Discovering the Cure for Scurvy

A Nature of Science book which tells the story of how a cure was found for Scurvy, an illness that had been killing people for hundreds of years.

The chapters are:
1. Magnetism and astronomy for voyages
2. 'The curse of the mouth'
3. Old theories and old cures
4. New medical science
5. The disease of rich babies
6. The discovery of vitamin C

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