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Magical Tome
- First published
- 1988
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 0521347734
The history of scurvy and vitamin C
The outer archives are busy
About this book
Comprehensive account of one of the diseases - scurvy - which had most significant effects on the history of travel and exploration. Information is investigated on an historical basis, beginning in the middle ages and finishing with a discussion of recent mega-vitamin contentions. Includes a chapter on problems in the arctic.
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