Sea Sick: Lime Juice and Scurvy

by Lucy Dale

With an apparently unremarkable eighteenth-century glass bott le as its starting point, Sea Sick: Lime Juice and Scurvy explores the history of scurvy, its symptoms, causes and the fi ght against it. Conservative estimates indicate that the disease took the lives of more than two million seafarers between 1500 and 1800, and it has been suggested that scurvy was responsible for more deaths at sea than storms, shipwreck and all other diseases combined...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1739154231
• ISBN13: 9781739154233
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: Royal Museums Greenwich
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.