 | Massachusetts - 1867 - 1152 strani
...assertatione. " The advantages of this change are evident. The prevalence of a disease, for instance, is expressed by the deaths in a given time out of...thermometer ; so that when the mean population of the district PART I.] SECRETARY'S BEPOBT. [CHAP. in. is known, the rise and decline of epidemics may... | |
 | 1869 - 582 strani
...that the prevalence of disease is expressed by the deaths in a given time, out of a given number of living, with as much accuracy as the temperature is indicated by a thermometer ? Experience and almost universal testimony answer, that it is not, — that any conclusions based... | |
 | Cornelius Walford - 1873 - 694 strani
...uncertain assertions. The advantages of this change are evident. The prevalence of a disease, for instance, is expressed by the deaths in a given time out of...indicated by a thermometer ; so that when the mean pop. of a district is known, the rise and decline of epidemics may be traced exactly ; and it will... | |
 | William Farr - 1885 - 606 strani
...f assertions. The advantages of this change are evident. The prevalence of a disease, for instance, is expressed by the deaths in a given time out of...thermometer ; so that when the mean population of the district is known, the rise and decline of epidemics may bo traced exactly, aud it will then be... | |
 | William Farr - 1885 - 612 strani
...deaths in a given time out of a given number living with as much accuracy as the temperature [PART iv. is indicated by a thermometer ; so that when the mean population of the district is known, the rise and decline of epidemics may he traced exactly, and it will then bo... | |
 | Royal Statistical Society (Great Britain) - 1854 - 418 strani
...uncertain assertions. The advantages of this change are evident. The prevalence of a disease, for instance, is expressed by the deaths in a given time out of...a thermometer; so that when the mean population of the district is known, the rise and decline of epidemics may be traced exactly, and it will then be... | |
 | 1844 - 458 strani
...uncertain assertions. The advantages of this change are evident. The prevalence of a disease, for instance, is expressed by the deaths in a given time out of...thermometer ; so that when the mean population of the district is known, the rise and decline of epidemics may be traced exactly, and it will then be... | |
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Medicine, like the other natural sciences, is beginning to abandon vague conjecture where facts can be accurately determined by observation ; and to substitute numerical expressions for uncertain assertions. The advantages of this change are evident.... 