Lloyd attributes the time lag of introducing lemon juice in the British Navy primarily to misleading reports from Cook’s voyages and reports from Cook himself and secondarily to the many competing remedies, failure to experiment properly, and to Lind’s own lack of prominence. Lloyd’s “The introduction of lemon juice as a cure for scurvy”. Jane Teas has kindly called my attention to C. Lind, A Treatise of the Scurvy (1753) (University Press, Edinburgh, reprinted 1953).Įncyclopaedia Britannica (Benton, Chicago, 1964) vol. Passmore, Human Nutrition and Dietetics (William & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1959), p.419. Purchas, Hakluytas Posthumus or Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and others (1625) (reprinted by James MacLehose and Sons, Glasgow, 1905), vol.2, pp.392–398. The Holy Bible, King James Version, Daniel 1: 12–15.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |