Sibbens or sivvens — The scottish yaws
- 1 September 1953
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- Vol. 47 (5) , 431-436
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0035-9203(53)80028-3
Abstract
The author argues that the Scottish sibbens was a treponematosis of low grade, allied to yaws and spread in the same manner. It was perhaps a form of the morbus gallicus, which, like its progenitor, is no longer a recognizable disease entity.Keywords
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