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...

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Published in:	Terrae Incognitae Vol. 55; no. 2; pp. 203 - 205
Main Author:	Seidemann, Ryan M.
Format:	Product Review
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Aug2023
Subjects:	Scurvy Macmillan Publishers Ltd. Sailors Surgeons American Revolutionary War, 1775-1783 Aristocracy (Social class) Saint Martin (West Indies) New York (State)
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Summary:	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 of Sail: by Stephen R. Bown. Interestingly, Bown demonstrates how the scurvy cure spanned the time between the American Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, possibly causing disparate outcomes in both of these military campaigns.