Girolamo Frascatoro (Hieronymus Fracastorius)
Girolamo Frascatoro (Hieronymus Fracastorius) circa 1478-1553. Italian physician, poet and astronomer. Germ theory of disease. Best remembered for work in rhyme describing Syphilis Syphilis sive morbus Gallicus (Syphilis or the French Disease) 1530. Engraving
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13907570
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World History Archive / Mary Evans Picture Library
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1530 Astronomer Describing Gallicus Germ Girolamo Hieronymus Remembered Rhyme Sive Syphilis Theory Venereal
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