loimology

English

Alternative forms

• lemology

Etymology

Ancient Greek λοιμός (loimós) +‎ -ology

Noun

loimology (uncountable)

1. (obsolete, rare, medicine) Synonym of epidemiology (“the study of infectious diseases”)
   • 1802, W. Tooke, The Life of Catharine II, Empress of All the Russias‎^[1], volume 2:

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

   • 1914, The Year Book of Drug Therapy‎^[2], 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^[3]:

     Zeiss also elaborated on the connections between the collection of live cultures and his own epidemiological theories, especially his notions of geomedicine and loimology.