> “For pleurisy give fat liver pie.”

He neglected to add in his notebook "results positive for a sample size equal to one"

>  “For pleurisy, give fat liver pie ; good for house carpenters – bad for locksmiths.”

He neglected to add "sample size of two, one lived, one died - inconclusive results."

This is a simple failure of common sense, even for the pre-scientific times, as the ENTIRE IDEA OF KEEPING A NOTEBOOK would be to prompt the comparison of the two outcomes, which would have revealed the truth of the matter.

So, this doctor, like most beekeepers clearly did NOT keep a notebook, and this sort of failure to keep notes makes one a "Second-Year Beekeeper for 52 Consecutive Years".

I am still a pad and pencil boy, I can't even trust pens in the cold and damp. I destroyed multiple Palm Pilots AND Apple Newtons in the beeyard back when they were considered cool, so I use pocket notebooks in the apiary.
These are nice:
https://decomposition.com/product/pocket-4x6-decomposition-book-honeycomb-lined-pages/

and I photograph the pages, which Google is kind enough to scan, OCR, and save for me at no charge.

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