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among the Lacedemonians, who were in part of Jewish 

 extraction. But in 800 B.C. it was in Palestine, and well 

 known to the Jewish priesthood; yet shortly after this period 

 we do not again hear of it in Asia, Greece, or in any place 

 outside Egypt, until the time of Pompey the Great. 



Attempting to go further back into the sources of disease 

 and epidemics than the period history assigns for the 

 founding of Rome, 753 B.C., some examination is made of 

 the period of the Biblical record of the Noachian flood 

 to the Egyptian exodus, this is called the epidemic of human 

 decay, and as no idea is given of the diseases of men at this 

 period, but only their longevity, it is further named the 

 chronographic epidemic. 



This epidemic lasted through an era of about 850 years, 

 and is called the period of induction of human diseases. 

 From the Egyptian exodus on to 745 B.C. is a period of 

 about 746 years when diseases became established in such 

 manner, as the decay of the constitution of man rarely 

 sustained its vital integrity beyond 70 to 80 years. Subse- 

 quent to this time epidemic eras have been pretty regular 

 in their recurrence, of about every 640 years more or less. 



The most important of all subjects to establish is the 

 veracity of the chronographic epidemium, inasmuch as it 

 affected life the most markedly of all, and its proof lies 

 upon the veracity of the Bible, than which no book is more 

 doubted in its ancient historical details, and proof from outside 

 itself is most desirable. To this end the great pyramid and 



