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A Comparative View of the Mortality of the Human Species, at All Ages

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Holistic Healing

A Comparative View of the Mortality of the Human Species, at All Ages

William Black

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Who dies, and at what age? William Black tried to answer with numbers, tracing mortality across every stage of life from infancy to old age, planet and atmosphere included. An early exercise in the arithmetic of death, it stands among the first attempts to reason about health through statistics. A founding curiosity for anyone drawn to the history of epidemiology.

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162 chapters

  1. 1COMPARATIVE VIEW OF THE MORTALITY OF THE HUMAN SPECIES, c. c.
  2. 2DEDICATION.
  3. 3CONTENTS.
  4. 4INTRODUCTION.
  5. 5The station and rank of our planet amongst the celestial orbs
  6. 6The Solar System
  7. 7The earth’s figure, magnitude, motion
  8. 8Of the moon
  9. 9The investing elements of the earth
  10. 10Atmosphere and winds, c.
  11. 11Rain, snow, c.
  12. 12Electrical emanation
  13. 13The earth’s division into land and water, and into continents
  14. 14The situation of the human species upon the earth
  15. 15The number of the human species
  16. 16The multiplication of the human species
  17. 17The distinction of the human species into classes
  18. 18Mankind diversified by civilization

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