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An epistle to Dr. Richard Mead, concerning the epidemical diseases of Virginia, particularly, a pleurisy and peripneumony: wherein is shewn the surprising efficacy of the seneca rattle-snake root, in Diseases owing to a Viscidity and Coagulation of the Blood; such as Pleurisies and Peripneumonies, these being epidemick, and very mortal in Virginia, and other Colonies on the Continent of America, and also the Lee-Ward Islands. To which is prefixt, A Cut of that most valuable Plant: And an Appendix annexed, Demonstrating the highest Probability, that this Root will be of more extensive Use than any Medicine in the whole Materia Medica, and of curing the Gout, Rheumatism, Dropsy, and many nervous Diseases. By John Tennent.
Tennent, John, 1710-1748.Date: M.DCC.XLII. [1742]- Books
Statistical and logical theories of probability pertinent to grids / P. Slater.
Slater, P.Date: 1979- Books
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Angola. An Indian history. A work destitute of all probability. The First Part.
La Morlière, Jacques Rochette de, 1719-1785.Date: MDCCL. [1750]- Books
Studies in the history of statistics and probability : a series of papers / selected and edited by E.S. Pearson, M.G. Kendall.
Pearson, E. S. (Egon Sharpe), 1895-1980.Date: 1970- Books
The history of therapeutic evaluation : between dogmatic certainty and empiric probability / Ulrich Tröhler.
Tröhler, Ulrich, 1943-Date: 1988- Books
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An enquiry into the probability and rationality of Mr. Hunter's theory of life / [John Abernethy].
Abernethy, John, 1764-1831.Date: 1814- Books
Genetics and probability in animal breeding experiments : a primer and reference book on probability, segregation, assortment, linkage and mating systems for biomedical scientists who breed and use genetically defined laboratory animals for research / Earl L. Green.
Green, Earl L. (Earl Leroy)Date: [1981], ©1981- Books
The probability of the impossible : scientific discoveries and explorations in the psychic world / by Thelma Moss.
Moss, Thelma.Date: 1976, ©1974- Books
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An Address to the Right Hon, William Pitt, on the probability of a revolution in this country.
Date: 1792- Books
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A treatise on dissolvents of the stone; And on Curing the stone and gout by aliment. Shewing, By Reason supported with Experiments, and Cases, the Probability of dissolving the Stone either in the Kidneys, or Bladder; and of preventing the Returns of the Gout by suitable Aliment, with proper Rules of Diet. Intermixed with Observations, which shew how Persons of different Constitutions, and also of different Habits of Body, whether too lean, or too fat, should regulate themselves, and their Diet for the Preservation of their Health. To which are added, Directions of Diet proper for Persons afflicted with Colds, Fevers, Quinseys, Coughs, Asthma's, Cholicks and Pains of the Stomach, Costiveness, Nervous Diseases, Cachexies, Dropsies, Tumours, or Scurvey. The Whole form'd for Usefulness in Families. By Theophilus Lobb, M.D. and Fellow of the Royal Society of London.
Lobb, Theophilus, 1678-1763.Date: MDCCXXXIX. [1739]- Books
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The doctrine of chances: or, a method of calculating the probability of events in play. By A. de Moivre. F.R.S.
Moivre, Abraham de, 1667-1754.Date: MDCCXVIII. [1718]- Books
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The nature and laws of chance. Containing, among other particulars, the solutions of several abstruse and important problems. The doctrine of combinations and permutations clearly deduced. A new and comprehensive Problem of great Use in discovering the Advantage or Loss in Lotteries, Raffles, &c. A curious and extensive Problem on the Duration of Play. Problems for determining the Probability of winning at Bowls, Quoits, Cards, &c. A Problem for finding the Trials wherein it may be undertaken that a proposed Event shall happen or fail a given Number of Times. A Problem to find the Chance for a given Number of Points on a given Number of Dice. Full and clear Investigations of two Problems of Mr. De Moivrt's; one of them allowed by that Author to be the most useful on the Subject, but their Demonstrations omitted by him. Two new Methods for summing of Series. The Whole After a new, general, and conspicuous Manner, and Illustrated with a Great Variety of Examples. By Thomas Simpson, F.R.S.
Simpson, Thomas, 1710-1761.Date: MDCCXCII. [1792]- Books
The doctrine of chances without change : determinism, mathematical probability, and quantification in the seventeenth century / Lorraine J. Daston.
Daston, Lorraine J.Date: 1992- Books
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The controverted hard case: or Mary Squires's Magazine of facts re-examin'd. Setting forth, the reasons which induced the Attorney and Sollicitor-General to make their report to His Majesty in favour of this poor, unhappy old woman. Remarks on Dr. Dodd's Physical Case of Canning; also on Dr. Cox's Appeal to the Publick; and his great Judgment in discerning the Signals of Virginity; shewing the Weakness and Insufficiency of their Arguments to support her Cause. New Discoveries and Facts never before made publick, tending to confirm the Opinion of the Gipsey's Innocence, and the Probability that the Whole is a concerted Scheme, and a most villainous Imposture. Likewise, the dispute between Mr. Myles and Mr. Ford, argued, Pro and Con. To which is prefixed, A curious print, representing the Lord Mayor, and the great astonishment of the learned in court: after the manner of Hogarth.
Date: MDCCLIII. [1753]- Books
Dangerousness : probability and prediction, psychiatry and public policy / edited by Christopher D. Webster, Mark H. Ben-Aron, Stephen J. Hucker.
Date: 1985- Books
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An essay on the probability of sensation in vegetables; with additional observations on instinct, sensation, irritability, etc / By James Perchard Tupper.
Tupper, James Perchard.Date: 1811- Books
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A historical account of bills of mortality, and the probability of human life, in Glasgow and other large towns / by James Cleland.
Cleland, James, 1770-1840.Date: 1836- Books
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An essay on the probability of sensation in vegetables : with additional observations on instinct, sensation, irritability, &c / By James Perchard Tupper.
Tupper, James Perchard, active 1811.Date: M. DCCC. XI. [1811]- Books
Life's rich pattern : the role of statistics and probability in nineteenth century argumentation for theories of evolution, variation, and heredity / by James Wynn.
Wynn, James I., 1972-Date: 2006- Books
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An essay on the nature and causes of the gout. With a few conjectures on the probability of its cure / By Marmaduke Berdoe, M.D.
Berdoe, Marmaduke, 1743?-Date: 1772- Books
On the probability that the infection of diphtheria is sometimes transported by the wind / by Hubert Airy ... Medical Inspector to the Local Government Board.
Airy, Hubert, 1838-1903.Date: 1883- Books
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An essay on the nature and causes of the gout, with a few conjectures on the probability of its cure. By Marmaduke Berdoe, M.D.
Berdoe, Marmaduke, 1743?-Date: M.DCC.LXXII. [1772]- Books
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An essay on the nature and causes of the gout, with a few conjectures on the probability of its cure. By Marmaduke Berdoe, M.D.
Berdoe, Marmaduke, 1743?-Date: M.DCC.LXXI. [1771]- Books
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A common law treatise of usury, and usurious contracts: are said Usurious in our Law. What Contracts are Usurious or not, in respect of Contingency, or Probability, or in respect of the Times of Payment; Or in respect of Subsequent Agreements, or Receipts after the first Contract made. In what Cases the Contract shall be taken as a Penalty, or in Nature of a Nomine Poenae, and not as Usurious. Of Goods, Chattels, &c. and not barely Loan of Money. Wherein is also added. Explication of the several Statutes against Usury, with many Cases of Brokers. Informations on the Statutes, either upon Loanes or Receipts, as the Case is, with safe Directions to draw them; In what Court, and within what Time to be brought. And Presidents of Forfeitures and Penalties. Of Pleading the Statute of Usury, to avoid Bonds, &c. Pleadings as to Loan or Receipts, What Averment may be made to draw the Contract out of the Statute of Usury. Evidence, Tryal, Verdict in Informations, &c.
Date: [1710?]- Books
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An answer to the pretended remarks on Mr. Webber's scheme, and the Draper's Pamphlet; shewing, That the Remarker hath not made the least Objection to the Scheme, which the Draper recommended, nor disprov'd the least Fact which he advanc'd: As also, that all that hath been alledged by the Gentleman's Magazine against it is groundless, and that the Truth of the Calculation is undoubted. To which is added, A Copy of the Letter which Mr. Webber received, concerning its being stipulated that France should have our Wool; which Letter also contains a short, but pathetick Address, to the Electors of Great-Britain. Written at the Time of the last Election, and altogether as necessary at this Time, with some other Reasons; setting forth the Probability of such a Stipulation also, A Petition, intended to have been presented to Parliament, praying, an Act to confirm the Charter which His Majesty granted Mr. Webber: Which Petition was not refused, on account of such a Charter not having been granted, but as a Private Bill that came too late. By John London.
London, John, merchant.Date: 1741