Ocean State Libraries

"Honorable Mention for the 2018 Louis Gottschalk Prize, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies" Jonathan Lamb is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Vanderbilt University. His many books include The Things Things Say (Princeton) and The Evolution of Sympathy in the Long Eighteenth Century. An intellectual history of scurvy in the eighteenth century Scurvy, a disease often associated with long stretches of maritime travel,...

Traces the discovery of the cure for scurvy by three determined individuals including a navy surgeon, a sea catain, and a charismatic gentleman, tracing the recorded history of the disease, along with its research and cure.

Two friends discuss one's personal history of medicine, particularly the advancement in the field of nephrology. Also mention third world medicine, scurvy, the American Journal of Medicine, Rochester, N.Y., New York, N.Y., Buffalo, N.Y., Boston City Hospital, Rhode Island Hospital and Brown University.