An historical investigation into the first appearance of the venereal disease in Europe : with remarks on its particular nature : to which are added, observations on the non-necessity of quarantines being observed against the plague, by the vessels arriving from the Mediterranean at British, French, and other ports / by M. Sanchez ; translated from the French by Joseph Skinner.

  • Sanches, António Nunes Ribeiro, 1699-1783.
Date:
1790
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Credit: An historical investigation into the first appearance of the venereal disease in Europe : with remarks on its particular nature : to which are added, observations on the non-necessity of quarantines being observed against the plague, by the vessels arriving from the Mediterranean at British, French, and other ports / by M. Sanchez ; translated from the French by Joseph Skinner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Thus, by the quotations from Pintor and Delphini, we find that the plague raged in Italy fo far back as March 1493. The fir ft:, and, what is more, the only author of thole times, who averted that the venereal difeafe was brought from the ifland of St. Domingo, is Gon^alo d’Oviedo, during the fecond voyage of Columbus, at his fe- cond return, on the eighth of June 149b* In his firft voyage, Oviedo has not fpoken of the venereal difeafe. Thefe appear to me to be fuch demon- ffrative proofs, as Van Swieten has required in the fifth volume of his Commentaries. As I am perfuaded, that he would have been fatisfied with them, it is unneceffary for me to reply to his other obje6tions againft the exiftence of the Venereal Difeafe in Italy. Pintor, in the fourth chapter of his work, entitled Aggregator Sententiarum, fhows, that the Venereal Difeafe exifted in Italy. quae fuper vcntura eft a rege francorum grave bellum im~ mlnere, omnes affirmant Lugdunum jam fe contulit rex, exercitibus in immenfum acutis ad hax metuunt ne tanta gallorum multitudine Italiam aut penitus morbo im* munem, ingrediente vitiatur ac longe magis. C 3 Eight