There's an interesting history of it in a book called Who Goes First?
https://www.amazon.com/Who-Goes-First-Lawrence-Altman/dp/052...
The history of such self-experimentation is chronicled in a book called "Who Goes First?":
https://www.amazon.com/Who-Goes-First-Lawrence-Altman/dp/052...
[1] - https://www.amazon.com/Who-Goes-First-Lawrence-Altman/dp/052...
Who Goes First?: The Story of Self-Experimentation in Medicine
https://www.amazon.com/Who-Goes-First-Self-Experimentation-M...
https://www.amazon.com/Who-Goes-First-Self-Experimentation-M...
These days if a researcher dared confess that he tried some research compound on himself he'd be charged with loss of objectivity, or be considered crazy or just plain weird. But not too long ago self-experimentation by researchers was quite a common and accepted practice. It could even be considered the ethical thing to do: before letting the compound be tried by others you should of course try it yourself.
There's a book on the history of self-experimentation in medicine, called "Who Goes First?"[2]
[1] - "he" being Justinus Kerner, "the first scientist to publish an accurate and comprehensive description of the disease"
[2] - https://www.amazon.com/Who-Goes-First-Self-Experimentation-M...
This reminds me of an interesting book on the history of self-experimentation in medicine called "Who Goes First":
https://www.amazon.com/Who-Goes-First-Lawrence-Altman/dp/052...