Bibliographic record
Abstract
Multiple Sclerosis: The History of a DiseaseT Jock Murray 580pp Price $29.95 ISBN 1-888799-80-3 (p/b) New York: Demos Medical Publishing 'It would be nice if a physician from London, one of these days, were to gallop up hotspur, tether his horse to the gatepost and dash in waving a reprieve-the discovery of a cure!' Wilhelm Nero Pilate Barbellion, the pen name of Bruce Frederick Cummings, described his life with a chronic neurological illness in his Journal of a Disappointed Man.He died age 30 years, in 1919.Early features were recurrent numbness and weakness in the limbs, vertigo, depression, decreased sight in one eye, facial numbness and weakness in the right arm.Medications included arsenic and strychnine and homeopathic remedies.Sir Henry Head, the neurologist, asked suspiciously if he had ever been with women, and then ordered two months' complete rest in the country.He 'chased me around his consulting room with a drumstick tapping my tendons and cunningly working my reflexes'.The diagnosis was concealed from Cummings, who sought a military service examination to force a disqualification diagnosis of disseminated sclerosis.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.016 | 0.005 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".