All you need to know about: clinical trials
A sailor’s experiment In 1747, Scottish naval surgeon James Lind performed what’s now thought of the world’s first managed clinical trial aboard HMS Salisbury. Scurvy, an endemic inflicting bleeding gums and fatigue, was devastating for sailors. Unaware of nutritional vitamins, at that stage, Lind divided 12 affected sailors into six pairs, every receiving a distinct […]





