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 | Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentlemen Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail (Reprint Edition) by Stephen R. Bown Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2005 ISBN-10: 0-312-31392-6 / 0312313926 ISBN-13: 978-0-312-31392-0 / 9780312313920 Scurvy took a terrible toll in the Age of Sail, killing more sailors than were lost in all sea battles combined. The threat of the disease kept ships close to home and doomed those vessels that ventured too far from port. The willful ignorance of the royal medical elite, who endorsed ludicrous medic | |