Lost Cures: The Copper Lime Disaster in Naval Medicine

The British Navy famously conquered the devastating plague of scurvy in the eighteenth century by mandating daily rations of citrus juice, seemingly solving maritime medicine's greatest mystery. The problem was thought to be entirely eradicated, ensuring global naval dominance. Yet, decades later, scurvy inexplicably returned to devastate polar expeditions and naval fleets, baffling the greatest...