title: Alexander Lesassier Hamilton's 1816 report of a controlled trial of bloodletting.
authors.affiliation: Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, EH2 1JQ, UK i.milne@rcpe.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Iain
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Milne
authors.affiliation: Summertown Pavilion, Oxford, OX2 7LG, UK.
authors.forename: Iain
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Chalmers
mesh_terms: D001815:Bloodletting / Q000266:history*; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic / Q000266:history*; D013502:General Surgery / Q000266:history*; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006772:Hospitals, Military / Q000266:history; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008887:Military Medicine / Q000266:history*; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians' / Q000266:history; D006113:United Kingdom; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000266:history* / Q000628:therapy