HISTORY OF SYPHILIS a night with Venus a lifetime with Mercury

In 1025 the Persian physician Abu Ali al- Hussein known as Avicenna (980-1037) in his book Qanun fit-Tibb at translated into Latin by Gerardo da Cremona as Liber canonis medicinae suggests the use of mercury in syphilis. Successively this therapy came in Europe and beyond for use in the form of an ointment / poultice the mercury was widely used in fumigation. Therefore appealed the sentence at this time A night with Venus a lifetime with Mercury. In Rome towards the end of the '400 clandestines excluding were available approximately 6800 prostitutes. In Venice the prostitutes were forced to walk with a yellow handkerchief around the neck like sign of acknowledgment. It was the sexual abstinence that the Church adopted as a remedy in order to avoid such disease and Pope Paul IV around to the half of the '500 decreed with an edict an evicting from Rome and all the Papal State of the prostitutes.