For the first time, the poem by Girolamo Fracastorii has been fully published in a book containing photos of the original from 1530, in Latin, accompanied by the Portuguese version. Much of this Portuguese version was prepared by the Portuguese doctor Bettencourt Raposo, between 1883 and 1885. Part of it was presented in a magnificent …
Pedro António Bettencourt Raposo was born on May 14th, 1853, in Lisbon, Portugal. Physician and surgeon at the Lisbon Civil Hospitals, he was also secretary and librarian at the Medical-Surgical School of the Portuguese capital. He wrote on Deontology and Jurisprudence for medical education reform. He founded the journal Medicina Contemporânea, in which he published, …
President Bill Clinton apologized publicly to the survivors of the “Tuskegee Experience” at an afternoon ceremony at the White House. The experience, which took place between 1932 and 1972, took about 400 black Americans with syphilis to go years without having the disease treated so that it could be better analyzed. During the process, they …
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Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov was born on May 16th, 1845. In 1903, Metchnikov and Roux discovered that syphilis was transmissible to monkeys, thus destroying the old theory that the disease was exclusively human and inaccessible for experiments (DSB 9: 334). https://www.baumanrarebooks.com/rare-books/metchnikoff-elie/ etudes-experimentales-sur-la-syphilis/76790.aspx
