Sea Sick
Lime Juice and Scurvy
Seiten
2025
National Maritime Museum (Verlag)
978-1-7391542-3-3 (ISBN)
National Maritime Museum (Verlag)
978-1-7391542-3-3 (ISBN)
Sea Sick: Lime Juice and Scurvy uses a seemingly unremarkable glass bottle as a jumping-off point for an exploration of the maritime world’s deadliest of diseases – scurvy – and the fascinating journey to find its cure.
This eighteenth-century glass bottle – and what it contained – represents an important step in the fight against a disease that once claimed the lives of millions: scurvy. Through notable voyages and afflicted individuals, the physical and psychological manifestations of the deadly ‘sickness of the sea’ are examined in a maritime context. What starts as a story of the often haphazard and ineffective efforts to find a cure becomes a tale of pioneering experiments and the eventual discovery of vitamin C.
Sea Sick: Lime Juice and Scurvy is part of the Royal Museums Greenwich Spotlight series, accessible introductions to some of the most intriguing objects in the collection.
This eighteenth-century glass bottle – and what it contained – represents an important step in the fight against a disease that once claimed the lives of millions: scurvy. Through notable voyages and afflicted individuals, the physical and psychological manifestations of the deadly ‘sickness of the sea’ are examined in a maritime context. What starts as a story of the often haphazard and ineffective efforts to find a cure becomes a tale of pioneering experiments and the eventual discovery of vitamin C.
Sea Sick: Lime Juice and Scurvy is part of the Royal Museums Greenwich Spotlight series, accessible introductions to some of the most intriguing objects in the collection.
Lucy Dale is Curator of Maritime History at Royal Museums Greenwich. She specialises in oral history and digital collections, and her research interests include the merchant navy, the history of medicine and literature of the sea.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 15.03.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Spotlight series |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 150 x 178 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-7391542-3-1 / 1739154231 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-7391542-3-3 / 9781739154233 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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