• DOI:10.1136/sti.2010.048405
Corpus ID: 19185641

The relation between the names and designations of syphilis in the 16th century and its clinical gravity

@article{Tagarelli2011TheRB,
  title={The relation between the names and designations of syphilis in the 16th century and its clinical gravity},
  author={A. Tagarelli and P. Lagonia and G. Tagarelli and A. Quattrone and A. Piro},
  journal={Sexually Transmitted Infections},
  year={2011},
  volume={87},
  pages={247 - 247}
}

A. Tagarelli, P. Lagonia, +2 authors A. Piro

Published 2011

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In this letter we describe the names and designations used to describe the symptoms and signs of syphilis by physicians and men of letters from the late 15th century. Pedro Pintor calls it a ‘disgusting and hidden disease’; he shows that the disease is not present in infancy, and rarely in old age, and affects both male and female pudenda. The seriousness of the disease is confirmed by Jean Molinet: ‘a violent, horrible, and abominable disease is spread…’. Marin Sanudo calls it a …