"Speaking of which, what did you just say Mr. Meme, Master Barca"
"What were you saying? I wonder what it is."
"You and I were talking about whether you were going to experiment to see how effective the treatment was. Maybe you're thinking about using even living humans as experimental material."
"That's not going to be a story if we're going to have to do it to the actual sick to see how effective the treatments are in real life right now. What the hell are you talking about?"
"Wow. Are you going to do that, you two? Exactly. I can't help it either. Human experiments are horrible."
"You don't say it in a bad way. It's a clinical trial. It only reduces the burden of treatment costs instead of taking data on treatment for the actual sick. I think it's about win-win because you can get treatment for it at a cheap price."
"... is that true? I guess I don't force people who don't like it to take it by formulating monstrous drugs at night, Master Barca."
"I won't do that, painter. Whatever the meme is, I'm a decent person."
"... well, let's just say that. So you're actually treating a patient with a disease to find out if it's cured or not and data it. Then you don't have to paint, so it doesn't matter to you."
"No, you're right. Shall I ask the painter to take part in the study? I think some illnesses show distinctive physical changes, so I'll have them portrayed."
"... Oh, shit. It was a snake. Dear Barca, I want to paint."
"Don't worry. I'll let you draw more than that."
"Ugh, really, why did this happen? I can't believe this is happening to my dream painter life..."
"I'm glad you're so happy to cry. Yeah, and I'm talking about the clinical trial earlier, because I'm not just going to see if it's healed or not. Remember, I'm going to ask you to retrieve the data."
"Oh, isn't it? What are you gonna do?
"I've already explained it to Meme, but I think I'll do a comparative exam. Because you should know better about the therapeutic effects."
Human anatomy is not yet complete.
But the painter seems to have taken an interest in the study after the autopsy.
We can't just leave it to Meme anyway, so let's get the painter involved from now on.
That's what I decided to talk to you about now.
Regarding the determination of therapeutic effect.
I don't know much about how to do this, but a lot of medical information was handled on television and so on in my previous life.
I remember what I heard in it and explained it to Meme as well.
That meant that it was inaccurate to simply argue that a patient with a disease was treated and cured or not cured as a way to ascertain the effect of the treatment.
If it is actually treated and cured, isn't that an effective cure?
That's what I've felt when I saw it on TV.
In fact, there are cases where the symptoms heal even if they are completely ineffective.
If you see a great teacher, such as a professor at some medical university, for example, and treat him, many people usually think without grounds that "this will get better".
Or if you take a pill that has a story about it working well for your disease.
Even if it wasn't actually effective, people can heal from assumptions alone.
It's a phenomenon called the placebo effect.
Perhaps even in this world, doctors who are not sure are treating themselves, but many are cured by this placebo effect.
The body healed after treatment, and I don't know if it actually worked or if the placebo effect worked.
Therefore, it seems necessary to compare and verify the effects.
If you want to find out how the medicine works, you need to find out if you took the medicine you want to find out how it works and if you didn't.
If you want more decent data, they say you may also be fed fake drugs that are neither poisonous nor medicinal.
Divide patients with the same disease into two groups to verify to what extent the probability of cure is different or the same if they take medication and if they take counterfeit medication.
In this way, I will use a method called comparative testing to compare the results of the two groups to see how effective this world treatment method is.
Well, I guess we actually need a more detailed procedure, but I don't know that much about it, so let's cut it off that even this much would be enough.
"Uh, so you're finally comparing the group you actually treat to the group you don't. Isn't that annoying?"
"I'm going to do a clinical trial anyway, and let's do this. I don't like talking about weapon ointment."
"Weapon ointment? What is it, that?
"The wrong experimental method proves the effect of the wrong treatment method, and it spreads."
Weapon ointment was a story from the Middle Ages.
In order to cure a patient injured by a weapon on the battlefield, he applied ointment to the weapon, not the patient's body.
This seems to have been recognized at the time by experiments as a state-of-the-art treatment method with confirmed therapeutic efficacy.
If you think about it normally, you can't put ointment on your weapon and people's bodies will heal.
But why did that happen at the time?
There was a reason for that.
This story can be attributed to the fact that the experiment was carried out in the wrong way at the time.
At that time, there was a higher rate of healing when ointment was applied to the weapon than when ointment was applied to the patient's body.
Why, I don't know how that happened.
That was because at the time ointments, or drugs, were refined with animal manure, mud and other things that adversely affected the human body.
In other words, understanding this story correctly meant that it would be quicker to apply ointment to a weapon and leave a person's body to their natural healing powers than to receive a medieval general treatment.
"Ma, if that's why I want to take the data, I want to do it in an unmistakable way. You'll cooperate, painter."
"Well, from what I hear, it doesn't seem like we're going to do human experiments with half the fun. I get it. Let me help you, Master Barca."
Apparently, the painter was convinced that he was willing to cooperate.
But to what extent does this clinical trial actually have an impact?
At a time when restorative magic or something exists, it's far from common sense I know.
There is also the possibility that there is a cure magic even if ointment is applied to the weapon.
It's not a meme, but I was a little excited before I started to see what results I could get from the study.