A brief history of syphilis in the Czech Lands

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12520-017-0558-6" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12520-017-0558-6</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12520-017-0558-6" target="_blank" >10.1007/s12520-017-0558-6</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

A brief history of syphilis in the Czech Lands

Original language description

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.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30216 - Dermatology and venereal diseases

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

ISSN

1866-9557

e-ISSN

1866-9565

Volume of the periodical

11

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

521-530

UT code for WoS article

000458608900008

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85041598114