Abstract
THE prevalence of many infective diseases in epidemic form—by which is meant a sharp increase in incidence over a short period of time—is a problem the solution of which has exercised many minds since the times of the medical philosophers of ancient Greece. Many of the hypotheses formerly advanced have been found to be inconsistent with increasing medical knowledge, and there is no unanimity of opinion among epidemiologists concerning those that have survived. Only a careful collection and unbiased analysis of all the factors and data, together with the vision to interpret them, is likely to unravel the tangled skein.
The Genesis of Epidemics and the Natural History of Disease: an Introduction to the Science of Epidemiology based upon the Study of Epidemics of Malaria, Influenza, and Plague.
By Lieut.-Col. Clifford Allchin Gill. Pp. xxvi + 550. (London: Baillière, Tindall and Cox, 1928.) 21s. net.
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H., R. The Genesis of Epidemics and the Natural History of Disease: an Introduction to the Science of Epidemiology based upon the Study of Epidemics of Malaria, Influenza, and Plague . Nature 124, 221–222 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124221a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/124221a0
