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for the further development of medical science.
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So, he proposed an alternative,
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that was embodied in his title;
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that is, experimental medicine.
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And by that, he meant laboratory medicine.
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He's one of the people who suggest a new epistemology
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for medicine, which isn't the hospital ward but the lab,
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where you could have the experimental testing
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of single variables in controlled settings.
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Here was a new source of medical knowledge.
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If that provides conceptual preconditions,
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there were also institutional ones.