A brief history of syphilis in the Czech Lands

J 2019

A brief history of syphilis in the Czech Lands

VARGOVÁ, Lenka, Kateřina VYMAZALOVÁ and Ladislava HORÁČKOVÁ

Basic information

Original name

A brief history of syphilis in the Czech Lands

Authors

VARGOVÁ, Lenka (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Kateřina VYMAZALOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Ladislava HORÁČKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, HEIDELBERG, SPRINGER HEIDELBERG, 2019, 1866-9557

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

30216 Dermatology and venereal diseases

Country of publisher

Germany

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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Impact factor

Impact factor: 2.063

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14110/19:00111107

Organization unit

Faculty of Medicine

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12520-017-0558-6

UT WoS

000458608900008

Keywords in English

Syphilis; Czech Lands; Specific inflammations; Paleopathology

Abstract

V originále

From the end of the fifteenth century, the massive expansion of syphilis had a distinct effect on the historical development of Europe. Due to this disease, firstly the numbers of the European population were reduced; thereafter, moral and ethical principles were significantly affected and the combat readiness of armies decreased. The disease forced new legislation which was of vital importance for the development of health services. The Czech Lands, located in Central Europe, were also no exception. The material presented summarises the available information on this disease obtained from written sources and from the study of direct evidence of skeletal remains from archaeological sites of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia. Traces of syphilitic bone affliction have observed in almost every large early modern osteological collection to date. A number of currently documented palaeopathological findings of syphilitic changes in bones from the Czech Lands do not by a long stretch correspond to the data presented in literary sources on the mass occurrence of this disease. The submitted study aims to extend current knowledge in this area and thereby to complete a complex view of the development of syphilis in Central Europe.

Citovat

VARGOVÁ, Lenka, Kateřina VYMAZALOVÁ and Ladislava HORÁČKOVÁ. A brief history of syphilis in the Czech Lands. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. HEIDELBERG: SPRINGER HEIDELBERG, 2019, vol. 11, No 2, p. 521-530. ISSN 1866-9557. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12520-017-0558-6.

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VARGOVÁ, Lenka, Kateřina VYMAZALOVÁ and Ladislava HORÁČKOVÁ. A brief history of syphilis in the Czech Lands. \textit{Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences}. HEIDELBERG: SPRINGER HEIDELBERG, 2019, vol.~11, No~2, p.~521-530. ISSN~1866-9557. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12520-017-0558-6.

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