Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft. 1818. Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. The 1818 Text. Edited by James Rieger. Chicago The University of Chicago Press, 1982. 

AO/FRS - scavenges DPPH, nitrite (NO -), OH, 02 02-, ONOO- regenerates a-Tocopherol from a-Tocopheryl radical antiageing nutriceutical vitamin C-deficiency disease scurvy cured by lime juice — found by Dr James Lind promoted by Captain James Cook in British navy (18th century) — hence limeys Dr Lind befriended poet Percy Shelley was thence the source for Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecrafi Shelley... 

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus (Harmondsworth, 1985), p. 53. 

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, in The Novels and Selected Works of Mary Shelley ed. Nora Crook and Betty T. Bennett (London William Pickering, 1996), 1 25—27, 33—34. See also Crosbie Smith, Frankenstein and Natural Magic, in Frankenstein, Creation,and Monstrosity, ed. Stephen Bann (London Reaktion Books, 1994), 39—59. 

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