Jessica Halleck’s Reviews > Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentleman Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail > Status Update
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"It can be argued that...the Thirteen Colonies and their allies in the War of American Independence owe their success against Britain to the overweening, stubborn pride, or willful blindness, of Sir John Pringle who influenced the Admirality in favour of an antiscorbutic regimen that had little effect in reducing scurvy..." 'MURICA!
— May 24, 2016 06:57PM
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Jessica Halleck
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"The war in America was an organizational nightmare for the British...the determination of the colonists to shake off Britain's yoke made it nearly impossible to subdue them indefinitely." There we go. We can't blame it ALL on one guy. Rest easy, Sir Pringle. You're just responsible for thousands of deaths, not thousands of deaths AND the loss of the colonies.
— May 24, 2016 07:12PM
