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Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentleman Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail (Audio CD) (Unabridged)
Scurvy How a Surgeon a Mariner and a Gentleman Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail - Audio CD - Unabridged Author:Stephen R. Bown, Dan Cashman (Narrator) From the earliest recorded appearance of the disease in the sixteenth century, to the eighteenth century, where a man had only half a chance of surviving the scourge, to the early nineteenth century, when the British conquered scurvy and successfully blockaded the French and defeated Napoleon, Scurvy is a medical detective story for the ages, th... more »e fascinating true story of how James Lind (the surgeon), James Cook (the mariner), and Gilbert Blane (the gentleman) worked separately to eliminate the dreaded affliction.