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Title Page
Table of Contents
PROLOGUE: A MEDICAL MYSTERY
1 - THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY SEAFARING WORLD: THE AGE OF SCURVY
2 - SCURVY: THE PLAGUE OF THE SEA
3 - DISASTER AND VICTORY IN THE SOUTH SEAS : LORD ANSON’S TERRIBLE VOYAGE
4 - FOUND AND LOST: THE SEARCH FOR A CURE BEGINS
5 - AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION : JAMES LIND AND THE SALISBURY EXPERIMENT
6 - UNWINDING THE KNOT: ROB AND WORT AND THE TRIALS AT SEA
7 - MASTER MARINER: JAMES COOK’S GREAT VOYAGES IN THE PACIFIC
8 - MAN OF INFLUENCE: GILBERT BLANE AND THE WEST INDIES FLEET
9 - BLOCKADE: THE DEFEAT OF SCURVY AND NAPOLEON
EPILOGUE: THE MYSTERY SOLVED
Appendix - Vitamin C Contained in Common Foods of the Age of Sail
Timeline
A Note on Sources and Further Reading
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index
Additional Praise for Stephen R. Bown’s Scurvy
Copyright Page
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