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Lind J (1753). A treatise of the scurvy. In three parts. Containing an inquiry into the nature, causes and cure, of that disease. Together with a critical and chronological view of what has been published on the subject. Edinburgh: Printed by Sands, Murray and Cochran for A Kincaid and A Donaldson.

The editors are grateful to:

The Worshipful Company of Barbers (www.barberscompany.org), which licensed James Lind as a naval surgeon in 1739.

The Institute of Naval Medicine, the emblem of which is a lemon tree to mark James Lind's contribution to the health of seamen, for helping to meet some of the costs associated with adding material about James Lind to The James Lind Library.

David Harvie, author of Limeys: The Story of One Man's War Against the Establishment, Ignorance and the Deadly Scurvy, for the illustrations of Royal Hospital Haslar.

Keith Williams for supplying the Pfizer advertisment.

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