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The translation of research evidence into practice, can sometimes take a very long time.
"In 1601 on a voyage from England to India, Capt James Lancaster gave three teaspoons of lemon juice per person daily on one of his four ships. Halfway through the journey, 40 percent of the crew from the ships who did not get juice died of scurvy; no crew members died of scurvy on the ship that received juice.
Yet practice was not changed.
In 1753 James Lind, a ship's surgeon, published A Treatise of the Scurvy, one of the earliest accounts of a prospective clinical trial, comparing six scurvy treatments.
But practice did not change.
Other rations of juices were tested and provided, but it was not until 1865 that the British Board of trade mandated citrus fruit for all merchant marine vessels. Finally, practice was fully implemented."
Joshi, M. (2009). 264 years is too long. Hospitals & Health Networks, 83(3), 52.
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