It was a Scottish surgeon in the Royal Navy, James Lind who first proved it could be treated with citrus fruit in experiments he described in his 1753 book, A Treatise of the Scurvy, though his advice was not implemented by the Royal Navy for several decades.

This was the derivation of Alemanni used by Edward Gibbon, in his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and by the anonymous contributor of notes assembled from the papers of Nicolas Fréret, published in 1753, who noted that it was the name used by outsiders for those who called themselves the Suevi.

* A manual of theology in 4 vols, Theologia eclectica, moralis et scholastica ( Augsburg, 1752 ; revised by Pope Benedict XIV for the 1753 edition published at Bologna )

The genuineness of the Political Testament, published in his name at Lausanne in 1753, has been questioned.

In 1753 he published A treatise of the scurvy, which was virtually ignored.

* The starting points, the time from which these codes are in effect ( retroactively ), vary from group to group. In botany the starting point will often be in 1753 ( the year Carl Linnaeus first published Species Plantarum ).

The first four volumes were published on 13 November 1753, and in December the next two would follow.

Ulmus americana was first described and named by Carl Linnaeus in his Species Plantarum, published in 1753.

Hogarth wrote and published his ideas of artistic design in his book The Analysis of Beauty ( 1753 ).

Brassica napobrassica was first validly published by Carl Linnaeus in his 1753 work Species Plantarum as a variety of B. oleracea: B. oleracea var.

They had three children together: Richard ( 1708 – 1782 ), an eccentric, playwright and artist whose engravings for Thomas Gray ’ s ‘ A Long Story ’ were published in 1753, and two daughters, one named Johanna.

In 1748 a folio edition of Drayton's complete works was published under the editorial supervision of William Oldys, and again in 1753 there appeared an issue in four volumes quarto.

His son Frederick was the author of Sermons on Several Important Subjects and Sermons on Christian Zeal, both published in 1753.

He wrote his Reflexions upon Exile, and in 1717, his letter to Sir William Wyndham in explanation of his position, generally considered one of his finest compositions, but not published till 1753 after his death.

The name Atropa belladonna was published by Linnaeus in Species Plantarum in 1753.

A complete edition of Hoffmann's works, with a life of the author, was published at Geneva in 1740, to which supplements were added in 1753 and 1760.

The book came into the hands of Thomas Coxeter, and subsequently into those of Theophilus Cibber, furnishing the basis of the Lives of the Poets ( 1753 ) published with Cibber's name on the title page ( though most of it was written by Robert Shiels ).

Kalm's journal of his travels was published as En Resa til Norra America ( Stockholm, 1753 – 1761 ).

In 1753, Lord Hardwicke's Marriage Act was passed, which required, under pain of annulment, that banns should be published or a licence obtained ; that, in either case, the marriage should be solemnized in church by a recognised clergyman ; and that in the case of minors, marriage by licence must be by the consent of parent or guardian ; and that at least two witnesses must be present.

The first scientific name for Leontopodium alpinum which was validly published according to the current binomial nomenclature is Gnaphalium alpinum in the first edition ( 1753 ) of Linnaeus's Species Plantarum.

His numerous medical writings, or materials for the history of medical education at Montpellier, are now forgotten, but the work published by him anonymously in 1753 has secured for him a permanent reputation.

However, centuries of cultural dominance of the Germans left a German mark on those societies ; for instance, the first modern grammar of the Czech language by Josef Dobrovský ( 1753 – 1829 ) – " Ausführliches Lehrgebäude der böhmischen Sprache " ( 1809 ) – was published in German because the Czech language was not used in academic scholarship.

** a survey of the subsequent careers of senior wranglers during the 157 years ( 1753 – 1909 ) in which the results of Cambridge ’ s mathematical tripos were published in order of merit.

Jago's best-known poem, " The Blackbirds ", was first printed in Hawkesworths Adventurer ( No. 37, March 13, 1753 ), and was generally attributed to Gilbert West, but Jago published it in his own name, with other poems, in Robert Dodsley's Collection of Poems ( vol.

The Supplement was published in London in 1753 in two folio volumes with 3307 pages and 12 plates.

On 7 June 1753, King George II gave his formal assent to the Act of Parliament which established the British Museum.

Also the general Museum archives which date from its foundation in 1753 are overseen by this department ; the individual departments have their own separate archives and libraries covering their various areas of responsibility, which can be consulted by the public on application.

For tho'all nations count universally by tens ( originally occasioned by the number of digits on both hands ) yet 8 is a far more complete and commodious number ; since it is divisible into halves, quarters, and half quarters ( or units ) without a fraction, of which subdivision ten is uncapable ...." In a later treatise on Octave computation ( 1753 ) Jones concluded: " Arithmetic by Octaves seems most agreeable to the Nature of Things, and therefore may be called Natural Arithmetic in Opposition to that now in Use, by Decades ; which may be esteemed Artificial Arithmetic.

For the 1753 revision, the best are by L. W. Tancock ( Penguin, 1949 — though he divides the 2-part novel into a number of chapters ), Donald M. Frame ( Signet, 1961 — which notes differences between the 1731 and 1753 editions ), Angela Scholar ( Oxford, 2004, with extensive notes and commentary ), and Andrew Brown ( Hesperus, 2004, with a foreword by Germaine Greer ).

The word " parachute " comes from the French prefix paracete, originally from the Greek, meaning to protect against, and chute, the French word for " fall ", and it was originally coined, as a hybrid word which meant literally " that which protects against a fall ", by the French aeronaut François Blanchard ( 1753 – 1809 ) in 1785.

During this time, under the direction of court architects, Joseph Saint-Pierre and Carl von Gontard, numerous courtly buildings and attractions were created: the Margravial Opera House with its richly furnished baroque theatre ( 1744 – 1748 ), the New ' Castle ' and Sun Temple ( 1749 – 1753 ) at the Hermitage, the New Palace with its courtyard garden ( 1754 ff ) to replace the Old Palace which had burned down through the carelessness of the margrave, and the magnificent row of buildings in today's Friedrichstraße.

The British philologist Robert Nares ( 1753 – 1829 ) says that the word hoax was coined in the late 18th century as a contraction of the verb hocus, which means " to cheat ", " to impose upon " or " to befuddle often with drugged liquor ".

According to the 1702 data, the population of the town was composed of 215 Orthodox and 13 Catholic houses, while according to the 1753 data, the population of the town numbered 3, 843 people, of which 3, 110 were ethnic Serbs.

In 1753, the first modern dinoflagellates were described by Henry Baker as " Animalcules which cause the Sparkling Light in Sea Water ", and named by Otto Friedrich Müller in 1773.

Around 1753 he baptized the plot " Leo's Mountain " ( in Swedish: Lisas berg ) which eventually became Liseberg.

In 1753, on the eve of the French and Indian War ( Seven Years War ), messengers came to the Shawnee from tribes further west, inviting them to leave the Valley and cross the Alleghenies, which they did the following year.

The idea of building a bridge across the Avon Gorge originated in 1753, with a bequest in the will of Bristolian merchant William Vick, who left £ 1, 000 invested with instructions that when the interest had accumulated to £ 10, 000, it should be used for the purpose of building a stone bridge between Clifton Down ( which was in Gloucestershire, outside the City of Bristol, until the 1830s ) and Leigh Woods in Somerset.

Adams, as well as her husband, was an active member of First Parish Church in Quincy, which became Unitarian in doctrine by 1753.

Sir Hans Sloane, 1st Baronet, PRS ( 16 April 1660 – 11 January 1753 ) was an Irish physician and collector, notable for bequeathing his collection to the United Kingdom which became the foundation of the British Museum.

In 1753, an effort was made to have the division which had been made officially recognized.

The bell was ready in March 1753, and Norris reported that the lettering ( which included the founders ' names and the year ) was even clearer on the new bell than on the old.

In 1753, a turnpike was built on the Tadcaster to Otley road, which runs through Boston Spa.

Indeed, when the German theologian Johann Ludwig Fricker ( 1729-1766 ) visited Diviš in 1753 and saw the Denis d ' or with his own eyes, he referred to it in a journal of the university of Tübingen as an " Electrisch-Musicalische Instrument "-the literal translation of which is " electric musical instrument ".