He seems himself to have suffered from a severe attack of typhus fever which raged Epidemically in Vienna in 1798. Auenbrugger had a wide circle of interests beyond the subject of medicine.
"Makers of Modern Medicine"
James J. Walsh
The revival of interest in the metaphysical powers of man which expressed itself almost Epidemically through such widely divergent cults as Theosophy and Christian Science, was indubitable proof of spiritual yearnings in the broader masses of the people.
"Prophets of Dissent Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy"
Otto Heller
I think it should, for it is contagious, infectious, runs a fairly definite course, is attended with invariable external appearances, often prevails Epidemically, and one attack preserves in most instances from a second.
"The Mother's Manual of Children's Diseases"
Charles West, M.D.