Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis

Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis

Pierre-Charles-Alexandre Louis (April 14, 1787 – August 22, 1872) was a French physician, clinician and pathologist known for his studies on tuberculosis, typhoid fever, and pneumonia, but Louis's greatest contribution to medicine was the development of the "numerical method", forerunner to epidemiology and the modern clinical trial.

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