PHSC 401 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Occupational Safety And Health, Thomas Sydenham, General Authority
31 Jan 2017
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At first it was believed that columbus"s men brought it back from america -- this gained support for a long time. Witnesses, columbus"s contemporaries claimed the disease was from people returning from america. Some spoke of general and traditional causes of the disease as the wrath of god and/or unfortunate conjunctions of heavenly bodies. On one hand columbus and the american indians had nothing to do with the sudden appearance in europe rather a phenomenon was slowly evolving. Basic unitary position maintains that different treponematoses are responsible for different diseases and evolve differently among different and geographically isolated human populations: why did european expeditions across the atlantic at the end of the 1400s and early. European expeditions by columbus led to the conquest of a large portion of the. Population of the americas in 1500 was between 50 and 100 million. By the middle of the 17th century the number had fallen below 10 million.
