
among the greatest of military successes - yet its impact on
history has mostly been ignored. Stephen Bown searches back to the
earliest recorded appearance of scurvy in the sixteenth century, to
the eighteenth century when the disease was at its gum-shredding,
bone-snapping worst, and to the early nineteenth century, when the
preventative was finally put into service. Bown introduces us to
James Lind, the navy surgeon and medical detective, whose research
on the disease spawned the implementation of the cure; Captain
James Cook, who successfully avoided scurvy on his epic voyages;
and Gilbert Blane, whose social status and charisma won over the
British Navy. Scurvy is a lively recounting of how three determined
individuals overcame the constraints of eighteenth-century thinking
to solve the greatest medical mystery of their era.
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