[DOC] [TLE] James Lind - Wikipedia [PAR] James Lind FRSE FRCPE (4 October 1716  13 July 1794) was a Scottish 
physician. He was a pioneer of naval hygiene in the Royal Navy. By conducting 
the first ever clinical trial, he developed the theory that citrus fruits cured scurvy. ... 
Scurvy is a disease now known to be caused by a Vitamin C deficiency, but in 
Lind's... [DOC] [TLE] Scurvy - Wikipedia [PAR] Scurvy is a disease resulting from a lack of vitamin C. Early symptoms include 
weakness, ... A Scottish surgeon in the Royal Navy, James Lind, was the first to 
prove it could ... It took another 40 years before the British Navy began giving out 
lemon juice ... The knowledge that consuming foods containing vitamin C is a 
cure for... [DOC] [TLE] BBC - History - Historic Figures: James Lind (1716 - 1794) [PAR] James Lind  Lind was a Scottish doctor, a pioneer of naval hygiene and expert 
on ... Lind selected 12 men from the ship, all suffering from scurvy, and divided 
them into six pairs, giving each group different additions to their basic diet. ... 
While there was nothing new about his discovery - the benefits of lime juice had 
been... [DOC] [TLE] James Lind and scurvy: 1747 to 1795. - The James Lind Library The ... [PAR] Lind's Treatise of the Scurvy (Lind 1753) is a good illustration of the basis for ... of 
the disease were by lay seamen and doctors who had never been to sea. ... 80 
out of 350 sailors were struck down by scurvy, and Lind's prospective controlled 
... lemon juice was by no means a new cure (a fact of which Lind was perfectly... [DOC] [TLE] Who was James Lind, and what exactly did he achieve? - The ... [PAR] The plaque suggests that James Lind is The Hippocrates of Naval Medicine. .... 
twelve sailors with scurvy, who were 'as similar as I could have them,' who were 
... Dr James Lind's heroic efforts to find a cure for the dreaded disease of scurvy 
in the ... the issue of an order by the admiralty to supply the navy with lemon juice 
in... [DOC] [TLE] Sailors' scurvy before and after James Lind  a reassessment [PAR] ... sailors and some ships' doctors used oranges and lemons to cure and prevent 
scurvy, yet ... the 20th century scurvy was shown to be due to a deficiency of the 
essential food ... substituted for lemon juice in about 1860, the disease returned, 
especially among ... Key words: Antarctic, ascorbic acid, sailors, scurvy, vitamin C
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The discoverer of citrus fruit as a cure for scurvy, Lind was the son of Margaret ... (
During the Seven Years War 133,708 men were lost to the navy by disease or ... 
Although Lind is now recognized as the greatest of naval doctors and as the 
father... [DOC] [TLE] A brief history of vitamin C and its deficiency, scurvy [PAR] Ascorbic acid, James Lind, ... James Lind's controlled trial in 1747, which showed 
that citrus fruit cured scurvy ... Amongst all the Islands to give us fresh food. ... 
Scurvy, vitamin C deficiency, was a serious occupational disease of sailors in the 
..... Local indians taught them to prepare juice of white cedar and "after drinking it
... [DOC] [TLE] BBC - History - British History in depth: Captain Cook and the ... [PAR] Feb 17, 2011 ... Vasco da Gama lost two thirds of his crew to the disease while ... Now we know 
that scurvy was a cocktail of vitamin deficiencies, ... since 1753, when James Lind 
published A Treatise of the Scurvy, ... and citrus juice are the only substantial 
sources of vitamin C. But .... Dr Lucy Worsley (If Walls Could Talk). [DOC] [TLE] Vitamin C- James Lind Giving Citrus Fruits to Sailors with Scurvy ... [PAR] Vitamin C- James Lind Giving Citrus Fruits to Sailors with Scurvy - DEC679-36 ... 
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Question: Scottish doctor James Lind cured this vitamin deficiency disease among sailors by giving them citrus juice
Answer: Scurvy