Of the Epidemics - and Historic Epidemics

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..."