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
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
Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen), 1885-1962
A gallery of pox : the myth of syphilis.
