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While it has traditionally been associated with venereal syphilis, Dutch tropical physician Willem F. R. Essed proposed in 1933, largely unnoticed to this day, that this new disease might instead be tropical yaws. This study establishes a clear link between Hutten\u2019s reported symptoms and yaws, especially in its secondary and tertiary stages. The skeleton discovered in 1968 on Ufnau Island in Lake Zurich where Hutten died and was buried, exhibits distinct bone manifestations of ancient treponematosis with a pattern more consistent with yaws than syphilis. Furthermore, the correspondence between Hutten\u2019s main symptoms and the lesions observable on the 1968 skeleton further confirms the identification of these human remains. The historical evidence of yaws significantly contributes to our understanding of this early modern epidemic.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1017\/mdh.2024.38","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,2,5]],"date-time":"2025-02-05T08:07:28Z","timestamp":1738742848000},"page":"1-21","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/policypage","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["The poet Ulrich von Hutten (1488\u20131523) and the French disease: the records and human remains of a probable yaws patient"],"prefix":"10.1017","volume":"69","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0009-0515-4491","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Urs Leo","family":"Gantenbein","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"56","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,2,5]]},"reference":[{"key":"S0025727324000383_ref8","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.5771\/9783956509155"},{"volume-title":"Rezeption von Autor und Werk seit dem 16","year":"1984","author":"Kreutz","key":"S0025727324000383_ref9"},{"key":"S0025727324000383_ref32","first-page":"571","volume-title":"The Diseases of Warm Countries. 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