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A diagnostic criterion of a disease, by definition (pp. 26, 102, 124) should proclaim the presence of that disease in the person from whom the skeleton came, and thus, perhaps, in the community.
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Hackett, C.J. (1976). Recognition of a Disease in a Past Population. In: Diagnostic Criteria of Syphilis, Yaws and Treponarid (Treponematoses) and of Some Other Diseases in Dry Bones. Sitzungsberichte der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Klasse, vol 1976 / 4. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-06583-9_6
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