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Quotation from An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine by Claude Bernard
“The principle of medical and surgical morality, therefore, consists in never performing on man an experiment which might be harmful to him to any extent, even though the result might be highly advantageous to science, i.e., to the health of others.”
An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine, Part Two, Chapter II, trans. Henry Copley Greene (1927)
Bernard's rule for experiment on human patients, set within his discussion of vivisection.
Citation: "The principle of medical and surgical morality, therefore, consists in never performing on man an experiment which might be harmful to him to any extent, even though the result might be highly advantageous to science, i.e., to the health of others." — Claude Bernard, An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine, Part Two, Chapter II, trans. Henry Copley Greene (1927). (id bernard-introduction-to-experimental-medicine-q5)
Portrait: Claude Bernard 5, Unknown, Public domain.
