Infectious Diseases in Historical Perspective: French Pox Versus Venereal Syphilis
Medical historiography has tended to almost automatically identify the disease that entered European medical and lay writings at the end of the 15th century as morbus gallicus with the present-day condition known as “venereal syphilis.” This identifica- tion, which goes back to the in...
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International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture
2021-07-01
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| Online Access: | https://www.on-culture.org/journal/issue-11/infectious-diseases-in-historical-perspective/ |