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Born 1716 • Edinburgh • Scotland
Died July 13, 1794 (aged 78) • Gosport • England
Subjects Of Study United Kingdom • Citrus • diet • dietary supplement • preventive medicine • scurvy • navy

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James Lind, engraving by I. Wright after a portrait by Sir George Chalmers, 1783
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