Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease that can cause insanity, deformity and death. In Fantastic Worlds, it is suggested that the dread play has some parallel to the disease, as well as cholera.
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| - Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease that can cause insanity, deformity and death. In Fantastic Worlds, it is suggested that the dread play has some parallel to the disease, as well as cholera.
- Syphilis first reared it's ugly red splotched head sometime during the reign of Charlemagne, when the notion of a French national identity was disturbing the rest of the world. Invented by Francois Syphilitic, it was first caught off him by his sister and then his twenty cousins (male and female).
- Syphilis is almost always transmitted through sexual contact with an infected person, who is almost always displaying the sores on the genitals typical of the disease. The use of condoms is usually effective in preventing the transmission of the disease between partners. In females, the sores are often inside the vagina and therefore more difficult to detect. In males, the sores most often appear on the penis. If the disease is allowed to progress, it will usually start attacking the nerves and brain, causing nerve damage, personality change and eventually dementia and death.
- Syphilis is a sexually-transmitted disease caused by a bacterium known as a spirochite. The bacterium resides in both the spinal fluid of its human host and if left untreated for long enough, will erode the tissues of the brain, causing insanity and death. Along the way, it produces pain in various parts of the body, notably including the genitals and eyes. The bacterium can be killed with contemporary antibiotic agents such as penicillin, but such techniques were unknown during the Baroque Era. Historically accurate methods of combatting syphilis included the ingestion of mercury, taken either orally or rubbed in to the skin, leading to the aphorism "A night with Venus, a lifetime with Mercury."
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| - Syphilis is almost always transmitted through sexual contact with an infected person, who is almost always displaying the sores on the genitals typical of the disease. The use of condoms is usually effective in preventing the transmission of the disease between partners. In females, the sores are often inside the vagina and therefore more difficult to detect. In males, the sores most often appear on the penis. The sores will spontaneously heal in a few weeks, but the bacteria will continue to grow within the body, forming granulomas which protect the bacteria from the body's immune system. In addition, syphilis can go through long periods of latency between outbreaks where, although the disease can be treated and tested for, it is not contagious and shows no symptoms. If the disease is allowed to progress, it will usually start attacking the nerves and brain, causing nerve damage, personality change and eventually dementia and death. Prior to the beginning of the 20th century, there was no effective treatment for the disease. In the 20th century, the development of arsenic-based drugs did allow the disease to be treated if it were caught before it caused nerve damage. However, such drugs were not effective against late stage syphilis. However, penicillin turned out to be an effective treatment for the disease even in its late stages, and remains the preferred treatment to this day, with almost all strains of the disease being susceptible to this antibiotic. Patients with syphilis are usually required to tell the treating physician the names of their sexual contacts so that they can be advised by health departments to get treated for the disease.
- Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease that can cause insanity, deformity and death. In Fantastic Worlds, it is suggested that the dread play has some parallel to the disease, as well as cholera.
- Syphilis is a sexually-transmitted disease caused by a bacterium known as a spirochite. The bacterium resides in both the spinal fluid of its human host and if left untreated for long enough, will erode the tissues of the brain, causing insanity and death. Along the way, it produces pain in various parts of the body, notably including the genitals and eyes. The bacterium can be killed with contemporary antibiotic agents such as penicillin, but such techniques were unknown during the Baroque Era. Historically accurate methods of combatting syphilis included the ingestion of mercury, taken either orally or rubbed in to the skin, leading to the aphorism "A night with Venus, a lifetime with Mercury." The prevalence of the disease is a recurrent topic in the Baroque Cycle, paralleling its dreary recurrence in real-life history. In the Cycle as in history, it is frequently referred to as the "French Pox." Daniel Waterhouse is told by James II, then the Duke of York, that he suffers from syphilis and has transmitted the disease to his wife and mistress, and through them, to his children (Read more here ). This plants a seed in Daniel's mind that James is both morally and mentally inferior to the task of serving as King and helps motivate Daniel in instigating James' overthrow in the Glorious Revolution. Jack Shaftoe contracts syphilis after siring his two sons, and seeks treatment from a disreputable French physician while he is dangerously drunk. The physician botches the job, slicing off a portion of Jack's penis with a hot poker, resulting in the vagabond's nickname "Half-Cocked Jack," and producing an inability to perform sexually in the usual fashion.
- Syphilis first reared it's ugly red splotched head sometime during the reign of Charlemagne, when the notion of a French national identity was disturbing the rest of the world. Invented by Francois Syphilitic, it was first caught off him by his sister and then his twenty cousins (male and female).
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