The age of scurvy : how a surgeon, a mariner and a gentleman helped Britain win the Battle of Trafalgar / Stephen R. Bown.

Chichester : Summersdale, 2005.

284 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 20 cm.

Originally published: as Scurvy. 2003.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-284).

In the days of tall ships, scurvy killed more mariners than any other illness. James Lind, James Cook and Sir Gilbert Blane undertook to solve the riddle of scurvy. Their achievements heralded a new age and cracked the greatest medical mystery of the age of sail.

9781840244021 (pbk)

616.394
359.45
359.345

English

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