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83 The name bubas comes from the distinctive sores and swellings that appear on all parts of the body, including the skin of the palms and soles, and in the mouth as well as around the genitalia and the anus.

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In 1527, one of the first acts of the new Ayuntamiento was to issue an order prohibiting unlicensed practitioners from treating "those that are sick with bubas and other sores or pains ... on penalty of sixty gold pesos for each time done to the contrary."

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Syphilis, in some of its dermatologic manifestations, resembles leprosy; and, as Esteyneffer notes, bubas and scurvy are sometimes confused because their pains in the joints and bones are similar.

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In his treatise on medicine, Farfán expressed "great sorrow for those I see each day who die of the sickness of bubas"; he warns his readers there are many who claim to know how to cure this illness, but end up leaving their patients "worse than when they began the cure."

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If sufferers of bubas, as the disease was then commonly called, were thick on the ground in the new colony, so were a myriad of healers peddling remedies for this affliction.

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Las dos primeras fueron aplicadas en el tratamiento de las bubas, mal francs o sfilis, creando gran expectativa en los siglos XVI y XVII, por lo que su comercializacin hacia Europa fue muy intensa; posteriormente se vio que sus efectos eran limitados o nulos, para el tratamiento eficaz de esta infeccin; en la actualidad siguen siendo utilizadas por la medicina tradicional, con otras finalidades.

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During the Clinton Administration, the CIA began to fund the Gulen and his movement with millions derived from drug trafficking -- including the revenues amassed by Turkish underworld figures (bubas) from the flow of heroin from Afghanistan through northern Iran to Turkey.

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82 Bernal Díaz tells us that many of Cortés's soldiers had trouble descending the steep stairs of the Aztec temple in Tenochtitlan because "they were suffering from bubas or humors, and it hurt their muscles to walk down."

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86 It is also important to remember that bubas was sometimes used as a catch-all term to denote a wide collection of symptoms.

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