Typical Osseous Syphilis in a Medieval Skeletal Remains from Hokkaido

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  • 北海道出土の一中世人骨にみられた典型的骨梅毒症について
  • ホッカイドウ シュツド ノ イチチュウセイ ジンコツ ニ ミラレタ テンケイテ

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A mature male skeleton excavated from a medieval castle site (Katsu-yama-Tate) at Kaminokuni township on the southwestern coast of okkaido showing characteristic pathological changes on the bones which could be diagnosed as typical or demonstrable osseous syphilis is described palaeopatho-logically. From archaeological and chronological evidences, the skeletal materials used seem to belong to the latter half of the 16th century (the late Muromachi period).<br>The case of osseous syphilis presented in this paper is worthy of special note in that it is an indication of how serious and virulent the early prevalence of syphilis was among the Japanese population during the period immediately following the transmission of this vicious venereal infection into Japan.

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