Of the Epidemics - Paperback

by Hippocrates of Kos (Author), Francis Adams (Author)

This book presents the Hippocrates treatise of the epidemics, followed by an essay on historic epidemics. "Epidemic denotes a spreading disease which attacks great numbers of people at certain seasons. The term Epidemic derived from two Greek words, which signify "upon the people - prevalent among the people" - diseases which, at one and the same time, prevail extensively among large masses of the people..."