Royal disease (Vasilios nósos): Substantiating one of the names of tuberculosis in Greek, from “Atakta” dictionary by Adamantios Korais, (1832-1835)

Abstract

The purpose of the present article is to substantiate the Greek name of Βασίλειoς νόσoς (Vasilios nósos) about tu-berculosis, with the analysis of what Adamantios Korais mentions about scrofula in his dictionary “Atakta”. Korais relates the story of medicinal Royal touch aboutscrofula connects and identifies the king with the name of the disease. © 2022, EDIMES Edizioni Medico Scientifiche. All rights reserved.