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Pox, genius, madness, and the mysteries of syphilis, Deborah Hayden

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Pox, genius, madness, and the mysteries of syphilis, Deborah Hayden

Language

eng

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-366) and index

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illustrations

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Pox

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bibliography

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50725392

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Deborah Hayden

Sub title

genius, madness, and the mysteries of syphilis

Summary

Presents a tour of syphilis' grisly history. Presents case studies of various nineteenth- and twentieth-century luminaries rumored to have been syphilitic

Table Of Contents

pt. I. The disease : Christopher Columbus: the first European syphilitic? ; The revenge of the Americas ; A brief history of the spirochete ; Shedding light on the poison of the darkness ; From poisonous cures to wonder drug (almost) ; The physician's viewpoint ; Detective zeal: the fragile art of retrospective diagnosis -- pt. II. The nineteenth century : Ludwig van Beethoven, 1770-1827 ; Franz Schubert, 1797-1828 ; Robert Schumann, 1810-1856 ; Charles Baudelaire, 1821-1867 ; Mary Todd, 1818-1882, and Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865 ; Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1880 ; Guy de Maupassant, 1850-1893 ; Vincent van Gogh, 1853-1890 ; Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900 ; Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900 -- pt. III. The twentieth century : Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen), 1885-1962 ; James Joyce, 1882-1941 ; Adolf Hitler, 1889-1945 -- pt. IV. Pox gallery : A gallery of pox: the myth of syphilis

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