The Blackbeard's Medications for Syphilis

The pirates demanded a chest of medicine from the shore. They had just spent a few months hanging around the west indies and central america, which were rife with yellow fever. It was more likely that the pirates were actually looking for treatments for the various venereal diseases they'd picked up in the caribbean ports. And we do have evidence that blackbeard's pirates used such a device. When maritime archaeologists investigated a shipwreck that was thought to be queen anne's revenge, they found an object designed specifically to inject mercury into a man's penoat is awf like old timy medicine,. made things like, i think i sprained my pink youlect come over here