I enjoyed this book, though I did have a few issues with it. Parts of it seemed to switch gears from the main point of the book which is scurvy, how doctors figured out what caused it, and how it was prevented without refrigeration and other modern preservation methods. The other was the use of quite a bit of medical jargon that I had to look up. I believe that this book is supposed to be for the general public, but that didn't always seem to be the case. All that being said I did enjoy learning about the discovery that the disease wasn't contagious, how they figured out how to cure it and how the sailors at that time dealt with the disease. It was also interesting reading about some historical incidences could have been influenced by captains and crew having acute reactions to scurvy. I think it's a good read just have a good medical website to explain terms just in case.