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Fracastoro

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Fra·cas·to·ro (fräkä-str), Girolamo 1483-1553.
Italian physician and poet who wrote the poem Syphilis sive morbus Gallicus (1530), in which the name syphilis was first given to the disease.


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[8][9] These ideas about the contagious nature of some diseases became more popular in Europe during the Renaissance, particularly through the writing of Girolamo Fracastoro.
Early medical commentators on syphilis, such as Gaspar Torella and Francisco Lopez de Villalobos, Jacques de Bethencourt, and Girolamo Fracastoro, detailed the symptoms of the disease, which proved most virulent in the first decades after its appearance in Europe, and which became marginally less severe by the end of the sixteenth century.
English writers may have absorbed Lucretian ideas also from the work of Girolamo Fracastoro, the Veronese physician who proposed that disease was not a humoral state but a migratory semina or seed that entered the body through its orifices.
 
 
 
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