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van Helmont's proposal for a randomised comparison of treating fevers with or without bloodletting and purging

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Around the year 1643, Joan Baptista van Helmont, a Flemish chemist, alchemist and physician who had devised what he claimed to be a new form of medicine, proposed a 'challenge' to traditional Galenic physicians to compare treatment of fever by traditional meth... ...