Fever was what-you-may-call-it there-yes, "endemic"-that was the word; "oh, thank you, Dr. Cumberledge."
"Hilda Wade A Woman With Tenacity Of Purpose"
Grant Allen
Yet, on his return to Europe, Montholon stoutly maintained that the liver complaint endemic to St. Helena had been the death of his master.
"The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)"
John Holland Rose
The piteous description of miserable Calabria, and the picture of the sad situation of the Bishop of Martorano, appeared to me more likely to call forth tears than to excite hilarity, and, suspecting that some mystification was being played upon me, I was very near getting angry when, becoming more composed, he told me with feeling that I must kindly excuse him; that his laughter was a disease which seemed to be endemic in his family, for one of his uncles died of it.
"The Memoires of Casanova, Complete The Rare Unabridged London Edition Of 1894, plus An Unpublished Chapter of History, By Arthur Symons"
Jacques Casanova de Seingalt