Discussion Prevalent in the age of sail, scurvy became a major cause of morbidity and
mortality among ships' crews. Effective treatment was described in 1753 by James Lind, a …

Medical interventions in our time are always based on supporting evidence, most often in
the form of a randomized controlled trial1–'the gold standard type of study that forms the …

The astuteness of the naval physician James Lind in the 1740s led him to postulate that the
remarkably high incidence (approaching 25%) of scurvy in crew members might be caused …

Scurvy took a terrible toll in the Age of Sail, killing more sailors than were lost in all sea
battles combined. The threat of the disease kept ships close to home and doomed those …

British physician James Lind is known as the" father of naval hygiene in England" because
he was the first to recommend that citrus fruit and lemon juice be included in the diets of …

Just 250 years ago James Lind, a Scottish naval surgeon, published his Treatise of the
Scurvy. 1 The disease in question was killing thousands of people every year and had …

The 250‐year anniversary of Cook's landfall at Botany Bay on 28 April 1770, approximately
half way through a global circumnavigation, was an extraordinary maritime undertaking. An …

You might think so. Scurvy was blamed for the deaths of at least two million sailors between
the 16th and 18th centuries. James Lind, a Royal Navy surgeon, is credited with carrying out …

Vitamin C, also known as ascorbic acid, is a co-factor in multiple enzymatic reactions
including that of collagen synthesis. Due to the absence of the enzyme L-gulonolactone …

This section looks back to some ground-breaking contributions to public health, adding a
commentary on their significance from a modern-day perspective. To complement the theme …