#i'll also bet money on malaria before i bet money on syphilis and also poisoning | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

attila-werther · 2 years ago

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as someone who reads books about renaissance medicine and the impact that syphilis had on italy for fun, this is a faulty conclusion to arrive to for at least three different reasons and also fuck sanuto! you don't actually have to cite sanuto! we HAVE testimony from like, five different physicians and doctors and I PROMISE you if it was syphilis the doctor from naples would've said so in his own notes, SANUTO WASN'T EVEN THEREEEEE and also. the thing about when sanuto listed people who were afflicted with the french disease. it included syphilis but was NOT limited to syphilis because it had a lot more to do with diseases of war, and the diagnostic rubric of the time mean that (I am forcibly removed from the podium)

#STOP CITING SANUTO ALL OF YOU ARE SMARTER THAN THIS I SWEAR TO GOD #HE'S NOT A PRIMARY SOURCE HERE. he's not even a good secondary source! also i hate him as a person.#more importantly you HAVE primary sources and you HAVE references to medical texts from the time!!#milan had two really impressive centers for medical study!!!!! they wrote down their methodology!!!!!!! we know how they thought!#anyway i'll get back to the first collapse but the second illness sounds a lot like a really REALLY gnarly case of pneumonia #esp bc the vatican apartments were not. great. high key they sucked. live in the vatican at your own peril (literally)#i'll also bet money on malaria before i bet money on syphilis and also poisoning #altho they called malaria 'the roman fever' for awhile. like. stop going to rome. stop sending your sons there! just dont do it!!

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