HISTORY, SEX AND SYPHILIS: Famous Syphilitics and Their Private Lives

The book is about the history of five hundred years old epidemic of syphilis which began after Christopher Columbus reached the New World. From the very beginning, this disease caused fear and consternation, due to its violent course, repulsive skin manifestations and high mortality.

Over the course of years, syphilis, became a disease of increasingly protracted, yet less dramatic course, although, as a result of an absence of effective treatment it remained incurable until the XX-th century...