François Double
Physician; member of the Académie's 1835 commission
- Dates
- No dates given in the film's sources
- Chapters
- VII. Breaking the Stone
What the film says
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Objected to counting patients at all: statistics treat a man as a fraction of the species, and such certainty belongs to astronomy.
On the timeline
- 1835: Poisson, Dulong, Larrey and Double report to the Académie des sciences on Civiale's statistics. timeline
Sources
Sources
- Poisson, Dulong, Larrey et Double, Recherches de statistique sur l'affection calculeuse, par M. le docteur Civiale. Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences 1835;1:167-177 Primary
- Tröhler 2020, J R Soc Med 113(9):360-366 Secondary