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IN this little book are reproduced the twentieth series of the Hertei lectures, delivered in 1931 by Prof. Major Greenwood. The first lecture is historic al, the second describes a biological experimental study of epidemics, and the third considers the subject of immunity. The biostatistical method of investigating disease in experimental communities leads the author to some interesting conclusions relating to the influence of the introduction of non-immune members into a herd; and although it does not yet contribute any suggestion to the problem of controlling epidemics, its more ex tended application may indicate the means by which real progress can be made.
Epidemiology, Historical and Experimental: the Herter Lectures for 1931.
Major
Greenwood
By. Pp. x + 80. (Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1932.) 9s. net.
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Epidemiology, Historical and Experimental: the Herter Lectures for 1931 . Nature 133, 480 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133480d0
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