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Epidemiology in general practice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

A. C. Ross
A. C. Ross
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67 Munro Road, Glasgow, G13 1SL
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Epidemiology in Country Practice by William N. Pickles, published in 1939, has been a source of continuing interest and challenge especially to general practitioners (Watson, 1982; Booth, 1987). Pickles worked for over 50 years as a general practitioner (GP) in rural Wensleydale where there were many isolated villages in which natural immunity against various infections was often lacking. And so the source of infection could usually be traced, and, with little or no immunity, spread was often rapid.

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Epidemiology & Infection , Volume 102 , Issue 2 , April 1989 , pp. 163 - 174
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989

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