Comparative View of the Mortality of the Human Species
Black M. D., William Black (1749-1829) was an Irish-born physician who studied medicine at Leyden, taking his degree as MD there in 1772. He received the license of the College of Physicians in 1787 and afterwards practised in London, residing in Piccadilly. Whilst he did not attain any remarkable eminence in his profession, he was the author of several books illustrating the application of the statistical method to medicine and was one of the first writers to sho...