Janet lane claypon biography of rory

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          Sexual selection theory has proven to be fundamental to our understanding of the male-female (sperm-egg) interactions that characterise fertilisation.

        1. Born Barbara Fallis Strong in Denver, Colorado, and later moved to London, England, with her family during childhood.
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        3. A report on the treatment of cancer of the uterus at the Samaritan Free Hospital / by Janet E. Lane-Claypon and W. McK. H. McCullagh.
        4. Pages in category "20th-century English medical doctors".

          5. Janet Lane-Claypon (1877-1967)

          Another female British pioneer in epidemiology, who has been largely overlooked despite her seminal contribution, is the inventor of the modern case-control study. Lane-Claypon, like Nightingale, was a public-health leader who became an innovator in epidemiology in pursuit of her public-health objectives.

          In 1912, she published the results of a study that examined breast feeding versus bottle feeding in relation to weight gain during infancy and secondarily compared the effect of boiled versus raw cow's milk among the bottle-fed infants.

          This study has been described as the first retrospective cohort study,16 although one could argue that the earlier studies of Snow on cholera or of Semmelweiss on puerperal fever were retrospective cohort studies. Regardless of priority, Lane-Claypon's work was ahead of its time, not only for the basic study design but also for

          her attention to both systematic and random error.

          She excluded sick infants to prevent co