HLTB21H3 Lecture 6: plagues and people lecture 6 syphilis

• School: UTSC
• Department: Health Studies
• Course: HLTB21H3
• Professor: Safieh Moghaddam

Document Summary

1494 king charles 8 of france invaded italy! During the same time there was an outbreak in. England france and germany the epidemic spread throughout europe. Around the same time as the columbian voyages. A pamphlet (on syphilis) was made (french evil) during the epidemic. A book was published by giovanni de vigo and described the disease. (extent of the disease, different names of the disease). The disease was contagious and they knew it was a std. Origin of the term syphilis was given by girolamo. Fracastoro syphilis sive morbus gallicus (1530) in the epic wrote a poem about a shepard boy named syphilis who insulted a god and was punished with the disease. The countries blamed and named syphilis on their. Enemy country so syphilis was known as the. French disease, italian disease, spanish disease, polish disease, christian disease, and british disease it was also know as the great pox, lues,