Exploration And Researches Concerning The Destruction Of The Aboriginal Inhabitants Of America By Various Diseases As Syphilis, Matlazahuatl, Pestilence, Malarial Fever, And Small-Pox.
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A review of the historical literature and the Spanish accounts about syphilis fails to settle definitively whether or not pre-Columbian syphilis existed. But, the fact that the existence of syphilis was not noted by the early explorers is no proof that it didn't exist, according to the author. Ancient bones unearthed from show evidence of lesions bearing a resemblance to syphilis. Footnotes.