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Acknowledgements
The editors are grateful to:
BMJ for allowing the James Lind Library to link to this and other BMJ articles of historical relevance (email to Iain Chalmers from Fiona Godlee, 05 May 2015).
Snodgrass WR, Anderson T, Rennie JL (1938)
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