Author: Stephen R. Bown
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0312313918
Scurvy took a terrible toll in the Age of Sail, killing more sailors than were lost in all sea battles combined. Download Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentlemen Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. The threat of the disease kept ships close to home and doomed those vessels that ventured too far from port. The willful ignorance of the royal medical elite, who endorsed ludicrous medical theories based on speculative research while ignoring the life-saving properties of citrus fruit, cost tens of thousands of lives and altered the course of many battles at sea. The cure for scurvy ranks among the greatest of human accomplishments, yet its impact on history has, until now, been largely ignored.
From the earliest recorded appearance of the disease in the sixteenth century, to the eighteenth century, where a man had only half Search and find a lot of medical books in many category availabe for free download. Scurvy medical books pdf for free.
From the earliest recorded appearance of the disease in the sixteenth century, to the eighteenth century, where a man had only half
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0312313918
Scurvy took a terrible toll in the Age of Sail, killing more sailors than were lost in all sea battles combined. Download Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentlemen Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. The threat of the disease kept ships close to home and doomed those vessels that ventured too far from port. The willful ignorance of the royal medical elite, who endorsed ludicrous medical theories based on speculative research while ignoring the life-saving properties of citrus fruit, cost tens of thousands of lives and altered the course of many battles at sea. The cure for scurvy ranks among the greatest of human accomplishments, yet its impact on history has, until now, been largely ignored.
From the earliest recorded appearance of the disease in the sixteenth century, to the eighteenth century, where a man had only half Search and find a lot of medical books in many category availabe for free download. Scurvy medical books pdf for free.
From the earliest recorded appearance of the disease in the sixteenth century, to the eighteenth century, where a man had only half
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