![]() He continued to believe scurvy was a digestive disease caused by blocked sweat glands.įast forward to the present: Vitamins are assumed to be some kind of miraculous panacea. One glitch was that they assumed bottled lemon juice would do the trick they didn’t know that the heat used in the bottling process destroyed the vitamin C.Īlas, poor Lind! He didn’t understand the significance of his experiment. It took a long time for the Royal Navy to adopt fresh citrus fruits. This eventually led to the nickname “Limeys” for British sailors. Lind’s experiment established that scurvy could be cured (and it can also be prevented) by adding fresh citrus fruits to the diet. The first five proved useless the last one worked like a charm. two spoonfuls of vinegar three times a day.a nutmeg-sized paste of garlic, mustard seed, horseradish, balsam of Peru, and gum myrrh three times a day. ![]() 25 drops of elixir of vitriol three times a day.James Lind compared these six proposed remedies: Scurvy, a disease caused by vitamin C deficiency, was rampant in the British Royal Navy, disabling and killing more sailors than combat, storms, shipwreck, and all other causes combined. ![]() ![]() In 1747, one of the first controlled clinical trials in the history of medical science involved vitamin C, though the researcher had no idea what a vitamin was the vitamin wasn’t discovered until 1912. ![]()
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