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Key People

James Lind, engraving by I. Wright after a portrait by Sir George Chalmers, 1783

James Lind

British physician

George Richards Minot

George Richards Minot

American physician

George H. Whipple

George H. Whipple

American pathologist

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William P. Murphy

American physician

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Sir Gilbert Blane, 1st Baronet

Scottish physician