Excerpt from Handbook of Geographical and Historical Pathology, Vol. 1: Acute Infective Diseases Thus it is that Medical Geography and the History of Diseases bears to-day a character quite different from that of the science twenty or thirty years ago. It has filled out in proportions, and acquired finish to an extraordinary degree; and it seemed to me that some attempt to treat of Geographical and Historical Pathology anew was not merely justified, but even called for. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.