عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
RC627.S36 B694 2004
RC627
.
S36
B694
2004
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
0312313918
0312313926
9780312313913
9780312313920
b790965
Scurvy :
[Book]
how a surgeon, a mariner, and a gentleman solved the greatest medical mystery of the age of sail /
Stephen R. Bown.
1st U.S. ed.
New York :
Thomas Dunne Books, St. Matin's Press,
2004.
254 pages :
illustrations, maps ;
22 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-243) and index.
Prologue: A Medical mystery -- The eighteenth-century seafaring world: The age of scurvy -- Scurvy: The plague of the sea -- Disaster and victory in the South Seas: Lord Anson's terrible voyage -- Found and lost: The search for a cure begins -- An ounce of prevention: James Lind and the Salisbury Experiment -- Unwinding the knot: Rob and wort and the trials at sea -- Master mariner: James Cook's great voyages in the Pacific -- Man of influence: Gilbert Blane and the West Indies fleet -- Blockade: The defeat of scurvy and Napoleon -- Epilogue: The mystery solved.
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Traces the discovery of the cure for scurvy by three determined individuals including a navy surgeon, a sea catain, and a charismatic gentleman, tracing the recorded history of the disease, along with its research and cure.
St Martins Pr, C/O Mps 16365 James Madison Hwy Us RT 15, Gordonsville, VA, USA, 22942
Scurvy-- History.
Vitamin C-- History.
History, 18th Century-- England.
Naval Medicine-- history-- England.
Scurvy-- history-- England.
Geschichte 1492-1933.
Scurvy.
Skorbut
Vitamin C.
616
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3/94/009
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RC627
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S36
B694
2004
WD
100
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B787s
2004
Bown, Stephen R.
20201207042103.0
مطالعه متن کتاب [Book]
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