Author : Epidemiological Society Of London
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-13
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0483029203
Transactions of the Epidemiological Society of London, Vol. 1 by Epidemiological Society Of London Pdf
Excerpt from Transactions of the Epidemiological Society of London, Vol. 1: Session 1881-82 The first idea that must occur to anyone who hears me is the place which, among all such subjects, we Shall gratefully assign to mathematical science. If in physiology and therapeutics, we have recourse to this science for the com position Oi our facts, for a knowledge of the general from the particular, for the, apprehension of degrees of certainty under conditions that are inconstant and not wholly known; the indebtedness of epidemiology to mathematics begins at an earlier and ends at a later period of its course. So identified is the one with the other science, that there has occasionally been a confusion in the popular mind between the two things, and the study of epidemics has been regarded as essentially an affair of statistics: while, on the other hand, it has sometimes happened that laborious and promising work in the field of epidemiology has been without result, owing to want of apprehension of some circumstance that is plain enough when it is once pointed out by the mathematician. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.