Evidence-based medicine says that we make decisions to help our patients

rooted in systematic experiments, randomized control trials, and various data points

that have been collected over years and years

that then later turn into guidelines. In fact, so many studies have come out that

allow us to recommend things to our patients. Now let's talk about the first ever real experiment.

Now naturally there have been a lot of experiments done in history,

but the first one that was credited as a clinical trial was for Skervy.

In fact, we knew that at the time, Skervy was a thing in fact we knew that at the time scurvy was a thing that might be related to

citrus fruit deficiency. We now know it's caused by vitamin C deficiency and

James Lind was credited as conducting the first clinical experiment.

See, a couple of doctors, there were military surgeons of the British East India Company,

which we won't go into the drama they caused, basically recommended Citrus Fruits, but then in 1747 a systematic experiment by James

Lynn became ranked as one of the first ever reported, control, and clinical experiments in the history

of medicine in which then the Navy started to adopt

and use the publication he created known as a Treatise of Scurvy in which he recommended

taking on Vitamin C through Limes. and that's why the British Navy would carry

limes with them and that's why in a non-nice way they were called limies

Now Lind was a pretty smart guy he also also realized that Tifis was not on the floors in which

sailors were bathed, given clean clothes, and basically the place was clean and sterile.

But those who were in the lower floors where hygienic measures were not in place had higher rates of actually having typhus.

Therefore, he actually recommended that all the sailors be shaved, scrubbed, and issued clean clothing and bedding regularly,

and because of this, the British seamen did not suffer

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