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Scurvy on sea and land: political economy and natural history, c . 1780– c . 1850

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From the late eighteenth century, the ways in which scurvy was understood changed in consequence of the abandonment of humoral pathology and the adoption of a new causal framework informed by nervous physiology. Although there was some narrowing of the etiological framework around dietary deficiency in the wake of the navy's success with the issue of citrus juices, this was rarely to the exclusion of predisposing causes such as fatigue, weather and flagging spirits. Within the navy, the pe...

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10.1080/21533369.2013.783167

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
HUMS
Department:
History Faculty
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Author
Publisher:
Routledge Publisher's website
Journal:
Journal for Maritime Research Journal website
Volume:
15
Issue:
1
Pages:
7-25
Publication date:
2013-01-01
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EISSN:
1469-1957
ISSN:
2153-3369
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uuid:cb5a9732-01d0-4b42-a874-bedc167048fe
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632312
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2016-07-07

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