Title |
Scurvy how a surgeon, a mariner, and a gentleman solved the greatest medical mystery of the age of sail
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Names |
Bown, Stephen R.
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Book Number |
DB059013
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Title Status |
Active
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Medium |
Digital Book
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Download Link |
Downloadable talking book.
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Annotation |
Chronicles the search for cause and cure of the disease that hindered maritime exploration and claimed over two million sailors' lives since the 1400s. Describes how three eighteenth-century figures--James Lind, Captain James Cook, and Sir Gilbert Blane--worked independently to understand and eliminate the affliction caused by vitamin C deficiency. 2003.
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Narrator |
Wauters, Annie.
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Local Subject |
Medicine & Health - MED
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Adult Book - AD
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Adult Non-Fiction - AN
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History, United States - HUS
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Sciences - SCI
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Adventure Non-Fiction - ADVNF
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Audience Notes |
Female narrator.
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LC Subject |
Scurvy - History
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Vitamin C - History
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Call Number |
616.394009 ANF
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Language |
English
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Released |
2004
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Publication Info |
Washington, D.C. : National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress, 2004 (Potomac Talking Book Services, recording studio).
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Original Publication |
Recorded from: 1st U.S. ed. New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2004. 0312313918
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