Personnel Profile
James Lind
Naval surgeon and physician
James Lind served in a role connected with the Royal Navy during eighteenth century. This career belongs to the broader professional and institutional history of Britain’s maritime world.
He is associated with naval medicine and the study of scurvy. This formed part of the way maritime service operated through discipline, knowledge, administration, exploration, or specialist expertise.
He is significant because this biography helps widen the personnel record beyond the most familiar names. James Lind belongs to the broader human history of British naval and maritime service.