Girolamo Frascatoro (Hieronymus Fracastorius) c1478-1553. Italian physician, poet and astronomer. Germ theory of disease. Best remembered for work in rhyme describing Syphilis "Syphilis sive morbus Gallicus" (Syphilis or the French Disease) 1530. Engravin

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