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  • I bet you more people contract syphilis on Valentine's Day than on any other day of the year.†   (source)
  • "At least your syphilis isn't far advanced because you can feel testicular pain, huh?"†   (source)
  • No. Have you ever contracted syphilis or other spirochetal disease, or had a positive serological test for syphilis?†   (source)
  • But so it was, and among officers and soldiers alike, "till the fatal disorder [syphilis] seized them."†   (source)
  • Yet another, to sire Ivanito and leave his syphilis behind.†   (source)
  • With their raucous laughter, their unshavenness, their skin diseases, their syphilis, and their apparent delight in killing, they seemed as overpowering as the war itself.†   (source)
  • Don't you think it a little ironic that what follows sexual immorality is herpes, chlamydia, AIDS, syphilis, and gonorrhea?†   (source)
  • Cuts, scrapes, flu, colds, hypochondriacs, people with minor urinary tract infections they were positive were the first signs of syphilis.†   (source)
  • For girls, he knew, were what happened to even the cleverest, most diligent, most upright of scholars; the scholars kissed, got syphilis, and died without getting their degrees.†   (source)
  • The Hamiltons must have been either lucky or moral for the sections on gonorrhea and syphilis were never opened.†   (source)
  • Norfolk was found guilty of High Treason and should have been executed on 27 January, 1547, but on the night of 26 January, the King died of syphilis and wasn't able to sign the warrant.†   (source)
  • That's like saying you should go out and catch syphilis merely because it exists, Moira said.†   (source)
  • Patient has asymptomatic neuro syphilis but cancelled syphilis treatments, said she felt fine.†   (source)
  • Some, certainly, but inherited syphilis is much more likely.†   (source)
  • You can carry tuberculosis for many decades; you can carry syphilis for a lifetime.†   (source)
  • In Baltimore, syphilis spreads far more in the summer than in the winter.†   (source)
  • I read about the other stigmata of syphilis: mulberry molars, saber-shinned tibias, and deafness.†   (source)
  • Sarsaparilla for the nerves and any remaining traces of syphilis.†   (source)
  • So young, and already with scars of healed syphilis?†   (source)
  • For example, syphilis causes an inflammation of the aorta, a very specific, peculiar reaction.†   (source)
  • What caused Baltimore's syphilis problem to tip?†   (source)
  • When the clinics were cut back, syphilis was given a second life.†   (source)
  • Tuberculosis didn't cause aneurysms like the one that killed her, but syphilis did.†   (source)
  • Potterat, for his part, was focused on the people who were carrying syphilis.†   (source)
  • The breakdown in treatment made syphilis a much bigger issue than it had been before.†   (source)
  • Alarming, because rising syphilis announces the imminence of AIDS, which would grossly magnify the tb epidemic.†   (source)
  • Not to mention the exploding atomic power plants, along the San Andreas fault, nobody's fault, during the earthquakes, and the mutant strain of syphilis no mold could touch.†   (source)
  • In fact, emboldened by his experiment here, Ibsen returned to the notion several years later in Ghosts (1881), in which he has a young man losing his mind as the result of inherited tertiary syphilis.†   (source)
  • Her syphilis, it turns out, could have been a factor as well—syphilis can suppress the immune system and allow cancer to spread faster than normal.†   (source)
  • Need I remind you that this was the age of the R-strain syphilis and also of the infamous AIDS epidemic, which, once they spread to the population at large, eliminated many young sexually active people from the reproductive pool?†   (source)
  • And they did so on the same campus—and at the very same time—that state officials were conducting the infamous Tuskegee syphilis studies.†   (source)
  • Syphilis, of course, was prima facie evidence of sex beyond the bounds of marriage, of moral corruption (you could only get it, supposedly, by visiting prostitutes), and therefore taboo.†   (source)
  • As I suggested earlier, syphilis and its various brethren were off-limits for most of the nineteenth century, so any references needed to be in code, as here.†   (source)
  • The researchers chose black subjects because they, like many whites at the time, believed black people were "a notoriously syphilis-soaked race."†   (source)
  • I told her that doctors used to use the word idiocy to refer to mental retardation, and to the brain damage that accompanied hereditary syphilis.†   (source)
  • In that same period of the late nineteenth century, syphilis and gonorrhea reached near-epidemic proportions, yet except for Henrik Ibsen and some of the later naturalists, venereal diseases were hardly on the literary map.†   (source)
  • But the lump tested negative for syphilis, so he told Henrietta she'd better go to the Johns Hopkins gynecology clinic.†   (source)
  • Me and all my brothers got a touch of nerve deafness on account of our mother and father being cousins and having the syphilis.†   (source)
  • Rumors started circulating that the doctors had actually injected the men with syphilis in order to study them.†   (source)
  • In the ten-page chapter that followed, Gold quoted extensively from her medical records: the blood spotting her underwear, the syphilis, her rapid decline.†   (source)
  • They recruited hundreds of African-American men with syphilis, then watched them die slow, painful, and preventable deaths, even after they realized penicillin could cure them.†   (source)
  • She'd heard the stories about Hopkins snatching black people for research, and she'd read an article in Jet about the Tuskegee study that suggested doctors might have actually injected those men with syphilis in order to study them.†   (source)
  • For an overview of the Tuskegee study aimed at the general public, see Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, by James H. Jones; see also "Final Report of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Legacy Committee," Vanessa Northington Gamble, chair (May 20, 1996).†   (source)
  • The photo was attached to the top corner of Elsie's autopsy report, which Lurz and I began reading, saying occasional phrases out loud: "diagnosis of idiocy" … "directly connected with syphilis" … "self-induced vomiting by thrusting fingers down her throat for six months prior to death."†   (source)
  • She'd read in the paper about the syphilis study at Tuskegee, which had just been stopped by the government after forty years, and now here was Gardenia's brother-in-law, saying Hopkins had part of Henrietta alive and scientists everywhere were doing research on her and the family had no idea.†   (source)
  • I told him about the Tuskegee syphilis study like I was giving an oral report in history class: It started in the thirties, when U.S. Department of Public Health researchers at the Tuskegee Institute decided to study how syphilis killed, from infection to death.†   (source)
  • And although a few of them were location specific, syphilis again for example, none of those were the underside of the left wrist.†   (source)
  • Look, you're married to a woman and she doesn't have AIDS, chlamydia, syphilis, gonorrhea, or any of the rest of them.†   (source)
  • Her sex, too, was infected with syphilis and the diseases Hugo brought back from Morocco and other women.†   (source)
  • Or in the case of syphilis, sexual.†   (source)
  • It was known, for instance, that syphilis had been a virulent disease four hundred years before, producing huge festering sores all over the body, often killing in weeks.†   (source)
  • He'd been spared congenital syphilis.†   (source)
  • But then he realized that his fear was absurd because congenital syphilis had to come through the placenta to him, it had to come from his mother.†   (source)
  • Crack is known to cause a dramatic increase in the kind of risky sexual behavior that leads to the spread of things like HIV and syphilis.†   (source)
  • One day, at the bedside of a patient with syphilis, the professor picked on me to demonstrate visceral pain.†   (source)
  • ONE The Three Rules of Epidemics In the mid-1990s, the city of Baltimore was attacked by an epidemic of syphilis.†   (source)
  • Venereum insontium—"innocently acquired" syphilis—was still in the textbooks, though Ghosh didn't believe in such a thing.†   (source)
  • If I remember correctly, I got Harris to fund a project that was your idea: a citywide campaign against gonorrhea and syphilis.†   (source)
  • For years syphilis had been confined to a specific region of Baltimore, within highly confined sociosexual networks.†   (source)
  • If you look at Baltimore's syphilis rates on a graph, the line runs straight for years and then, when it hits 1995, rises almost at a right angle.†   (source)
  • Other than congenital syphilis where the mother infected the unborn child, he believed that all syphilis was sexually acquired.†   (source)
  • His father's stamping, crashing gait, always worse at night when he no longer could see where his feet were planted—that was from syphilis of the spinal cord, or tabes dorsalis.†   (source)
  • In Baltimore, when the city's public clinics suffered cutbacks, the nature of the syphilis affecting the city's poor neighborhoods changed.†   (source)
  • It was against her conscience to hold back money when money allowed her to cure trachoma and to prevent blindness, or give penicillin and cure syphilis—the list was endless.†   (source)
  • Crack, the CDC said, was the little push that the syphilis problem needed to turn into a raging epidemic.†   (source)
  • The housing dislocation process served to move these people to other parts of Baltimore, and they took their syphilis and other behaviors with them.†   (source)
  • The meandering conversation, the boastful tales at the dinner table, the delusions of grandeur—that was syphilis of the brain, not just the spinal cord.†   (source)
  • But the consequences of such tolerance were evident to her: tubal and ovarian abscesses, infertility from gonorrhea, stillbirths, and babies with congenital syphilis.†   (source)
  • What they were saying is that there was a subtle increase in the severity of the crack problem in the mid-1990s, and that change was enough to set off the syphilis epidemic.†   (source)
  • The patient had advanced syphilis.†   (source)
  • But with the cutbacks, syphilis increasingly became a chronic disease, and the disease's carriers had three or four or five times longer to pass on their infection.†   (source)
  • In the Piazza he had once pointed out the stigmata of congenital syphilis in a listless boy who was squatting on the sidewalk: "Saddle nose, cloudy eyes, peg-shaped incisor teeth …."†   (source)
  • All it took, he said, was the demolition of a handful of housing projects and the abandonment of homes in key downtown neighborhoods to send syphilis over the top.†   (source)
  • Anyway, as students we had to squeeze the testes to check for intact visceral pain, because diseases like syphilis can cause the loss of visceral pain sensations.†   (source)
  • Syphilis, he was saying, was a disease carried by a certain kind of person in Baltimore — a very poor, probably drug-using, sexually active individual.†   (source)
  • She might have recovered from her TB, but she probably never knew she had syphilis until that aneurysm blossomed and began eroding painfully through the breastbone when she was at the sanatorium.†   (source)
  • Every time someone in Baltimore comes to a public clinic for treatment of syphilis or gonorrhea, John Zenilman plugs his or her address into his computer, so that the case shows up as a little black star on a map of the city.†   (source)
  • The Centers for Disease Control's explanation for the Baltimore syphilis epidemic can be found in the Mortality and Morbidity Weekly ENDNOTES Report, "Outbreak of Primary and Secondary Syphilis — Baltimore City, Maryland.†   (source)
  • I had a vision of the Middle Passage, of blacks shuffling down the gangplank, shackles clinking while a hundred pairs of eyes probed their flanks, their biceps, and studied the exposed flesh for yaws, which was the Old World syphilis.†   (source)
  • You can prevent crimes just by scrubbing off graffiti and arresting fare-beaters: crime epidemics have Tipping Points every bit as simple and straightforward as syphilis in Baltimore or a fashion trend like Hush Puppies.†   (source)
  • His culprits are the physical changes in those years affecting East and West Baltimore, the heavily depressed neighborhoods on either side of Baltimore's downtown, where the syphilis problem was centered.†   (source)
  • The seasonal effect on the number of cases is so strong that it is not hard to imagine that a long, hard winter in Baltimore could be enough to slow or lessen substantially — at least for the season — the growth of the syphilis epidemic.†   (source)
  • If that kind of person was suddenly transported from his or her old neighborhood to a new one — to a new part of town, where syphilis had never been a problem before — the disease would have an opportunity to tip.†   (source)
  • When we say that a handful of East Village kids started the Hush Puppies epidemic, or that the scattering of the residents of a few housing projects was sufficient to start Baltimore's syphilis epidemic, what we are really saying is that in a given process or system some people matter more than others.†   (source)
  • I was wondering whether Rinaldi had the syphilis.†   (source)
  • "7 And, "I got it from a man in the know--she has syphilis, you know--she was in that Warner picture.†   (source)
  • He thinks too he has syphilis.†   (source)
  • If he could have infected the whole lot of them with leprosy or syphilis, how gladly he would have done so!†   (source)
  • A colleague working in the laboratory to which Dr Sasaki had been walking was dead; Dr Sasaki's patient, whom he had just left and who a few moments before had been dreadfully afraid of Syphilis, was also dead.†   (source)
  • Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat; the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen to-morrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind.†   (source)
  • "Now they've got syphilis."†   (source)
  • Among his many other complaints, he had syphilis, which he had apparently caught from transfusions in one of his hospital stays; it was cured eventually.†   (source)
  • There is a poor German boy with a foot that will not heal and secondary syphilis, who comes here for treatment.†   (source)
  • Or gave you the syphilis like Rinaldi.†   (source)
  • I did not think he had syphilis.†   (source)
  • Has he the syphilis?†   (source)
  • Half appreciating his feeling, Franz travelled quickly over an opinion: "It was neuro-syphilis.†   (source)
  • He had been seeking a precipitation test for the diagnosis of syphilis which should be quicker and simpler than the Wassermann.†   (source)
  • He had heard it said that "conditions" in the County Jail and the Zenith City Prison were not very "scientific;" he had, with indignation at the criticism of Zenith, skimmed through a report in which the notorious pessimist Seneca Doane, the radical lawyer, asserted that to throw boys and young girls into a bull-pen crammed with men suffering from syphilis, delirium tremens, and insanity was not the perfect way of educating them.†   (source)
  • But Holabird had run wild, the newspapers had reported wonders, and in on Martin poured demands that he send out phage; inquiries as to whether he did not have a phage for tuberculosis, for syphilis; offers that he take charge of this epidemic and that.†   (source)
  • Pickerbaugh apparently believed that this research would take six weeks; Martin had hoped to do it in two years; and with the present interruptions it would require two hundred, by which time the Pickerbaughs would have eradicated syphilis and made the test useless.†   (source)
  • Terry meditated, " 'Member there was one of these Nobel-prize winners, Slim, one of these plumb fanatics that instead of blowing in the prize spent the whole thing on chimps and other apes, and he got together with another of those whiskery old birds, and they ducked up alleys and kept the anti-viv folks from prosecuting them, and settled the problem of the transfer of syphilis to lower animals?†   (source)
  • The vice crusaders, if they have accomplished nothing else, have at least forced the newspapers to use the honest terms, /syphilis/, /prostitute/, /brothel/ and /venereal disease/, albeit somewhat gingerly.†   (source)
  • Another reported that "at a recent conference of the Scripps Northwest League editors" it was decided that "the use of such terms as /gonorrhea/, /syphilis/, and even /venereal diseases/ would not add to the tone of the papers, and that the term /vice diseases/ can be readily substituted.†   (source)
  • The Department of Health of New York City, in April, 1914, announced that its efforts to diminish venereal disease were much handicapped because "in most newspaper offices the words /syphilis/ and /gonorrhea/ are still tabooed, and without the use of these terms it is almost impossible to correctly state the problem."†   (source)
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