Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Treatise on the Scurvy

  • Musical evenings on HMS Bounty

    Stewart JustmanMissoula, Montana, United States Dispatched to Tahiti in 1787 to gather breadfruit trees to be transplanted to the West Indies, HMS Bounty was a small ship with every possible inch allotted to botanical cargo. Spare too was the crew, which included no marines who might have acted as Lieutenant William Bligh’s bodyguards in the…