Fracastoro - Furasutoro (English spelling) Girolamo Fracastoro

Japanese: フラカストロ - ふらかすとろ（英語表記）Girolamo Fracastoro

Around 1478 - 1553
Italian physician of the Renaissance. He studied literature, philosophy, mathematics, astronomy, and medicine in Padua. He valued experience and sought the autonomous principles of nature. For example, he is notable for classifying infectious diseases according to the method of infection ((1) contact, (2) nearby objects such as clothing, and (3) distant objects such as seeds), and for rejecting astrological interpretations. He is particularly famous for his treatise on syphilis, and the disease that was rampant at the time is still called syphilis today, a reference to his work Syphilis, or the French Disease (1531), which was named after a beautiful Greek boy.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1478ころ‐1553
ルネサンス期イタリアの医学者。パドバで文学，哲学，数学，天文学，医学を学んだ。経験を重んじて自然の自律的な原理を求め，例えば伝染病を感染方法((1)接触，(2)服などの近接物，(3)種子的な遠隔物)によって分類し，占星術的解釈を排したことは注目される。梅毒論の著者として特に有名で，当時猛威をふるっていた梅毒を現在もシフィリスsyphilisと呼ぶのは，《シフィリス，またはフランス病》(1531)というギリシアの美少年の名にちなんだ彼の著作名から来ている。

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