This is a survey of the fascinating history of the various ideas and theories causing scurvy.

An intellectual history of scurvy in the eighteenth century Scurvy—a disease usually associated with long stretches of maritime travel—generated extraordina

Vitamin C is the first book to cover the history, chemistry, biochemistry, and medical importance of vitamin C and is the first to provide an in-depth, interdis

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the publi

In the Age of Sail scurvy was responsible for more deaths at sea than piracy, shipwreck and all other illnesses, and its cure ranks among the greatest of milita