Abstract

References
1.
Inglis
B.
Fringe Medicine . London : Faber and Faber , 1964
2.
Smout
TC
. History of the Scottish People 1560–1830 . London : Collins , 1969
3.
Fulder
S.
Handbook of Complementary Medicine . Oxford : Wiley , 1988
4.
World Health Organization. Global Strategy for Health for All by the Year 2,000 . Geneva : WHO , 1981
5.
Brewin
TB
. The cancer patient: Too many scans and X-rays . Lancet 1981 ; ii : 1098 –9
6.
Spiro
HM
. Doctors, Patients and Placebos . New Haven and London : Yale University Press , 1986
7.
Cochrane
AL
. Effectiveness and Efficiency . London : Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust , 1972
8.
Schwartz
D
Lellouch
J.
Explanatory and Pragmatic Attitudes in Therapeutic Trials . J Chron Dis 1967 ; 20 : 637 –48
9.
Hill
A. Bradford
The clinical trial . Practitioner 1963 ; 190 : 85 –90
10.
Chalmers
TC
. Randomisation of the first patient . Med Clin N Am 1975 ; 59 : 1035 –8
11.
Spodick
DH
. Randomize the first patient: Scientific, ethical and behavioral bases . Am J Cardiol 1983 ; 51 : 916 –17
