"The Sailor's Curse - How a simple lime defeated the navy's greatest killer" tackles the history of scurvy, a disease that killed more sailors than all storms and battles combined. For centuries, the cure for this horrific condition was a mystery, leading to the loss of millions of lives on long voyages. This book tracks the agonizingly slow acceptance of the cure: citrus fruit.Science writer Alan Cross tells the story of James Lind, who conducted the first clinical trial in history on board a ship in 1747. Despite proving that lemons and oranges cured the disease, it took the British Navy...