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Vinony

loimology

noun

  1. the study of, or a treatise on, the plague or pestilential diseases
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Wiktionary

noun

Etymology: From Ancient Greek λοιμός (loimós) + -ology.

  1. Synonym of epidemiology (“the study of infectious diseases”).

    “M. Vien, secretary of the college of medicine, published a very complete Loimology.”

    “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 […]”