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Bookmark or Share- James Lind: The man who helped to cure scurvy with lemonsJames Lind is remembered as the man who helped to conquer a killer disease. His reported experiment on board a naval ship in 1747 showed that oranges and lemons were a cure for...
- James Lind - Wikipedia[1] James Lind FRSE FRCPE (4 October 1716 – 13 July 1794) was a Scottish physician. He was a pioneer of naval hygiene in the Royal Navy. By conducting one of the first ever clinical trials, [2] [3] he developed the theory that citrus fruits cured scurvy.
- James Lind and scurvy: 1747 to 1795. - The James Lind LibraryDuring a ten-week absence from shore, 80 out of 350 sailors were struck down by scurvy, and Lind’s prospective controlled experiment – in which he compared the relative merits of six treatments then in use for treating the disease in 12 patients – began on board on 20 May 1747.
- James Lind (1716 – 1794) | Alumni - The University of EdinburghBorn into a family of merchants in Edinburgh, James Lind registered at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1731, eventually becoming a surgeon's mate and taking to the seas across the globe, experiencing at first hand the harsh realities of scurvy-related deaths on board naval ships.
- James Lind | Naval Surgeon, Scurvy Treatment | BritannicaA British naval surgeon (1739–48) and a physician at the Haslar Hospital for men of the Royal Navy, Gosport (1758–94), Lind observed thousands of cases of scurvy, typhus, and dysentery and the conditions on board ship that caused them.
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