DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Scurvy, Past and Present" by Alfred F. Hess. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a

An intellectual history of scurvy in the eighteenth century Scurvy—a disease usually associated with long stretches of maritime travel—generated extraordina

Volume 3 of eJIM, the eJournal of Indian Medicine. eJIM is a multidisciplinary periodical that publishes studies on South Asian medical systems by qualified sch

In the Age of Sail scurvy was responsible for more deaths at sea than piracy, shipwreck and all other illnesses, and its cure ranks among the greatest of milita