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IT would be impossible to say that any disease has completely died out, and it would be an unwarrantable assumption to say that any disease is a new disease. All the same, it is certain that a number of diseases, which were formerly rife, not to say decimating in their effects in the past, have become obsolete, and it is almost, though not quite, as certain that other diseases have increased considerably during recent times. It is in the sense of the general nature of the problem which diseases present to-day as contrasted with years ago, that I use the words “new” and “old”.
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Horder, L. Old Diseases and New. Nature 139, 571–574 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139571a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/139571a0