Matching Pairs Epidemiology: Historical FiguresOnline version Matching of historical figures by Ash Stivers 1 John Snow 2 Richard Doll & Austin Bradford Hill 3 James Lind 4 William Farr 5 John Graunt Statistical abstracts for General Registry Great Britain; inferences about population through vital statistics; standardized mortality rate "perfect model" of epidemiological research; Cholera outbreak solved through observations, a natural experiment, and quantitative analysis Bills of Mortality; weekly count of deaths; patterns of fertility, disease and death Controlled clinical trials; Tuberculosis; Smoking/ Lung cancer study Experimental studies on Scurvy; eradication in British Navy