Scurvy Cure James Lind 1747 Eat the Lemon ~ Comfort Colors Tee

Twelve Sick Sailors ~ Six Remedies ~ One Winner

In May 1747 a ship's surgeon named James Lind split twelve scurvy patients aboard HMS Salisbury into pairs and gave each pair a different remedy. The two men on oranges and lemons got better. The rest did not. It counts among the first clinical trials ever run, and the navy waited until 1795 to act on it.

• For the one who reads the study, not the headline: Buy it for the nurse who asks about the sample, the doctor who loves a good trial, and the friend who puts lemon in everything on principle.
• Adoption, leisurely: Forty eight years from proven cure to standard issue is a pace hospital committees would recognize.
• Charted in: Part of Pirate History & Legends, where the cure was in the fruit bowl the whole time.