scurvy

 Scurvaceous Sailors and a Medical Mystery Author: Stephen Bown I love everything about independent bookstore book clubs except attending them. I’ll follow the monthly selections, dutifully check them out from the library and read along, finish the book in time for the meeting… and then not go. I like to think of it as my own personal at-home book club, where I can hog all the snacks and I don’t have to wear pants. Anyway, that’s how I ended up reading Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentlemen Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail, [...]