Ruy Díaz de Isla

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Tractado contra el mal serpentino . Seville 1539. Title page

Ruy Díaz de Isla also Rodrigo Díaz de Isla (* 1462; † 1542) was a Spanish doctor.

Live and act

Díaz practiced as a doctor in Barcelona in 1493 and later in Seville , and he worked for ten years as a surgeon at the “ Hospital de todos os Santos ” in Lisbon . Díaz said he had treated Columbus' crew members for syphilitic ulcers upon their return from Central America . He had never seen such ulcers before. He concluded that the new disease had been introduced to Europe from Hispaniola (island of Haiti).

Fonts

  • Tractado contra el mal serpentine . Seville 1539 (written approx. 1510) (digitized version) Bonofacio Montejo (approx. 1825–1890) discovered a manuscript of this book (Codex P, No. 42), the date of which he estimated it was written before 1521, in the National Library in Madrid. (Bloch 1901, p. 179).
  • Tractado llamado fructo de todos los [s] anctos contra el mal serpentino, venido de la ysla Española / hecho y ordenado ... por el muy famoso maestro Ruy diaz de Ysla ... Seville 1542 (digitized version ) .

literature

  • Ernst Julius Gurlt and August Hirsch . Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of all times and peoples. Volume II, Urban & Schwarzenberg, Vienna and Leipzig 1885, pp. 176–177 (digitized version ) .
  • Ivan Bloch . The origin of syphilis. G. Fischer, Jena, Volume I 1901, pp. 174-184 (digitized version ) .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Francisco de Solano: America y la España del siglo XVI. I, CSIC, 1982, ISBN 84-00-05154-8 , p. 299.
personal data
SURNAME Díaz de Isla, Ruy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish doctor
DATE OF BIRTH 1462
DATE OF DEATH 1542