Andersen L (2005). Jansen’s 1910 use of a single blind experiment to assess the effects of radioactive water on rheumatic diseases.

Armitage P (2002). Randomisation and alternation: a note on Diehl et al.

Bastian H (2004). Down and almost out in Scotland: George Orwell, tuberculosis and getting streptomycin in 1948.

Boylston AW (2008). Did clinical science begin in 1767?

Chalmers I (2002). MRC Therapeutic Trials Committee's report on serum treatment of lobar pneumonia, BMJ 1934.

Chalmers I (2006). Joseph Asbury Bell and the birth of randomized trials.

Chalmers I, Clarke M (2002). J Guy Scadding and the move from alternation to randomization.

Chalmers I, Toth B (2002). Thomas Graham Balfour's 1854 report of a clinical trial of belladonna given to prevent scarlet fever.

Clarke M (2004). The 1944 patulin trial of the British Medical Research Council: an example of how concerted common purpose can get reliable answers to important questions very quickly.

Cochrane AL, Blythe M (2004). Salonica. One Man’s Medicine: an autobiography of Professor Archie Cochrane.

Crofton J (2004).The MRC randomized trial of streptomycin and its legacy: a view from the clinical front line.

Davey Smith G (2006). Capitalising on Mendelian randomisation to assess the effects of treatments.

Dean ME (2003). The homeopathic mustard gas trials of 1941–42.

Dean ME (2003). 'An innocent deception': placebo controls in the St Petersburg homeopathy trial, 1829-30.

Diaz M, Neuhauser D (2004). Lessons from using randomization to assess gold treatment for tuberculosis.

Doll R (2003). Controlled trials testing two or more treatments simultaneously.

Donaldson IML (2004). Ambroise Paré’s account in the Oeuvres of 1575 of new methods of treating gunshot wounds and burns.

Donaldson IML (2005). Mesmer’s 1780 proposal for a controlled trial to test his method of treatment using ‘Animal Magnetism’.

Elwood P (2004). The first randomized trial of aspirin for heart attack and the advent of systematic overviews of trials.

Gøtzsche P (2004). Niels Finsen’s treatment for lupus vulgaris.

Gong Y, Gluud C (2003). Commentary on the Ben Cao Tu Jing (Atlas of Materia Medica), 11th century.

Grimes DA (2007). Discovering the need for randomized controlled trials in obstetrics: a personal odyssey.

Hampton J (2004). An early parallel group trial in cardiology.

Hemminki E (2005). Commentary on an early placebo controlled trial in Finland.

Houston C (2004). Ferguson's BCG research - Canada's first randomized clinical trial?

Huth EJ (2005). Quantitative evidence for judgments on the efficacy of inoculation for the prevention of smallpox: England and New England in the 1700s.

Huth EJ (2006). Transatlantic ideas on the philosophy of therapeutics in the middle of the 19th century.

Huth EJ (2006). Jules Gavarret’s Principes Généraux de Statistique Médicale: a pioneering text on the statistical analysis of the results of treatments.

Jefferson T (2006). Why the MRC randomized trials of whooping cough (pertussis) vaccines remain important 40 years after they were done.

Jenicek M (2006). Méta-analyse en médecine: the first book on systematic reviews in medicine

Joosse NP, Pormann PE (2008). Archery, mathematics, and conceptualising inaccuracies in medicine in 13th century Iraq and Syria.

Kaptchuk T (2004). Early use of blind assessment in a homeopathic scientific experiment.

Kerr CE, Milne I, Kaptchuk TJ (2007). William Cullen and a missing mind-body link in the early history of placebos.

Klar N, Donner A (2002). The impact of E.F. Lindquist's text "Statistical Analysis in Educational Research" on cluster randomization.

Lee MR (2004). The miracle of St. Alfege’s: seventy years on.

Loudon I (2002). Ignaz Phillip Semmelweis' studies of death in childbirth.

Loudon I (2002). The use of historical controls and concurrent controls to assess the effects of sulphonamides, 1936-1945.

Loudon I (2002). An early Medical Research Council controlled trial of vitamins for preventing infection.

Louis-Courvoisier M (2007). An 18th century controlled trial prompted by a shortage of hospital beds.

McPherson K, Bunker JP (2006).  Costs, risks and benefits of surgery: a milestone in the development of health services research.

Mann H, Djulbegovic B (2004). Why comparisons must address genuine uncertainties.

Marks HM (2006). The Kendrick-Eldering-(Frost) pertussis vaccine field trial.

Marks HM (2007). James Angus Doull and the well-controlled common cold.

Middleton J (2008). Pellagra and the blues song ‘Cornbread, meat and black molasses’.

Milne I, Chalmers I (2002). Hamilton's report of a controlled trial of bloodletting, 1816.

Morabia A (2004). Pierre-Charles-Alexandre Louis and the evaluation of bloodletting.

Morabia A (2006). Joseph Goldberger’s research on the prevention of pellagra.

Morabia A (2007). Claude Bernard, statistics, and comparative trials.

Nasser M, Tibi A (2006). Ibn Hindu and the science of medicine.

Neuhauser D, Diaz M, Chalmers I (2007). A puzzling omission in a great medical textbook edited by a pioneer of controlled trials.

O’Rourke K (2006).  An historical perspective on meta-analysis: dealing quantitatively with varying study results.

Olsen SF (2002). The People's League of Health trial.

Peters L (2006). James Lind’s descendants.

Pollock JI (2005). Two controlled trials of supplementary feeding of school children in the 1920s.

Pollock JI (2003). A controlled trial using a factorial design reported in 1946.

Scadding JG (2002). Reflections on my studies of the effects of sulphonamide drugs in bacillary dysentery in Egypt, 1943-1944.

Senn SJ (2003). Cushny and Peebles and optical isomers, 1905.

Silverman WA (2003). Personal reflections on lessons learned from randomized trials involving newborn infants, 1951 to 1967.

Silverman WA, Chalmers I (2002). Casting and drawing lots: a time-honoured way of dealing with uncertainty and for ensuring fairness.

Sinclair L (2007). Recognising, treating and understanding pernicious anaemia.

Stolberg M (2006). Inventing the randomized double-blind trial: The Nuremberg salt test of 1835.

Stoll S (2004). Paul Martini's Methodology of therapeutic investigation.

Sutton G (2004). James Lind aboard Salisbury.

Tibi S (2005). Al-Razi and Islamic medicine in the 9th Century.

Tröhler U (2003). Cheselden's 1740 presentation of data on age-specific mortality after lithotomy.

Tröhler U (2003). Lind and scurvy: 1747 to 1795.

Tröhler U (2003). James Lind and the evaluation of clinical practice.

Tröhler U (2003). James Lind at Haslar Hospital 1758-1774: a methodological theorist.

Tröhler U (2003). John Clark 1780 & 1792: learning from properly kept records.

Tröhler U (2003). Edward Alanson 1782: responsibility in surgical innovation.

Tröhler U (2003). Withering's 1785 appeal for caution when reporting on a new medicine.

Tröhler U (2003). MacLean 1818: comparing like with like and recognising ethical double standards in therapeutic experimentation.

Tröhler U (2007). An early 18th century proposal for improving medicine by tabulating and analysing practice.

Vandenbroucke JP (2003). Adolphe Vorderman's 1897 study of beriberi among prison inmates in the Dutch East Indies: an exemplar of scrupulous efforts to avoid bias.

Vandenbroucke JP (2003). The contribution of William Fletcher's 1907 report to finding a cause and cure for beriberi.

Vandenbroucke JP (2003). Thalidomide: an unanticipated adverse effect.

Vandenbroucke JP (2003). Aspirin: an unanticipated beneficial effect.

Vessey MP (2006). Learning how to control biases in studies to identify adverse effects of drugs.

Volmink J (2005). The willow as a Hottentot (Khoikhoi) remedy for rheumatic fever.

Weingarten S (2003). Food in Daniel 1:1-16: the first controlled experiment?