Scurvy : how a surgeon, a mariner and a gentleman solved the greatest medical mystery of the age of sail / Stephen R. Bown.
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.
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