• Swiss medical weekly · Mar 1996

    Historical Article

    [The Janus face of medicine].

    • U Boschung.
    • Medizinhistorisches Institut der Universität Bern.
    • Swiss Med Wkly. 1996 Mar 30;126(13):507-11.

    AbstractSince antiquity medicine has repeatedly been accused of being noxious (or ineffective). Physicians have always admitted that their art-because of its efficacy-could be dangerous. Lack of success or unwanted effects stimulate research in quest of a better definition of efficacy and to improve safety. In practice, however, it is necessary to act here and now, by the available means, hopefully in line with Hippocrates' precaution, .

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