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John Forbes (1787-1861)
Acknowledgements
The editors are grateful to:
The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh for making available the portrait of John Forbes (1787-1861).
Forbes J (1846)
RELEVANT TOPICS
Key articles
- Agnew RAL (2008).
John Forbes FRS (1787-1861).
Other articles
- Dean ME (2003).
‘An innocent deception’: placebo controls in the St Petersburg homeopathy trial, 1829-30. - Kerr CE, Milne I, Kaptchuk TJ (2007).
William Cullen and a missing mind-body link in the early history of placebos. - Neuhauser D, Diaz M (2007).
Use of rotation to allocate patients to homeopathic or regular medical services in Cook County Hospital, Chicago, 1882. - Moore W (2009).
John Hunter: learning from natural experiments, ‘placebos’, and the state of mind of a patient in the 18th century. - Kaptchuk TJ (2011).
A brief history of the evolution of methods to control of observer biases in tests of treatments.