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Lamb, Jonathan, 1945-
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Scurvy.
Scurvy -- History.
Scurvy -- Complications.
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Lamb, Jonathan, 1945-
Scurvy.
Scurvy -- History.
Scurvy -- Complications.
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Scurvy
: the
disease
of
discovery
/ Jonathan Lamb ; with a coda written by James May and Fiona Harrison.
by
Lamb, Jonathan, 1945-
Princeton University Press, 2017.
Call #:
616.394 L218s
Subjects
Scurvy
.
Scurvy
-- History.
Scurvy
-- Complications.
ISBN:
9780691147826
Description:
xii, 305 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [279]-298) and index.
Contents:
Enigma -- Effluvia -- Nostalgia -- Australia -- Genera mixta.
Summary:
"
Scurvy
, a
disease
often associated with long stretches of maritime travel, generated sensations exceeding the standard of what was normal. Eyes dazzled, skin was morbidly sensitive, emotions veered between disgust and delight. In this book, Jonathan Lamb presents an intellectual history of
scurvy
unlike any other, probing the speechless encounter with powerful sensations to tell the story of the
disease
that its victims couldn't because they found their illness too terrible and, in some cases, too exciting. Drawing on historical accounts from scientists and voyagers as well as major literary works, Lamb traces the cultural impact of
scurvy
during the eighteenth-century age of geographical and scientific
discovery
. He explains the medical knowledge surrounding
scurvy
and the debates about its cause, prevention, and attempted cures. He vividly describes the phenomenon and experience of 'scorbutic nostalgia,' in which victims imagined mirages of food, water, or home, and then wept when such pleasures proved impossible to consume or reach. Lamb argues that a culture of
scurvy
arose in the colony of Australia, which was prey to the
disease
in its early years, and identifies a literature of
scurvy
in the works of such figures as Herman Melville, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Francis Bacon, and Jonathan Swift. Masterful and illuminating,
Scurvy
shows how the journeys of
discovery
in the eighteenth century not only ventured outward to the ends of the earth, but were also an inward voyage into the realms of sensation and passion."--Publisher's description.
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