Seasickness: Exploring Disease on Boats - Great Lakes Museum
Monday, February 2, 2026
- Time
- 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
- Venue
- Great Lakes Museum, Kingston, K7L 2Y2
- Price
- $6
Ever wonder what sailors feared more than storms? Join Rowena McGowan from the Museum of Health Care as she reveals the secrets behind two diseases that haunted every sailor: scurvy and seasickness.
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Join Rowena McGowan from the Canadian Museum of Health Care as she reveals the journey towards treating several diseases that afflicted sailors, including scurvy and sea sickness. Discover the strange medical experiments, surprising mistakes, and lucky breakthroughs that finally solved these mysteries. This talk shows how doctors of the past paved the way for medicine today. Sometimes the answers were right in front of them all along...
Venue
Great Lakes Museum
55 Ontario St.
Kingston
K7L 2Y2
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