Sir,This recent article (PICR January 2010;1:6-10) states conventionally that “James Lind is considered thefirst physician to have conducted a controlled clinical trial of the modern era” Unfortunately there is no evidence that Lind conducted the trial he claimed, nor were there any sailors with scurvy on the Salisbury on 20 May 1747.[1]
Authors: Kerstin A Kessel; Marco M E Vogel; Carmen Kessel; Henning Bier; Tilo Biedermann; Helmut Friess; Peter Herschbach; Rüdiger von Eisenhart-Rothe; Bernhard Meyer; Marion Kiechle; Ulrich Keller; Christian Peschel; Florian Bassermann; Roland Schmid; Markus Schwaiger; Stephanie E Combs Journal: Clin Transl Radiat Oncol Date: 2018-10-04