Skip to main content alibris logo

Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentlemen Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail

by

Write The First Customer Review
Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentlemen Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail - Bown, Stephen R
Filter Results
Item Condition
Seller Rating
Other Options
Change Currency

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.

loading
Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentlemen Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail 2005, St. Martin's Griffin, New York

ISBN-13: 9780312313920

Trade paperback

Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentlemen Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail 2004, Thomas Dunne Books, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780312313913

Hardcover