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Pain and shame--the triumph of the pox.
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- Author(s): Hayden, Deborah
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New Statesman. 5/12/2003, Vol. 132 Issue 4637, p29. 2p. 1 Black and White Photograph.
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Discusses the threat of a syphilis epidemic as of May 12, 2003. Recorded history of the sexually transmitted disease that began with the invasion of the Kingdom of Naples in 1495 by French king Charles VIII; How the spirochete, Treponema pallidum was identified; Research done during the 19th and 20th centuries; Description of how syphilis manifests itself with pain, paresis, euphoria, and dementia; Treatment with mercury and with penicillin.
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