The weight of evidence and the burden of authority : case histories, medical statistics and smallpox inoculation / Andrea A. Rusnock.
- Rusnock, Andrea Alice.
- Date:
- 1995
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1995
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pages 289-315 : facsimiles
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Re the introduction of statistics into medicine, illustrated by the numerical approach to evaluating the practice of inoculation in 18th century Britain. One of the chief architects of this approach was James Jurin (1684-1750)
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Bibliographic references: p. 309-315
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