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Edited by O.P. Arya and C.A. Hart. 462 pp., illustrated. New York, CABI, 1998. $110. ISBN 0-85199-262-5.

In 1492, Columbus discovered the New World; one year later, the Old World discovered a new disease. And what a disease it was — starting with "painful pustules on private parts spreading to body and face, rashes, ulcers, buboes, black pustules, carbuncles, agonizing and swollen joints, lassitude, fever, rotting flesh, blindness and death . . . the symptoms lingering for years in survivors." In graphic detail, Nicolo Leoniceno (1428 to 1524), a professor of physic in Ferrara, Italy, thus portrayed syphilis, the first international sexually transmitted disease.

Could Leoniceno have imagined the costs of sexually transmitted diseases 500 years after . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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