Note 170 — Chapter IV · THE FOURTH VISITATION OF THE DISEASE.—1528, 1529.
B. G. (Benjamin Guy) Babington translation
The Spanish name for the lues venerea, which it obtained in consequence of the prevailing eruptions. It corresponds with the French “la vérole,” and with the German “französische Pocken.” We must not, therefore, think that it means “buboes.” Sandoval, Part II. pp. 12. 14. Compare Astruc, T. I. p. 4.