Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner and a Gentleman Solved the Great Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail by Stephen R. Bown
Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner and a Gentleman Solved the Great Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail
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Stephen R. Bown
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Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner and a Gentleman Solved the Great Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail

Stephen R. Bown

284 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative medium-paced
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In the days of the tall ships, one dreaded foe was responsible for more deaths at sea than piracy, shipwreck and all other illnesses combined. Cruelly culling sailors and stunting maritime enterprise from Vasco da Gama to Sir Francis Drake, this p...

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