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The Great Pox - The French Disease in Renaissance Europe (Paperback)
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The Great Pox - The French Disease in Renaissance Europe (Paperback)
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One hundred and fifty years after the Black Death killed a third of
the population of Western Europe, a new plague swept across the
continent. The Great Pox-commonly known as the French
disease-brought a different kind of horror: instead of killing its
victims rapidly, it endured in their bodies for years, causing
acute pain, disfigurement, and ultimately an agonizing death. In
this new study, three experts explore the impact of the new plague
and society's reaction to its challenge. Using a range of
contemporary sources, from the archives of charitable and sanitary
institutions that coped with the sick to the medical tracts of
those who sought to cure it, they provide the first detailed
account of the experience of the disease across Renaissance Italy
as well as in France and Germany. The authors analyze the symptoms
of the Great Pox and the identity of patients, richly documented in
the records of the massive hospital for "incurables" established in
early sixteenth-century Rome. They show how it challenged accepted
medical theory and practice and provoked public disputations among
university teachers. And at the most practical level, they reveal
the plight of its victims at all levels of society, from
ecclesiastical lords to the diseased poor who begged in the
streets. Examining a range of contexts from princely courts and
republics to university faculties, confraternities, and hospitals,
the authors argue powerfully for a historical understanding of the
Great Pox based on contemporary perceptions rather than a
retrospective diagnosis of what later generations came to know as
"syphilis."
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