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