Syphilis. Depending upon someone's thoughts as to where
the disease came from, syphilis was also known as the Italian, Spanish, German and
Polish disease. The name "syphilis" was coined by Hieronymus Fracastorius (Girolamo
Fracastoro). Fracastorius was a true Renaissance man; he wrot e on the temperature
of wines, the rise of the Nile, poetry, the mind, and the soul; he was an astronomer,
geographer, botanist, mathematician, philosopher and, last but not least in the
present context, a physician. In 1530 he published the poem "Syphilis sive morbus
gallicus" (Syphilis or the French Disease) in which the name of the disease first
appeared. Perhaps more importantly, Fracastorius went on in 1546 to write "On Contagion"
("De contagione et contagiosis morbis et curatione"), the first known discussion
of the phenomenon of contagious infection: a landmark in the history of infectious
disease.
Common Misspellings: french diease, french desease
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