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Acknowledgements
The editors are grateful to:
JAMA for allowing the James Lind Library to link to this and other articles of historical relevance (email to Iain Chalmers from Annette Flanagin, 29 August 2014).
Diehl HS, Baker AB, Cowan DW (1938)
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