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Article: Scurvy's conquest and sailors' health.
- Article from:
- The Historian
- Article date:
- June 22, 1995
- Author:
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The quincentenary of Columbus' arrival in the New World rekindled interest in the problems seamen faced during the voyages of discovery. Historical studies of early Phoenician travels throughout the Mediterranean have been followed by those of Viking and Irish transatlantic voyages to North America and of Columbus to the Caribbean. As ships increased in size and navigational skills improved, circumnavigations, beginning with the Portuguese navigator Magellan in 1519, continued with the explorers Drake, Dampier, Anson, Byron, and Wallis.
Early circumnavigational explorations were limited by the poor health of the ships' crews. Later expeditions were more successful ...
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... ... more than 130,000 died of scurvy. A paltry 1,500 died in action ... subject of Stephen Bown's Scurvy. Bown, an Alberta freelance ... chattel and died as such from scurvy--miserably and alone. He ... the great voyages of Anson and Cook, and the work of John Lind ...
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