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postponing death. We then explain the rise of effective medicine by a learn-
ing process function of expenditures in health. The … health expenditures even
when medicine was not effective in postponing death. Then we combine this result
with a simple … developed by the seventeenth
century in London. Weekly bills of mortality, containing the cause of death, were
published: when …