John Haygarth, line engraving by W. Cooke, 1801
period print · 1801
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Line engraving portrait of John Haygarth by engraver W. Cooke, 1801, after an original by J. H. Bell. Haygarth was the physician who designed the fictitious-tractor experiment at Bath General Hospital in January 1799, which is the founding placebo-controlled clinical trial in the modern Anglophone medical literature. Held at Wellcome Collection, London (reference M0001844); licensed CC BY 4.0.
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