#epidemiology definition
- Anti-pestilential — Combating, preventing, or neutralizing the plague, cholera, or other contagious diseases of an epidemic and destructive nature; a substance or administrative measure structurally designed in the past to halt the spread of devastating epidemics. In a historical sense, it describes the sanitary protocols, fumigations, or remedies used by physicians to disinfect the air and hospitals during major waves of pestilence.