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