endemic

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Camp on large island of Shikoku in the north near Inland Sea, on fertile plain between hills covered with pines; good climate; no endemical diseases.

From Time Magazine Archive

The evils I have witnessed were due to a want of care on this head more than to any endemical quality in our climate.

From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by Dadd, George

Some time before Small-pox was extirpated," says the Professor, "there came a new malady of the spiritual sort on Europe: I mean the epidemic, now endemical, of View-hunting.

From Sartor Resartus: the life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh by Carlyle, Thomas

The aspect of the places subject to the ravages of typhus seems often to exclude all idea of a local or endemical origin.

From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 by Ross, Thomasina

When the weather breaks many fall sick, this being the time of an endemical sickness, for seasonings, cachexes, fluxes, scorbutical dropsies, gripes, or the like which I have attributed to this reason.

From Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699 by Hughes, Thomas Proctor