THE CAUSES AND CURES OF SCURVY How Modern was James Lind’s Methodology?∗
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The Scottish physician James Lind is the most celebrated name in the history of research into the causes and cures of scurvy. This is due to the famous experiment he conducted in 1747 on H.M.S. Salisbury in order to compare the efficiency of six popular treatments for scurvy. This experiment is generally regarded as the first controlled trial in clinical science (see e.g. Carpenter 1986, p. 52). The experiment relates to the possible cures of scurvy, not to its causes. The traditional view is that Lind was much less innovative in his research on the causes of scurvy. In 1867 the French naval surgeon H. Rey, in his analysis and critique of Lind’s Treatise of the Scurvy, complained that, while Lind relied only on experiments in matters of therapeutics, his theory on the causes of scurvy was based on “ideas that are far removed from any kind of scientific precision”. According to Rey, Lind accepted some ideas on the
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