Author: BOWN, STEPHEN R.
Title: Scurvy. How a Surgeon, a Mariner and a Gentleman Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail.
Description: First Edition; Sm. 8vo; pp. 284; some b/w illustrations, 3 maps, epilogue, appendix, timeline, a note on sources and furthur reading, bibliography, bound in original blue cloth, title lettered in white on spine, dustjacket, a fine copy. Camberwell, VIC; Viking; 2003.

Keywords: mde maritime sea sailors seafaring nations scurvy disease James Lind surgeon Sir Gilbert Blane captain James Cook cure prevention medicine Great Britain history medical