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The Remains Of A 17th-Century Barbary Pirate Ship Were Uncovered In The Strait Of Gibraltar
In 2005, a team of shipwreck hunters was searching for the HMS Sussex, an English Navy ship that sank in the Strait of ...
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A 1747 study found the treatment for scurvy. A man accused of ‘quackery’ may have inspired it
The design for a medical study in 1743 that was never carried out may have inspired James Lind’s groundbreaking clinical ...
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Sussex shipwreck hunter hopes OBE will help Windrush mission
David Mearns, a marine scientist and oceanographer based in Midhurst, told the PA news agency that recognition for his services to locating and recovering historic shipwrecks in the New Year ...
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How an 18th century instrument maker may have inspired the first clinical trial of the modern age
The first controlled clinical trial recorded in the modern age, carried out in 1747 to test treatments for scurvy, may have ...
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British under fire over claim Henry VIII cannons smuggled from Irish waters into Tower of London
They belonged to HMS Post, a warship ... of the cannons and suggested they might have been raised from the Sussex coast. In June 1993, Kelly concluded that British officials were “aware the ...
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A 1747 study found the treatment for scurvy. A man accused of ‘quackery’ may have inspired it
Then, Lind pursued his trial of scurvy treatments. On May 20, 1747, Lind assessed a dozen patients with scurvy aboard the Royal Navy ship HMS Salisbury while at sea. All 12 patients were in the ...