Both Uses of

syphilis
in
Hiroshima, by John Hersey

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.†
Chpt 1 *

syphilis = a sexually transmitted disease that, if treated early, can be completely cured with antibiotics

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.†
Chpt 5