History of the Peloponnesian War

Now let every man, physician or other, concerning the ground of this sickness, whence it sprung, and what causes he thinks able to produce so great an alteration, speak according to his own knowledge. For my own part, I will deliver but the manner of it and lay open only such things as one may take his mark by to discover the same if it come again, having been both sick of it myself and seen others sick of the same.

This year, by confession of all men, was of all other, for other diseases, most free and healthful. If any man were sick before, his disease turned to this;