1. The History of Smallpox
... syphilis and measles in early writings. The first reliable account of smallpox was by a Persian doctor named Rhazes who described the symptoms of smallpox and contrasted it with measles. Around 570, Bishop Marius of Avicentum coined the Latin word variola (meaning pox) to describe diseases that included smallpox, but it was not until the 1500s that variola became commonly known as ... ...
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