St. Louis, victim of scurvy, five centuries before a Scottish doctor in the British Royal Navy discovered it could be prevented by eating citrus.https://twitter.com/SmithsonianMag/status/1143821330241994754 …
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The British Royal Navy's adoption of lemon juice (later lime, hence "limeys") to stop scurvy in the 1790s was arguably the most consequential advance in military science & technology of the whole Age of Revolution (1754-1815):https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/magazine/the-age-of-scurvy …
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Ahead of his time, in medical innovations: George Washington, who had the Continental Army inoculated vs smallpox. This was common in European armies, but Washington had to overcome political resistance in Congress, lobbied Virginia to change its law:https://www.thedailybeast.com/george-washington-the-first-vaxxer …
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There are many questions of politics & society in 2019 on which we do not know George Washington's thinking, but there is no doubt that Washington today - as in 1777 - would have been a vigorous supporter of mandatory vaccinations.pic.twitter.com/g7Cz3PyawW
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