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Scurvy

The Disease of Discovery

Jonathan Lamb

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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Geschichte

Beschreibung

An intellectual history of scurvy in the eighteenth century

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.

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Sauerkraut, Irritation, Nitrous oxide, Yellow fever, Disgust, Lesion, Robert Hooke, Iain McCalman, Skepticism, Coulter (agriculture), The Blazing World, Suffering, Robert Whytt, Delusion, Analogy, Fatigue (medical), Gangrene, Homesickness, Literature, Calculation, Physician, Alison Bashford, Symptom, Malnutrition, Narrative, Vegetable, Wound, Putrefaction, Health, Suggestion, De rerum natura, Lethargy, Typhus, Pellagra, Deficiency (medicine), Canine distemper, Vitamin C, Irritability, Royal College of Physicians, Lucretius, Thomas Willis, Thought, Starvation, Vitamin, Indication (medicine), Beriberi, South Seas (genre), The Various, Disease, Humphry Davy, Clinical trial, Horace Walpole, Petechia, Fiction, Theft, Dysentery, Thomas Beddoes, Antioxidant, Oxidative stress, Sensibility, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Microscope, Artery, Richard Mead, Scurvy, Blood vessel, Inflammation, Supporter, The Other Hand, William Dampier