Sexual disease and its medical prevention / by H.N. Robson.

  • Robson, H. N.
Date:
1911
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Credit: Sexual disease and its medical prevention / by H.N. Robson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Syphilis ' I ''HERE has been a good deal of controversy as to the origin of syphilis, whether it was known to the human race in olden time, or whether it arose in the fifteenth century for the first time, or whether, again, it was brought from the New World by the Spaniards. Recent investi- gations of the archives in Madrid almost prove that it was brought from the West Indies, and that the pilot of Columbus, Pinzon, was suffering from the disease. However, it is sufficient here to mention that Columbus returned to Europe after his dis- covery of America in 1493, and that the following is to be found in the “Fifth booke of Maister John Vigo of Gennuai, of the French Pockes ”:—“In the yeare of our Lorde 1494 in the moneth of De- cember when Charles the French King tooke his journey into ye partes of Italie to recover the Kingdom of Naples, there appeared a certaine