Add this copy of Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner and a Gentleman Solved to cart. $21.40, very good condition, Sold by Lawrence Jones rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Nobby Beach, QLD, AUSTRALIA, published 2003 by Penguin Books Australia.
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Seller's Description:
Very Good in Fine jacket. 8vo. 284pp, b/w ills, three maps, bibliography, index. Light wear at the spine by the publications page. Or cl boards in dust-jacket. A cure for scurvey had 'eluded doctors and philosophers since the time of the ancient Greeks, but in the late 18th century the surgeon James Lind, the great sea captain James Cook and the physician Sir Gilber Blane, undertook to crack the riddle of scurvey. Their timely discovery irrevocably altered the course of world history'.
