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Scurvy how a surgeon, a mariner, and a gentleman solved the greatest medical mystery of the age of sail
| Title | Scurvy how a surgeon, a mariner, and a gentleman solved the greatest medical mystery of the age of sail |
| Names | Bown, Stephen R. |
| Book Number | DB059013 |
| Title Status | Active |
| Medium | Digital Book |
| Download Link | Downloadable talking book. |
| 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. |
| Narrator | Wauters, Annie. |
| Local Subject | Medicine & Health - MED |
| Adult Book - AD | |
| Adult Non-Fiction - AN | |
| History, United States - HUS | |
| Sciences - SCI | |
| Adventure Non-Fiction - ADVNF | |
| Audience Notes | Female narrator. |
| LC Subject | Scurvy - History |
| Vitamin C - History |
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| Call Number | 616.394009 ANF |
| Language | English |
| Released | 2004 |
| Publication Info | Washington, D.C. : National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress, 2004 (Potomac Talking Book Services, recording studio). |
| Original Publication | Recorded from: 1st U.S. ed. New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2004. 0312313918 |