Matching Pairs Epidemiology: Historical FiguresOnline version Matching of historical figures by Ash Stivers 1 William Farr 2 James Lind 3 John Snow 4 John Graunt 5 Richard Doll & Austin Bradford Hill 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 Controlled clinical trials; Tuberculosis; Smoking/ Lung cancer study Experimental studies on Scurvy; eradication in British Navy Bills of Mortality; weekly count of deaths; patterns of fertility, disease and death