HLTB21H3 Lecture Notes - Hideyo Noguchi, Treponema Pallidum, Girolamo Fracastoro
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Tuskegee study: 399 black men were enlisted and were told they had bad blood , and rejected treatment even when penicillin came into use in 1947. This study symbolized racism in medicine, ethical misconduct in medical research and government abuse of society"s most vulnerable. Disease swept across europe and rest of world starting from 1493. Claim is that this diease was brought to naples by spanish troops sent to support alphonso ii of naples against french king charles vii. Within 5 years of its arrival in europe, the disease was epidemic. French called it disease of naples blaming italians, while italians called it the french disease . How did charles men contracted the disease: columbian theory: upon arrival of columbus on spain, some of its crew joined army of. Charles and could have carried it to europe: pre-columbian theory: syphilis present in europe for thousands of years.
