Question

Who discovered the scurvy disease​

Answer 1

Answer:

James Lind is remembered as the man who helped to conquer a killer disease. His reported experiment on board a naval ship in 1747 showed that oranges and lemons were a cure for scurvy.

Answer 2

Explanation:

James Lind is remembered as the man who helped to conquer a killer disease. His reported experiment on board a naval ship in 1747 showed that oranges and lemons were a cure for scurvy. But why did the Royal Navy, which celebrates the tercentenary of Lind's birth on 4 October 2016, take nearly half a century to act on his findings?

For 18th Century sailors, disease during long sea voyages was often more dangerous than enemy action.

One British expedition to raid Spanish holdings in the Pacific Ocean in the 1740s lost 1,300 of an original complement of 2,000 men to illness.

The commander, George Anson, said "almost the whole crew" was afflicted by symptoms including a "luxuriancy of funguous flesh... putrid gums and... the most dreadful terrors".

Many sailors suffered "a strange dejection of the spirits" and lay immobile, while others who "resolved to get out of their hammocks, have died before they could well reach the deck ....