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Ulrich von Hutten
21 de April
Ulrich von Hutten was born on April 21st, 1488. He was a German knight, scholar, and satirical poet, who later became a follower of Martin Luther and a Protestant reformer. In the last 15 years of his life, Hutten suffered from the “French disease” (or syphilis), from which he died. He wrote, in 1519, “De morbo Gallico” (about the French disease), in which he addressed the symptoms of what was thought to be syphilis and its treatment with Guaiacum. His text is considered one of the first patient narratives in the history of medicine. The portrait that the German painter Hans Holbein (the Young) made of Ulrich, in 1523, is the first known realistic portrait of a person with the disease.