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James Lind
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A Scottish naval physician who in 1747 conducted one of the earliest controlled clinical trials, testing remedies for scurvy among sailors and finding citrus fruit effective, decades before vitamin C was identified as the causal factor. His trial is often cited as a founding case study in both nutrition science and clinical trial methodology.
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