Scurvy!
Time to Eat the Dogs
Ed Armston-Sheret talks about the mysterious disease of scurvy: how it affected expeditioners and why it was so difficult to understand. Armston-Sheret is a PhD candidate at Royal Holloway University of London. Heβs the author of "Tainted bodies : scurvy, bad food and the reputation of the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901β1904," published this year in the Journal of Historical Geography. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesNext Episodes
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