Sketch of the revolutions of medical science, and views relating to its reform / by P.J.G. Cabanis ; translated from the French, with notes, by A. Henderson.

Date:
1806
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Credit: Sketch of the revolutions of medical science, and views relating to its reform / by P.J.G. Cabanis ; translated from the French, with notes, by A. Henderson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    took refuge In Italy, in order to fave tlieinfelv.s fiom the implacable fury of the Inqulfitiou, vvhofe rage had been evafperated by an infurre6tlon at Saragofl'a, in which one of the Inquilitors loft his life. But in 1492, an edia was ifliied, at the inftigation of the Grand Inquifitor, Torque- inada, by which all the Jews in Spain were ordered to quit the royal dominions, within the fpace of four months, and at the lame time prohibited from taking any money or other valuables along with them. L, confequeiic^e of this decree, about 170,000 families, or 800,000 peribns, Avere baniftied from the kingdom, a conliderable number of Avhom were conveyed, at the public expenfe, from Andaiufia, to dif- ferent parts of Africa, France, Italy, and Greece. Of thele, many contrived to gain admittance into Rome, Avhere notAvithftandmg the urgent reprefentations of tlie SpaniHi AmbalTador, they Avcre alloAved to remain after receiving the papal abfolution. In the month of Julv, 1493, tbe plague broke forth at Rome, and is faid by^ Infelfura to liave proceeded from the Jews. They Ai ere alfo accufed of having introduced a contagious diforder, Avhich, fomc weeks afterwards, prevailed at Naples, and by AAhich np- AAards of 20,000 perfons Avere carried off in the city of Naples alone. From the concurrent teftimony of difterei?t authors, it appears, that the Marranos were much given to debauchery, that leprous diforders Avere very common among them, and that an immenfe number of them died of the plague on their paffage from Spain: and it is even al* ferted by fome, that the Venereal difeafe firft appeared among them. But thefe accufations muft be in part afcribed to the national hatred with which they were fo long pur- fued. At all events, there is no certain evidence of the diforder having thus originated. 6. At firft, the Venereal difeafe feems to have been very fmiilai in its nature to leproly and other impetiginous dif- orders.