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James Lind

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Lind, James 

Born 1716; died July 13, 1794, in Gosport. English naval physician; founder of naval hygiene in England.

Lind received his medical education in Edinburgh. From 1758 until the end of his life he was a physician at the Haslar Naval Hospital. In 1753 he gave a detailed description of scurvy and proposed means of treating and preventing it. He described diseases of Europeans in tropical countries, typhus, and many diseases of sailors. Lind introduced a number of hygienic devices on ships (apparatus for obtaining fresh water from seawater, for example) and proposed the use of special hospital ships in tropical ports.

WORKS

Lind’s Treatise on Scurvy. Edinburgh, 1953.
In Russian translation:
Opyt o deistvitel’neishikh sposobakh k sokhraneniiu zdorov’ia morskikh sluzhitelei. . . . Nikolaev, 1798.

REFERENCE

Hudson, A. E., and A. Herbert. “James Lind: His Contributions to Shipboard Sanitation.” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 1956, vol. 11, no. 1.
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