Columbus and the Indians. (origins of European syphilis) (Columbus and the New World Order 1492-1992)

From: Monthly Review | Date: July 1, 1992| Author: Rosebury, Theodor | Copyright information

Dr. Webster's invitation to review the story of Columbus and his relation to the origin of syphilis has given me the impetus to reconsider the subject for the third time. I went over it first nearly forty years ago, in 1934. As a junior instructor in bacteriology at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York at that time, I was asked by F.P. Gay, the head of the department, to write the chapter on "Spirochetes and Spirochetal Diseases" in what emerged a year later as the bu...

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