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

• Egile Nagusiak: B.M. Rothschild (Egilea), A. Coppa (Egilea), PP. Petrone (Egilea)
• Formatua: Liburua
• Argitaratua: PAGEPress Publications, 2004-03-01T00:00:00Z.
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Origin of disease has special interest for rheumatologists, for whom absence of etiologic information generally mandates empirical approaches. Hypotheses have been offered that rheumatoid arthritis and syphilis were New World diseases, only transmitted to the Old World subsequent to the passages of...