Though long known, it was not until about 1890 that it was emphasized that the disease occurs in epidemic form.
As a result of their epidemiological studies, they found that infantile paralysis continued to spread in epidemic form in the dead of winter, when these flies were very rare and torpid, or were even completely absent.
In view of the sudden prominence and the alarming spread of infantile paralysis, there have been many attempts to determine the cause, and the manner in which the disease spreads and develops in epidemic form.
Of course there is no danger under ordinary circumstances of these simple conditions being regarded as relapsing fever, but when the latter is prevalent inepidemic form it is probable that the mistake is frequently made.
A further explanation of the reason why jaundice occurs in an epidemic form, may be found in the circumstance that in all febrile states of the general system some one or other of the internal organs is liable to become congested.
It is seldom that jaundice attacks persons in an epidemic form; as it does so occasionally, however, and that too in almost all countries, it is necessary that I should say a few words on its pathology.
When we reflect on the facts here related, we {93} can have little difficulty in forming an opinion of the pathology of jaundice occurring in an epidemic form.
The Small Pox is now even not known in some parts of the world, but when once it is established, who can predict the period of its first appearance in an {62} epidemic form.
The indigenous fever of Ireland, which has several times shewn itself in an epidemic form, appears to have been as fatal, as the Plague in the South of Europe.
Such may be the case where stomatitis occurs in epidemic form--for example, among large bodies of troops.
It might be thought that when scurvy occurs in epidemic form it would be readily recognized, but experience shows that for months it may permeate the ranks of troops or the inmates of almshouses, and pass as rheumatism.
Scurvy sometimes occurs in epidemic form, especially in the army, but also, as in Russia, among the civilian population.
The social and domestic virtues received full recognition from the upholders of the monastic life, and there is no evidence that asceticism ever assumed an epidemic form.
The crusades had hardly been brought to a close before continental Europe witnessed an outbreak, in epidemic form, of a practice that had been long associated with monastic discipline.
Moreover, when once the practice of whipping became a public spectacle, and assumed an epidemic form, imitation, combined with intense religious faith, would operate very powerfully.
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