附註:Includes bibliographical references.
Preliminaries; Acknowledgements; 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 SolvedAppendix: Vitamin C Contained in Common Foods of the Age of Sail; Timeline; A Note on Sources and Further Reading; Bibliography.
摘要:In the days of tall ships, scurvy killed more mariners than any other illness. James Lind, James Cook and Sir Gilbert Blane undertook to solve the riddle of Scurvy. Their achievements heralded a new age and cracked the greatest medical mystery of the Age of Sail.
