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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 »
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ISBN-13: 9781590075562
ISBN-10: 1590075560
Publication Date: 1/2004
Edition: Unabridged
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Publisher: New Millennium
Book Type: Audio CD
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