Syphilis
Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
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The History of Syphilis
In London in the 19th century, like one in five people had syphilis. The chances are that there's a good proportion of the great and the good were amongst those. I can't think of many historical figures who haven't had someone at some point has gone syphilis - definitely syphilis. It just blows your mind, doesn't it? People could think that little of human life that they would think that was acceptable. Jesus Christ. There was poor people. Honestly, like just the absolute horrors of that is properly blown my mind.
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