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Befides the above-men tlonsH difeafes, Tow&a, then commander 

 of the fleet, and one of the chiefs of Atahooroo,, had fymptoms 

 which every body took for the gout y he vv^as of a ftrong conflitu- 

 tion,, a corpuknt habit of body, and owed this difeafe no doubt to 

 intemperance,, which is common amongfl the great and wealthy of 

 all nation s^ I obferved likewife that the natives had frequently a: 

 iky in the eye, and fome fymptoms that ufually attend, the dropfy 

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a- poet, whofe book was printed at Florence, H89, defcribes lib. iii. ad priapum,. the. 

 veucreal difeafe In fuch a manner, that no doubt can be entertained of its being known ati 

 that period of time. In the church of St. Maria del Pbpolo, at Romcj is a fepulcraii 

 jQOnunient, ereded to the memory of Mario Alberti, ^^z annum agpis 



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inieriit^ J?mo. 1485, about eight years before Chriftopher Columbus returned from his fir^E 



•voyage. (See Viaggiana^ or detached Remarks on the BuiUhtgs^y PiSiuresy Statues^ Infcriptions^. 



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Sec, &c. of antient and modern Ronie^ London:^ 17.76.) The Jews who were eixp^lled from Spain,, 

 brought the difeafe into Africa, according to Leo African us^. Defer iptio Jfric^^ lib. i. p. 86». 

 tdit. Elxevir. Lugd. Bat^A^ii, j6°» and it was there for that rcafon (^'^Xt^ maliini Wfmnicimi^^ 

 the Spanifh cv.ll. But Mariana^ lib. xxxiv. cap* i. ad annum, 1492. foys expreilly^. that. 

 .the order-for the expulnon of the Jews from Spain, was given in 'Marchj. 1492,. an,d only 

 four months woi^e allowed them, fo that they w^ere probably gone in June- i49,2> before 



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ChriHopher Columbus failed for tire difcovery of America. Nor ai'c there tsflimonies wanting. 

 that in times ftill more remote, fymptoms of the^ venereal difeafe were well known : /£fonfus 

 I. King of Naples, died 1458, of the gonorrhcca, or as Triflano Carracciolo Vf Vmetats: 



foriuna^ expreffes it : tnorho infuper immundolS pertiiiaci^ in^cluniario fdlku infenfihlUque^, fi^^'"- 



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matis. fii;cu,* Ladiilas King of Naples, llkcwlfe. ditd 1414 



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