Description Scurvy--a Disease usually associated with long stretches of maritime travel--generated extraordinary sensations.
Drawing on historical accounts from scientists and voyagers as well as major lit.
In this book, Jonathan Lamb presents an intellectual history of scurvy unlike any other, probing its cultural impact during the eighteenth-century age of geographic and scientific discovery.
Eyes dazzled, skin was morbidly sensitive, emotions veered between disgust and delight.
Description Scurvy--a Disease usually associated with long stretches of maritime travel--generated extraordinary sensations