Editorial: Inadvertent Misrepresentation of Research Data

Abstract

On 15th May 1889, Charles Edourd.Brown Sequard, the highly respected 72 year old Professor of Medicine at the College de France, injected himself with an aqueous extract of guinea pig testicles. A month later, during a scientific meeting, he created a sensation by telling Societe de Biologie that animal testes contained an invigorating principle capable of rejuvenating elderly men (W. Sneader "Drug Discovery: The Evolution of Modern Medicines", John Wiley Sons, New York, 1989 p. 192). He was a living testimony to this new finding.