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Vital Accounts: Quantifying Health and Population in Eighteenth-Century England and France

Vital Accounts: Quantifying Health and Population in Eighteenth-Century England and France

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Series: Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine

Medical ReferenceGeneral European History

ISBN10: 0521101239
ISBN13: 9780521101233
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Feb 12 2009
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This study examines the pre-history of statistics in eighteenth-century England and France, before state governments and other institutions began to collect statistical data on a regular basis. Eighteenth-century political and medical arithmeticians developed a variety of useful techniques to measure health and population. This book highlights the history of numerical tables, as new scientific instruments, and explains how they were used to evaluate smallpox inoculations, and the health and size of populations.

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