This lively narrative relates how three curious and determined individuals solved a great medical mystery. "Scurvy" is a medical detective story for the ages, a fascinating and often maddening examination of how the preventative for scurvy, the "scourge of the seas," was found.
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This lively narrative relates how three curious and determined individuals solved a great medical mystery. "Scurvy" is a medical detective story for the ages, a fascinating and often maddening examination of how the preventative for scurvy, the "scourge of the seas," was found.
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Very good(+) in poor jacket. Illustrated in black and white throughout. 254 pages. 8vo, black boards, dust wrapper. New York: St. Martin's, (2004). A very good(+) copy, clean except for jottings on back free end paper, in a poor dust wrapper, water damage along bottom edge and back cover. A rare mix of compelling history and classic adventure story. Brimming with tales of ships, sailors, and baffling bureaucracy.
