Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: treatment of syphilis

  • Guadalupe: One of Spain’s oldest schools of medicine

    Nicolás Roberto RoblesBadajoz, Spain Guadalupe, a small Spanish town in the district of Cáceres, Extremadura, arose around a monastery. Legend says that a shepherd named Gil Cordero was looking for a stray sheep when the Virgin Mary appeared to him. When the shepherd told of this apparition, the clergymen of Cáceres went to the place…