Excerpt from Handbook of Geographical and Historical Pathology, Vol. 2: Chronic Infective, Toxic, Parasitic, Septic and Constitutional Diseases Among the chroniclers both of the earlier and the later times of the Empire, there is complete agreement that the endemic leprosy of Egypt was not known to the older Greek physicians (ale. To physicians practising in Greece), that the disease did not show itself in the Roman Empire until the last century b.c., 5nd that it was a still longer time before it attained a general diffusion therein or among the neigh houring nationalities. 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.