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Before the designation "mal francese/morbus gallicus" achieved its \noverwhelming dominance in Renaissance Europe, and the venereal transmission \nof chis condition was generally accepted, the new disease was given other \nnames and assigned very different identities in and outside ltaly. This paper \nexplores in contemporary medical sources (both printed and manuscript) its \nearly traces in the Crown of Castile at the turn of the sixteenth century. The \nfocus is on those medical perceptions of the origins, nature, name, and causes \nof the «French Pox» that were more specific to late fifteenth-century Castile, \nwith particular attention to the earliest debates regarding a question that will \nbe avidly discussed for centuries: whether this disease affected ordinary men \nmore than nobility or quite the opposite.
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Before the designation "mal francese/morbus gallicus" achieved its \noverwhelming dominance in Renaissance Europe, and the venereal transmission \nof chis condition was generally accepted, the new disease was given other \nnames and assigned very different identities in and outside ltaly. This paper \nexplores in contemporary medical sources (both printed and manuscript) its \nearly traces in the Crown of Castile at the turn of the sixteenth century. The \nfocus is on those medical perceptions of the origins, nature, name, and causes \nof the «French Pox» that were more specific to late fifteenth-century Castile, \nwith particular attention to the earliest debates regarding a question that will \nbe avidly discussed for centuries: whether this disease affected ordinary men \nmore than nobility or quite the opposite.
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