loimology
English
Etymology
Ancient Greek λοιμός (loimós) + -ology
Noun
loimology (uncountable)
- (obsolete, rare, medicine) Synonym of epidemiology (the study of infectious diseases)
- 1802, W. Tooke, The Life of Catharine II, Empress of All the Russias, volume 2:
- M. Vien, secretary of the college of medicine, published a very complete Loimology.
- 1914, The Year Book of Drug Therapy, volume 8:
- The loimology of the future had for its object to discover what places and what times were favorable to each epidemic disease and what unfavorable, either continuously or for a time […]
- 2006, Susan Gross Solomon, Doing Medicine Together: Germany and Russia Between the Wars:
- Zeiss also elaborated on the connections between the collection of live cultures and his own epidemiological theories, especially his notions of geomedicine and loimology.
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