James Lind
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James Lind (1716 – 1794), born in Edinburgh, Scotland was a Surgeon in the Royal Navy (1739-1748); physician to the Royal Naval Hospital at Haslar (1758-1783); founder of naval hygiene in the United Kingdom and promoter of the use of citrus fruits and fresh vegetables to prevent and cure scurvy. The discovery was ignored until forty years after he discovered the cure. He influenced practices of preventive medicine and nutrition among soldiers as well as sailors.
1750 - Elected Fellow, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
He was author of 'A Treatise of the Scurvy' (1753), which was one of the earliest attempts to try to understand the disease.
He is commemorated by a plaque in the Medical School of the University of Edinburgh, where he studied.
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