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DIAZ DE ISLA, Ruy (147 – 1542)

147 – 1542

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

1539 CE

#2367

Tractado cótra el mal serpentino.

Diaz de Isla, a Barcelonese surgeon, wrote of a disease “previously unknown, unseen and undescribed”, which appeared in Barcelona in 1493 and which was obviously syphilis. This is probably the earliest ref…