Editing Syphilis (section)

===Names===
Syphilis was first called ''grande verole'' or the "great pox" by the French. Other historical names have included "button scurvy", sibbens, frenga and dichuchwa, among others.<ref name=Grauer2011>{{cite book |last1=Grauer |first1=Anne L. |title=A Companion to Paleopathology |date=2011 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=9781444345926 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oztEGntPsFgC&pg=PT643 |page=643|access-date=23 August 2020 |archive-date=11 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220111075316/https://books.google.com/books?id=oztEGntPsFgC&pg=PT643 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Tagarelli |first1=A |last2=Lagonia |first2=P |last3=Tagarelli |first3=G |last4=Quattrone |first4=A |last5=Piro |first5=A |title=The relation between the names and designations of syphilis in the 16th century and its clinical gravity. |journal=Sexually Transmitted Infections |date=April 2011 |volume=87 |issue=3 |pages=247 |doi=10.1136/sti.2010.048405 |pmid=21325442|s2cid=19185641 }}</ref> Since it was a disgraceful disease, the disease was known in several countries by the name of their neighbouring, often hostile country.<ref name=pmid24653750/> The English, the Germans, and the Italians called it "the French disease", while the French referred to it as the "Neapolitan disease". The Dutch called it the "Spanish/Castilian disease".<ref name=pmid24653750/> To the Turks it was known as the "Christian disease", whilst in India, the Hindus and Muslims named the disease after each other.<ref name=pmid24653750/>
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