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ratherastory in little_details

Scurvy: advanced symptoms, etc.

Nov 16, 2010 13:01

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~age of sail, ~medicine: starvation/malnourishment, ~medicine: illnesses (misc), 1700s (no decades given)

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thekumquat November 17 2010, 20:18:38 UTC

The book 'Nathaniel's Nutmeg' is a very readable account of the English attempts to colonise the Spice Islands and hold them despite the efforts of the Spanish/Portuguese/Dutch/anyone else, and includes lots of quotes from primary sources describing voyages around the world, at which point different foods ran out, and when the crew started having symptoms of scurvy and dying of various things. Includes the guy who first took lemons on a ship but was then ignored for years.

Mostly takes place in the 1600s.

ratherastory November 17 2010, 20:20:00 UTC

Oh, nice. Thank you!

moon_custafer November 18 2010, 01:56:28 UTC

No timetable for the onset of the disease, but James Lind's account of treating it says the guys given citrus fruit recovered in about six days.

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