Comments regarding "On prognosis" by William Farr (1838), with reconstruction of his longitudinal analysis of smallpox recovery and death rates.
Gerstman
B Burt
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Dep. of Health Science, San Jose State University, San Jose, California, USA. gerstman@email.sjsu.edu
D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D011379:Prognosis; D012899:Smallpox / Q000266:history* / Q000401:mortality; D016019:Survival Analysis; D006113:United Kingdom