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Exhaustive treatise on scurvy was published by:
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The correct answer is  James Lind was a Scottish physician. In 1753 he published a treatise of the scurvy was published by James Lind. Scurvy is a disease now known to be caused by a Vitamin C deficiency, but in Lind's day, the concept of vitamins was unknown. Ref: Diseases: Finding the Cure By Robe Mulcah.