Historical Bibliography Updated: June 17, 2026

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

Publication Details

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

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.

Browse Tags

Plagues & Epidemics
Natural History & Evolution

Thematic Classifications

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

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Entry Number	#8041
Permanent Link	https://hom-sveltekit.fly.dev/entry/10217
External URL	vital-accounts-quantifying-health-and-population-in-eighteenthcentury-england-and-france

Geographic Context

Publication place: Cambridge & New York