The first description of the disease in the medical literature appeared in the 1553 book "De Tumoribus praeter Naturam" by the Sicilian anatomist and physician Giovanni Filippo Ingrassia, where he referred to it as "rossalia". He also made a point to distinguish that this presentation had different characteristics to measles. It was redescribed by Johann Weyer during an epidemic in lower Germany between 1564 and 1565; he referred to it as "scalatina anginosa". The first unequivocal description of scarlet fever appeared in a book by Joannes Coyttarus of Poitiers, "De febre purpura epidemiale et contagiosa libri duo", which was published in 1578 in Paris. Daniel Sennert of Wittenberg described the classical 'scarlatinal desquamation' in 1572 and was also the first to describe the early arthritis, scarlatinal dropsy, and ascites associated with the disease.