TY - GEN T1 - Scurvy. A1 - Lamb, Jonathan, 1945- LA - English PB - Princeton University Press YR - 2016 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn961344419 AB - "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." --Publisher description. CN - RC627.S36 SN - 1400884543 SN - 9781400884544 SN - 0691147825 SN - 9780691147826 KW - Scurvy : History. KW - Scurvy : history KW - Scurvy : complications KW - Expeditions : history KW - Confusion KW - History, Modern 1601- KW - History, Early Modern 1451-1600 KW - Scorbut : Histoire. KW - MeĢdecine : Histoire : 1500- KW - HEALTH & FITNESS : Diseases : General. KW - MEDICAL : Clinical Medicine. KW - MEDICAL : Diseases. KW - MEDICAL : Evidence-Based Medicine. KW - MEDICAL : Internal Medicine. KW - MEDICAL : History. KW - Scurvy KW - Skorbut KW - Entdeckungsreise KW - History ER -