Syphilis in Shakespeare's England
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Published: June 21, 1994
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9781853022692
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1500 to c 1700; England; Ethical issues & debates; Public health & preventive medicine; Social history
First sentence: In 1530 the Veronese physician Girolamo Fracastoro (c. 1478-1553) published a poem called Syphilis sive morbus gallicus ('Syphilis or the French Disease') (Fracastoro, 1988, pp.26-95).*