Note 100 — Chapter XLIII · THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF SYPHILIS IN EUROPE AS AN EPIDEMIC DISEASE.—MEDICAL JOURNALISM.—THE BEGINNINGS OF A MODERN PHARMACOPOEIA.—ITINERANT LITHOTOMISTS
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For a confirmation of this statement see the poem on syphilis (“Enfermedad de las Bubas”) written by the Spanish physician Francesco Lopez de Villalobos and published by him in 1498 at Salamanca. The employment of mercurial inunctions is also mentioned in this poem.