Editing James Lind (section)

==Early life==
Lind was born in [[Edinburgh]], Scotland, in 1716 into a family of merchants, then headed by his father, James Lind. He had an elder sister.<ref>{{cite book | last=Bown | first=Stephen | title=Scurvy | page=110 | year=2003 | publisher=Summersdale | isbn=978-1-84024-357-4 }}</ref> He was educated at the [[Royal High School, Edinburgh]].{{citation needed|date=November 2023}}

In 1731 he began his medical studies as an apprentice of George Langlands,<ref name="ADC1997">{{cite journal | last=Dunn | first=Peter | title=James Lind (1716–94) of Edinburgh and the treatment of scurvy | journal=Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition | volume=76 | issue=1 | pages=64–65 | publisher=British Medical Journal Publishing Group | location=United Kingdom | date=1997 | doi=10.1136/fn.76.1.F64 | pmc=1720613 | pmid=9059193 }}</ref> a fellow of the Incorporation of Surgeons which preceded the [[Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh]]. In 1739, he entered the Navy as a surgeon's mate, serving in the [[Mediterranean]], off the coast of West Africa and in the West Indies.<ref>{{cite web| title =James Lind (1716–1794) | publisher =British Broadcasting Corporation |date=January 2009 | url =https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/lind_james.shtml | access-date =17 January 2009}}</ref> By 1747 he had become surgeon of {{HMS|Salisbury|1746|6}} in the [[Channel Fleet]], and conducted his experiment on scurvy while that ship was patrolling the Bay of Biscay. Just after that patrol he left the Navy, wrote his [[Doctor of Medicine|MD]] thesis on [[venereal diseases]] and earned his degree from the [[University of Edinburgh Medical School]], and was granted a licence to practise in Edinburgh.<ref name="ADC1997"/>