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"Like a virgin": Absence of rheumatoid arthritis and treponematosis, good sanitation and only rare gout in Italy prior to the 15th century.

OBJECTIVES: This study was conducted to test several hypotheses: 1. That rheumatoid arthritis and syphilis were New World diseases, only transmitted to the Old World subsequent to the passages of Christopher Columbus; 2. To indirectly test the…

Tags: *Fossils, 2004, Ancient, Arthritis, Coppa A, Gout/epidemiology/*history, History, Humans, Italy, Medieval, Petrone P P, Reumatismo, Rheumatoid/*history, Rothschild B M, Sanitation/*history/standards, Treponemal Infections/*history

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