rare0. In Dicts. also lœmology. [ad. mod.L. loimologia (N. Hodges, 1672), f. as prec. + -LOGY.] The study of, or a treatise on, the plague or pestilential diseases.
[1720. Quincy, trans. (title), Hodges Loimologia.]
1848. in Craig.
1864. in J. Thomas, Med. Dict.