Scurvy was a scourge amongst sailors, with hundreds of thousands dying during the American colonial period. Before the concept of vitamin deficiency was known to the world, physicians struggled to find what caused the disease.

Join Dan Marshall as he demonstrates the tools and techniques of turning simple ingredients into medicine in the 17th & 18th centuries. Dan will explore both European and American colonial sources that shed light on how this knowledge crossed the Atlantic and how it was put into practice here.