Italian doctors have compiled a lot of facts and evidence to substantiate the theory that the greatest artist of the era faded away because of a disease that is similar to the new coronavirus infection and not from syphilis.
The famous Italian painter and architect Raphael died in 1520. The artist was buried with military honors in the Vatican, and later the remains moved to the Pantheon, where year-round on the tomb is freshly cut red rose. A famous myth says that Rafael so early, at the age of 37 years, passed away due to syphilis. Version has become popular because the artist was considered a ladies ‘ man.
A new study of Italian medical practitioners, published in the journal Internal and Emergency Medicine, showed that its role in the tragic finale of the artist played a medical error, and the cause of death was respiratory disease. According to contemporaries, found in the course of the research, the best doctors, sent by the Pope from Rome, tried to “knock down” the high temperature of bloodletting. This, according to the authors from the University of Milan-Bicocca, and killed Raphael.
In the XVI century, the doctors still believed in the benefits of bloodletting, but knew that removing “excess” blood from the body through the incision in the skin or by using leeches can be harmful for respiratory diseases. Therefore, researchers believe that the erroneous action of the doctors gave the wrong diagnosis based on an inaccurate story by Raphael. Probably, the artist shared with the doctors a number of sexual relations, but did not mention the fact that regularly visited mistresses even in the chilly evenings. Hypothermia, apparently led to lung disease, reminiscent of the novel coronavirus infection.
The conclusion of the researchers is based on the evidence at that time. Reports on the death of the artist show that the illness lasted 15 days. Rafael was assembled enough to get my Affairs in order, to confess sins and go suicide the rites of the Church. However, all this time the artist was tormented by high constant temperature, indicating the body to fight the virus.
Recently picked up by the sexually transmitted infection: gonorrhea or syphilis, could not be accompanied by an increase in temperature. The acute manifestations of these diseases that have long been “sitting” in the body, does not happen without the “striking” symptoms, which were necessarily recorded the best physicians of Rome. At that time in Rome, there were epidemics of typhus or plague. Take turns eliminating likely candidates for killer of the great artist, the study authors came to a lung infection.
