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The Antarctic Expedition That Changed Modern Medicine
Time
5/12/2021
Julian Sancton
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The Belgica, stuck fast in the pack ice of Antarctica s Bellingshausen sea, in 1898. Library of Congress. Frederick A. Cook Society.
The American explorer Frederick Albert Cook is remembered today, if he’s remembered at all, for having likely lied about reaching the North Pole in 1908. Hailed as the Neil Armstrong of his day when he announced he’d seen the top of the world, he very quickly became the Lance Armstrong of his day after being pegged as a fraud.
But years earlier, as the surgeon on a grueling Antarctic expedition, the subject of my new book ....

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