James Lind and the prevention of scurvy
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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 from which academic dissections, and ultimately the modern study of human anatomy evolved.
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THE CAUSES AND CURES OF SCURVY How Modern was James Lind’s Methodology?∗
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)...
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Bulletin of the World Health Organization | October 2004, 82 (10) 1 Head of Library and Information Services, Royal College of Physicians, 9 Queen Street, Edinburgh EH2 1JQ, Scotland (email: [email protected]). Correspondence should be sent to this author. 2 Editor, James Lind Library, The James Lind Initiative, Oxford, England. Ref. No. 03-006361 Documenting the evidence: the case of scurvy I...
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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...
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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...
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Medical History
دوره 20 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1976