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    James Lind

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    Let it them be put into any clean oven vessel of china or stoneware which should be wider at the top than at the bottom. so that there may be the largest surface above to favor the evaporation. ↗


    — James Lind

    #any #bottom #china #clean #favor

    The consequence was, that the most sudden and visible good effects were perceived from the use of oranges and lemons; one of those who had taken them, being at the end of 6 days fit for duty. ↗


    — James Lind

    #consequence #days #duty #effects #end

    The other was the best recovered in his condition; and being now pretty well, was appointed nurse to the rest of the sick. Next to oranges, I thought the cyder had the best effects. ↗


    — James Lind

    #being #best #condition #effects #had

    They all in general had putrid gums, the spots and lassitude, with weakness of their knees. ↗


    — James Lind

    #had #knees #spots #their #weakness

    They continued but six days under this course, having consumed the quantities that could be spared. ↗


    — James Lind

    #continued #could #course #days #having






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    There was no serious outbreak of scurvy. In 1740 the catastrophic result of Anson's circumnavigation attracted much attention in Europe; out of 1900 men 1400 had died most of them allegedly from having contracted scurvy. According to the Regulations and Instructions relating to His Majesty's Service at Sea which had been publiJames Lindd for the first time in 1733 by the Admiralty sailors were entitled to a gallon of weak beer daily (5/6 of the usual British gallon equivalent to the modern American gallon or slightly more than three and a half litres).

    He argued for the health benefits of better ventilation aboard naval ships the improved cleanliness of sailors' bodies clothing and bedding and below-deck fumigation with sulphur and arsenic. He also proposed that fresh water could be obtained by distilling sea water. James Lind FRSE FRCPE (4 October 1716 in Edinburgh – 13 July 1794 in Gosport) was a Scottish physician.

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