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BL
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1036595
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b790965
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| Main Entry
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Bown, Stephen R.
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| Title & Author
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Scurvy : : how a surgeon, a mariner, and a gentleman solved the greatest medical mystery of the age of sail /\ Stephen R. Bown.
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| Edition Statement
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1st U.S. ed.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Matin's Press,, 2004.
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| Page. NO
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254 pages :: illustrations, maps ;; 22 cm
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| ISBN
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0312313918
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: 0312313926
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: 9780312313913
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: 9780312313920
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-243) and index.
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| Contents
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Prologue: 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.
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| Abstract
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Traces the discovery of the cure for scurvy by three determined individuals including a navy surgeon, a sea catain, and a charismatic gentleman, tracing the recorded history of the disease, along with its research and cure.
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| Subject
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Scurvy-- History.
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Vitamin C-- History.
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History, 18th Century-- England.
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Naval Medicine-- history-- England.
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Scurvy-- history-- England.
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Scurvy.
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Skorbut
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Vitamin C.
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Geschichte 1492-1933.
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| Dewey Classification
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616.3/94/009
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| LC Classification
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RC627.S36B694 2004
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| NLM classification
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WD 100.B787s 2004
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