Lind, Scott, Amundsen and Scurvy

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...

Sailors' scurvy before and after James Lind--a reassessment.

Scurvy is a thousand-year-old stereotypical disease characterized by apathy, weakness, easy bruising with tiny or large skin hemorrhages, friable bleeding gums, and swollen legs. Untreated patients may die. In the last five centuries sailors and some ships' doctors used oranges and lemons to cure and prevent scurvy, yet university-trained European physicians with no experience of either the dis...

James Lind and the cure of scurvy: an experimental approach.

JAMES LIND'S place in the development of nutritional thought derives primarily from his publication A treatise of the scurvy (1753).1 The contents reveal his considerable familiarity with almost everything of significance that had been written about scurvy and the section "Bibliotheca scorbutica" is still of considerable value to students of the history of the disease. Lind presented a balanced...

James Lind (1716-94) of Edinburgh and the treatment of scurvy.

The Lind family moved to Edinburgh from Ayrshire in the 16th century. James Lind (senior) married Margaret Smellum in 1707 and they had a daughter, Joan, nine years before their son James was born on 4 October 1716. James Lind received his schooling in Edinburgh before being apprenticed at the age of 15 in 1731 to George Langlands, a member of the Incorporation of Surgeons. After completing his...

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