(DOWNLOAD) "The Third Great Plague" by John Hinchman Stokes ~ Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: The Third Great Plague
- Author : John Hinchman Stokes
- Release Date : January 01, 1961
- Genre: Medical,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 307 KB
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Syphilis was unknown in Europe until the return of Columbus and his sailors from America, and its progress over the civilized world can be traced step by step, or better, in leaps and bounds, from that date. It came from the island of Haiti, in which it was prevalent at the time the discoverers of America landed there, and the return of Columbus's infected sailors to Europe was the signal for a blasting epidemic, which in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries devastated Spain, Italy, France, and England, and spread into India, Asia, China, and Japan.