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The History Of Clinical Trials

The History Of Clinical Trials You might not think it, but there's a long and interesting history when it comes to clinical trials. For instance, did you know that they date back to biblical times? Take a journey through time to find out more: Timeline of 562 BC important events King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon conducted an uncontrolled clinical trial. For ten days, some people were given a meat diet, and others a vegetarian one. 1025 AD Avicenna of Persia recorded the rules for a contemporary clinical trial in his book "Canon Of Medicine". 1537 Ambroise Pare, a surgeon tending to men wounded in the military, conducted an unplanned clinical trial. Instead of using burning oil to treat wounds, he used eggs, oil of roses and turpentine on 1747 some soldiers. James Lind carried out the first controlled clinical trial. He was responsible for treating sailors on a ship that were suffering from scurvy. 1872 2003 Frederick Akbar Mahomed's clinical trial help to separate chronic nephritis with secondary hypertension from essential hypertension. International Clinical Trials Dav To commemorate Lind's 250th anniversary of his clinical trial, the 20th May became known as International Clinical Trials Day. The date is when he began his controlled clinical trials on the sailors. Lives saved by notable people thanks to clinical trials 1.094 billion people Karl Landsteiner, discovery of blood groups in 1902 530 million people Edward Jenner, invented the smallpox vaccination in 1796 131 million people Bill Foege, found a way to eradicate smallpox in 1967 82 million Howard Florey, creator of penicillin for medicinal use in 1940 16.4 million Frederick Banting, invented insulin for diabetics in 1922 Sources: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3149409/ http://hyper.ahajournals.org/content/19/2/212.short http://www.scienceheroes.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=395<emid=361 COVANCE. SOLUTIONS MADE REAL

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