Thomas Short (physician, died 1772)

Not to be confused with Thomas Short (physician, died 1685).
Trinity College in Oxford, where Thomas Short was educated, in 1782.

Thomas Short (1690–1772)[1] was an English physician, epidemiologist, and medical historian.[2] He is known for writing extensively on population theory and the history of disease outbreaks affecting England.[1]

  1. ^ a b Jones, G. P. (1956). "Dr. Thomas Short, an Eighteenth-Century Writer on Population". Bulletin of Economic Research. 8 (2): 149–158. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8586.1956.tb00467.x. ISSN 1467-8586.
  2. ^ Short, Thomas (1749). A General Chronological History of the Air, Weather, Seasons, Meteors, &c. in Sundry Places and Different Times: More Particularly for the Space of 250 Years : Together with Some of Their Most Remarkable Effects on Animal (especially Human) Bodies and Vegetables. London: T. Longman ... and A. Millar.