CLIFTON, Francis ( – 1836)
– 1836
2 entries in the GMN corpus.
1731 CE
#9461
Tabular observations recommended as the plainest and surest way of practising and improving physick. In a letter to a friend.
Clifton argued that physicians should base their judgments about the effects of treatments on a sufficient number of their own observations, or trusted observations by other physicians, rather than on the correlation …
1732 CE
#9460
The state of physick, ancient and modern, briefly considered: with a plan for the improvement of it.
Instead of assessing the efficacy of therapies by their correlation with theories, Clifton argued that physicians should base their judgments about the effects of treatments on a sufficient number of their own observa…