It first spread into Italy in the middle of Tiberius Claudius' principate when a Roman knight from Perusia, a quaestor's secretary, introduced the disease from Asia Minor where he had served. Women were immune to it, likewise slaves and the lower middle classes. Nobles, however, were particularly susceptible through the quick contact of kissing. The scar, which remained on many who had undergone treatment, was more disfiguring than the actual disease itself. The disease was cured by the application of caustic, but flared up again unless the flesh was cauterized through to the bone.
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