Did Cook's sailors have Tapanui 'flu? --chronic fatigue syndrome on the Resolution
St George, I.M.
New Zealand Medical Journal 109(1014): 15-17
1996
ISSN/ISBN: 0028-8446 PMID: 8628527 Document Number: 465387
The 1982 publication of the Resolution journal of Johann George Reinhold Forster provided justification for his recognition as a scientist, and gave a remarkable insight into his character. It also included an account of an illness suffered by many of the sloop's crew, including Forster, after a period ashore at Queen Charlotte Sound. The symptoms of the illness were remarkably similar to those now clustered as the chronic fatigue syndrome.