Open Access
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J Dentofacial Anom Orthod
Volume 15, Number 4, 2012
Labio-maxillary-palatal clefts (2)
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| Article Number | 407 | |
| Number of page(s) | 4 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/odfen/2012307 | |
| Published online | 03 December 2012 | |
J Dentofacial Anom Orthod 2012;15:407
About
The first scientific clinical study
James Lind, London, 1753
Address for correspondence: M. AMORIC, 60 rue des Écoles, 75005 Paris. michel.amoric@wanadoo.fr
Just 25 years after Pierre Fauchard published his pioneering work, The Surgeon Dentist or Treatise on the Teeth in 1728, James Lind, a Scottish physician, presented the results of his study on scurvy, the first clinical experiment in the history of medicine, which provided the methodological foundation for modern medicine.
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