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Excerpt from The Value and the Fallacy of Statistics in the Observations of Disease
An adequate cause, one reasonable of itself, must correct the coincidences of simple experience; and the mere numeration of any series of events cannot establish any general principles without analysis, classification, comparison, and induction.
The term statistics is nearly equivalent to political, or social science and we prefer the use of the expression, the numerical method, in medical parlance. This method has both a value and a fallacy: And our subject has been well stated in this respect, and wisely restricted to the observation, or natural history of disease. For it so happens that this is not only one of the most important branches of medical science, but one of the most dith cult to define and accurately determine.
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