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International Journal of Epidemiology 2001;30:1249-1250
© International Epidemiological Association 2001

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Commentary: The Paris Academy of Science report on Jean Civiale's statistical research and the 19th century background to evidence-based medicine

J Rosser Matthews

National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892–2092, USA.

In 1835, the Paris Academy of Science commissioned a report on the statistical research that had been conducted by the surgeon and urologist Jean Civiale (1792–1867). By collecting statistical data on a wide scale throughout Europe, Civiale argued that a new bloodless procedure for removing bladder stones, a lithotripsy, was superior to the more widely-used technique of surgically cutting to remove the stones known as a lithotomy.1 Although the specific therapeutic and surgical interventions that motivated the commission's report may no longer be directly relevant . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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