James Lind: Laudatory Address

James Lind, Founder of Nautical Medicine

botanical terminology and with about as much of the subject matter as may be gotten from a text on mycology or plant physiology which stresses the topic. As a summary and discussion of its special subject this book serves a valuable function, but it is certainly not for casual reading. One notices the stylistic limitations so common to reviews. There is scarcely a paragraph without a half dozen...

The strange disappearances of James Lind.

James Lind and the disclosure of failure.

Though James Lind is renowned as a pioneer of the clinical trial, he records the 1747 trial aboard the Salisbury in passing, never followed up on it, never campaigned for clinical trials as a means of medical discovery, and eventually pronounced scurvy an insoluble enigma. The case can be made that in confessing his lack of an unfailing remedy for scurvy and his trouble making sense of the dise...

The James Lind Alliance: tackling research mismatches.

James Lind and the prevention of scurvy

public dissection since the Alexandrine era was a post-mortem examination conducted to determine cause of death for legal purposes. This paper seeks to find precedents for that procedure in the decretals of Innocent III. A spirit of inquiry is discernible in those legal documents which helped to supply the impetus necessary to inaugurate the acceptance of scientific post-mortem examinations fro...