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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.

In A. D. 1300 in Poland, more precisely in the region of Kashubia, was coined the term "nachzeher" to define the female vampire, or "chewing the shroud" or "devourer of the night." The Nachzehrer would be a special kind of vampire who lives in a constant state of numbness in his grave, without understanding what is happening around and just like a child, chewing spasmodically his dress. Martin B hm wrote in 1601: "We have seen in times of the plague how dead people especially women - who have died of the plague make smacking noises in their graves, like a pig that is eating, and that while this smacking is going on the plague becomes much worse, usually in the same family, and people die one after the other." The theologian Philip Rohr's in 1679, in his presentation at the University of Leipzig, "Historico-Dissertatio Philosophica de Mastication Mortuorum" also known as "chewing Mortuorum", describes in detail the behavior of these dead.

Dedicated to the study of rare cutaneous diseases. A disease is defined as rare in Europe when it affects less than 1 in 2000 citizens, in the USA if it affects fewer than 200,000 Americans.