Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentleman Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail: by Stephen R. Bown. New York: St Martin's Griffin, an Imprint of Macmillan Publishers, 2021. 254 pp., b/w illustrations, notes, index. $21.99 (PB) ISBN 978-0-312-31392-0
Also important in this book is Bown's review of the state of medical science in the eighteenth century and how Lind conducted what may be the first controlled experiments in his search for scurvy's cure. Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentleman Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age...
| Publicado en: | Terrae Incognitae Vol. 55; no. 2; pp. 203 - 205 |
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