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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO SCIENCE SERIES

Editorial Committee

ELIAKIM HASTINGS MOORE,

Chairman

JOHN MERLE COULTER PRESTON KYES

UNIVERSITY THE SCIENCE

SERIES,

OF CHICAGO established

Trustees of the University, owes a

its

by

the

origin to

behef that there should be a medium of publica-

tion occupying a position

between the technical

journals with their short articles and the elaborate treatises

which attempt to cover several or all The volumes of the series wide field.

aspects of a will differ

from the discussions generally appearing

in technical journals in that they will present the

complete

results

investigations

of

an experiment or

series

of

which previously have appeared

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articles, if published at all.

they will

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On

detailed

by confining themselves to specific proband in presenting the subject in as summary a manner and with as little technical detail as is consistent with sound method. treatises

lems of current interest,

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be written not only for the

but for the educated layman.

specialist

THE ANTIQUITY OF DISEASE

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THE ANTIQUITY OF DISEASE By

Roy

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Associate Professor of

Anatomy

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University of Illinois

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Published

March 1023

Composed and Printed By The University of Chicago Press Chicago,

Illinois,

U.S.A.

TO THE MEMORY OF

SAMUEL WENDELL WILLISTON

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PREFACE The study of the ancient evidences of disease is known as paleopathology. The antiquity of the evidence is

very great, measured in millions of years, and includes

data from the oldest geological examples of pathology, from the earhest dependent associations of animals and plants, and from the appearances of disease on the remains of the ancient

human

The beginning

races.

and the exact time of closing the study of paleopathology Perhaps are uncertain and somewhat indefinite dates.

we may say

that the study of this subject includes n