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d. 1872 France

Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis (14 April 1787 – 22 August 1872) was a French physician known for inventing the "numerical method", a precursor to modern clinical trials, and for his work on infectious diseases and bloodletting.

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Without the aid of statistics nothing like real medicine is possible.

All [knowledge] comes from experience, it is true, but experience is nothing if it does not form collections of similar facts. Now, to make collections is to count.

Letter to Jean Cruveilhier (1837)

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