Bubas bubalus is a species of beetle from the subfamily Scarabaeinae in the family Scarabaeidae. It is widespread in the Centre and North of Spain, the South of France, Portugal, Gibraltar, Monaco and Italy. The species may also be found in the Balearic Islands. The mild climate they like. Adults who are in manure, from October to July.
The father lion unexpectedly describes the symptoms of the then called " evil bubas ". We note that " many are full and crowded bubas, and wounded crowded hospitals, because the desventuradas often made a pure leprosy ". Then, referring to the prostitutes defined them as " foul-smelling and full of sores ".What are the bubas? Are described sores symptoms of syphilis? These are the questions that I will try to clear.As for the term, " 34 buba; Let's see what tells us one of the oldest dictionaries, of the Royal Academy's 1726: "Regularly used in plural. Also bad French well-known and so-called, contagious disease, and Gallic, because ( according to some ) the contraxeron the French when entering Italy with the eighth Carlos King, through the illicit trade that had with the women of that country; but others say suffered haverla the Spaniards in the discovery of the Indies, also on the occasion of the inhonesto treatment, as frequentaron with the women of new regions. The truth is to be extremely ancient disease, knowledge of which arrived to some provinces later to others, and that for indecent, none wants to confess haver been the first to feel it, and communicating it. Sometimes this voice has use in the singular, because the grain tip of matter, which goes on the face, is commonly called buba. "By the end of the 19th century the definition was technically more precise: "Tumors of the lymph glands in the groin, armpit and neck, and pustules, when these evils come from syphilitic general infection "
