Syphilis
Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
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A Woman's Dilemma of Syphilis
Husbands would be doing things they shouldn't be doing. And their wife at home would end up with these funny symptoms. A strong case for that is a Mrs. Beaton who wrote her husband's household management. Al Capone certainly did have syphilis. We'll just never know for sure, I suppose. But what, me one person we do know in 1906, they develop a test. So you can say whether that would do it. Yes.
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