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024	7		_a10.1515/9781400884544 _2doi
035			_a(DE-B1597)9781400884544
035			_a(DE-B1597)479648
035			_a(OCoLC)979595709
040			_aDE-B1597 _beng _cDE-B1597 _erda
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072		7	_aHIS054000 _2bisacsh
082	0	4	_a616.394009 _223
084			_aonline - DeGruyter
100	1		_aLamb, Jonathan _eautore
245	1	0	_aScurvy : _bThe Disease of Discovery / _cJonathan Lamb.
264		1	_aPrinceton, NJ : _bPrinceton University Press, _c[2016]
264		4	_c©2017
300			_a1 online resource : _b27 halftones.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_atext file _bPDF _2rda
505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tContents -- _tList of Illustrations -- _tAcknowledgments -- _tProlegomena -- _t1. Enigma -- _t2. Effluvia -- _t3. Nostalgia -- _t4. Australia -- _t5. Genera Mixta -- _tCoda -- _tBibliography -- _tIndex
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aScurvy, 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.
530			_aIssued also in print.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
650		0	_aScurvy _xHistory.
650		7	_aHISTORY / Social History. _2bisacsh
850			_aIT-RoAPU
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9781400884544?locatt=mode:legacy
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