Louis, Pierre Charles Alexandre

Born: 1787 AD
Died: 1872 AD, at 85 years of age.

Nationality: Unknown
Categories: None


French physician

 

father of statistical medicine

 

used statistics to disprove efficacy of leeching

 

coined term "typhoid fever"

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