. Epitome of the history of medicine : based upon a course of lectures delivered in the University of Buffalo. into the wells from which the French drew theirwater. These wild views simply indicate the spirit of theage. Oviedo published in 1545 a history of the WestIndies, in which he states that syphilis originated in Amer-ica. He held that when Columbus returned from hissecond expedition to the New Worlds in 1496, his menenlisted under Gonsalvo de Cordova to go and fight theFrench, who had invaded the Kingdom ol Naples, andthat they communicated to the French and Neapolitansthe disease which
. Epitome of the history of medicine : based upon a course of lectures delivered in the University of Buffalo. into the wells from which the French drew theirwater. These wild views simply indicate the spirit of theage. Oviedo published in 1545 a history of the WestIndies, in which he states that syphilis originated in Amer-ica. He held that when Columbus returned from hissecond expedition to the New Worlds in 1496, his menenlisted under Gonsalvo de Cordova to go and fight theFrench, who had invaded the Kingdom ol Naples, andthat they communicated to the French and Neapolitansthe disease which they had brought from San for his veracity, it is certain that syphilis brokeout in Naples at least two years before the arrival of theSpanish fleet. It is equally certain that at none of thepoints at which Columbus touched on his return from hisfirst expedition was there any manifestation of syphilisfor years. At this time the venereal disease, so-called, includedthose conditions which we now differentiate under thenames of syphilis, chancroid, and gonorrhoea,—a confusion t7^1na>. Fig. 20.—Different Forms of Trephines and Pliers. (From the Works on Chirurgerie, by Jacques Guillemeau, chirurgeon ordinaryto the King of France, 16-19.) 138 THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE. of diseases which persisted even up to the time of JohnHunter. It is worth while to publish this fact, sincewriters of two or three hundred years ago may not havemeant by the term syphilis just what we would meanto-day. Without going into this question here, it isenough to say that one who reads intelligently may see inthe Sacred Scriptures unmistakable allusions to this dis-ease. If the statements of David, as contained in thePsalms, are reliable, he was himself a serious sufferer fromit. The ancient Greek and Arabian physicians make men-tion of lesions which could only be attributed to this dis-ease ; and the Latin satirists, like Horace and Juvenal,describe symptoms of a certain kind as bein
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