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  title info:
    title: James Lind, founder of nautical medicine
  name:
    name part: Roddis, Louis H. (Louis Harry)
    name part: 1886-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Biography
  genre: Biographies.
  genre: History.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 1950
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 177 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm
  abstract: The "Hippocrates of Nautical Medicine" is a title that may justly be given to the great naval surgeon of the 18th century, James Lind. His experimental demonstration of the treatment and prevention of scurvy alone led to administrative measures the probably saved the lives of more seamen then were lost in 300 years from shipwreck, naval battle, and all the other hazards of the sea. Scurvy was formerly as deadly to the sailor as plague or smallpox was to the general population. It was the Black Death of the sea. In the period from 1500, when the development of the sailing ship made long ocean voyages possible, until the nearly 1800 when Lind's discovery was put into effect, scurvy was as universal a disease of sailors as smallpox was to all persons; and just as Jenner by the discovery of vaccination was the victor over smallpox, so Lind may be regarded as the conqueror of scurvy. A bibliography of Lind's writings has been included as an appendix. It is believed that this is the first complete list of his writings in printing - Introduction.
  table of contents: Introduction -- The early life of Lind and the making of a physician in eighteenth century Scotland -- A surgeon in the navy of King George II -- Scurvy : the sea plague -- The conquest of scurvy -- Laying the foundations of naval hygiene -- Fresh water and salt water -- A pioneer of tropical medicine -- The First Physician of the Royal Hospital at Haslar -- Death, honors and appraisal of achievement -- Bibliography of James Lind, M.D. -- Sources of information -- A brief chronology of events in the general, naval, and medical history of the eighteenth century and the life of Lind.
  note: by Louis H. Roddis.
  note: "The fascinating narrative of the man who discovered the cure for scurvy -- the dread scourge of the sea and principal killer of sailors" - jacket.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-168) and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Lind, James
      name part: 1716-1794
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Lind, James
      name part: 1716-1794
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Lind, James, 1716-1794
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Lind, James
      name part: 1716-1794
  subject:
    topic: Medicine, Naval
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Naval Medicine
    topic: history
  subject:
    topic: Medicine, Naval
    topic: history
  subject:
    topic: Médecine navale
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Medicine, Naval
  classification: VG228.L5 R6
  classification: 926.1
  classification: WZ 100 L742R 1950
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    title info:
      title: James Lind, founder of nautical medicine
    name:
      name part: Roddis, Louis H. (Louis Harry), 1886-
    origin info:
      publisher: New York, H. Schuman [©1950]
    identifier: (OCoLC)651566477
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Life of science library
  identifier: 51001222
  location:
    physical location: TAG TAGC
  record info:
    record content source: NLM
    record creation date: 820128
    record change date: 20240807192611.4
    record identifier: in00004812248
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng