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The Captain Cook Birthplace Museum faces closure ... hygiene and a healthy diet led to a dramatic decrease in deaths from scurvy. From 1600 to 1800, scurvy killed nearly 2 million European ...

Sides’s latest effort, “The Wide Wide Sea,” is a gripping account of Captain James Cook’s final voyage ... He’d figured out how to avoid scurvy and brought home information of ...