title: [The evaluation of medical treatments in the course of ages: from antiquity to the first randomized controlled trial].
abstract: This paper describes the chief landmarks in the slow development of therapeutic research from antiquity to the first randomized controlled trial.
authors.affiliation: Hôpital Erasme.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kinnaert
mesh_terms: D004358:Drug Therapy / Q000266:history; D049668:History, 15th Century; D049669:History, 16th Century; D049670:History, 17th Century; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049690:History, Ancient; D049691:History, Medieval; D006801:Humans; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic / Q000266:history*