Historical Bibliography Updated: July 14, 2026

Vital accounts: Quantifying health and population in eighteenth-century England and France.

Cambridge & New York & Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Focuses several chapters on the debates over innoculation for smallpox, and statistical measurement of results, statistical studies of the effect of climate on disease, etc.

Facet Tags

Plagues & Epidemics
Natural History & Evolution

Subjects

Bioclimatology › History of Bioclimatology DEMOGRAPHY / Population: Medical Statistics › History of Demography INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Smallpox › History of Smallpox

Catalog Metadata	Reference Information
Entry Number	#8041
Permanent Link	https://beta.historyofmedicine.com/id/10217
External URL	vital-accounts-quantifying-health-and-population-in-eighteenthcentury-england-and-france

Geographic Context

Publication places: Cambridge & New York; Cambridge & New York