Jonathan Lamb (2)
Auteur de Scurvy: The Disease of Discovery
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- Œuvres
- 5
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- 1
- Membres
- 69
- Popularité
- #250,752
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- 3.5
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- 2
- ISBN
- 55
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- 2
Lamb also covers the fruitless attempts to pinpoint the prevention of scurvy and how it can easily mask as other diseases. All those symptoms also led to an intense, deadly homesickness known as "Scorbutic nostalgia." So much so, it was studied extensively alongside what's known as calenture, a delusion that causes sailors to throw themselves into the sea. Finally, the chapters on scurvy culture in Australia had me thinking about land-scurvy. Convicts certainly weren't provided fresh fruit consistently and apparently provisions varied wildly. It would be interesting to compare this with early American pioneers who traveled for months on end with a similar diet.
However, Lamb assumes a lot of their reader from the beginning. Thank goodness I've read a lot of medical history and the 18th century is my specialty. Surnames are dropped without context, which results in limited accessibility outside of academia. Also, it's a shame Lamb didn't utilize more non-English accounts of scurvy. I would've liked to see more 18th c. French or Dutch sources, considering the abundance of their literature. Lamb often refers to the Odyssey, Lucretius, and Moby Dick, so it definitely wasn't a cultural limitation.… (plus d'informations)