Experiment versus Authority

Abstract
IT is generally agreed today that the advent of the controlled clinical trial has been one of the most notable advances in modern medical practice. The type of trial that has evolved over the past 25 years is recognized as an essential part of the clinical evaluation of remedies.1 There is increasing interest in evaluating the effects of surgical operations, as well as drugs, by the method of a controlled trial. It has become apparent that the only way to separate the effects of most types of therapy from those of patient selection is by a study in which patients . . .

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