Pox Genius, Madness, And The Mysteries Of Syphilis

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ISBN: 9780465028825 | 0465028829
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Copyright: 12/25/2003

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"How a transmittable little bacterium with a twisting propellant tail...deeply affected...mankind's perception of itself."Anthony Day, Los Angeles Times

Deborah Hayden, an independent scholar and marketing executive, has lectured on syphilis and creativity, most recently at UCSF Medical School, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and the Bay Area History of Medicine Society. She lives in Mill Valley, California.

Cactus Flower: A Fantasy	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xix
The Disease
Christopher Columbus: The First European Syphilitic?	p. 3
The Revenge of the Americas	p. 12
A Brief History of the Spirochete	p. 22
Shedding Light on the Poison of the Darkness	p. 28
From Poisonous Cures to Wonder Drug (Almost)	p. 43
The Physician's Viewpoint	p. 51
Detective Zeal: The Fragile Art of Retrospective Diagnosis	p. 60
The Nineteenth Century
Ludwig van Beethoven, 1770-1827	p. 71
Franz Schubert, 1797-1828	p. 89
Robert Schumann, 1810-1856	p. 97
Charles Baudelaire, 1821-1867	p. 112
Mary Todd, 1818-1882, and Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865	p. 120
Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1880	p. 133
Guy de Maupassant, 1850-1893	p. 142
Vincent van Gogh, 1853-1890	p. 152
Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900	p. 172
Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900	p. 200
The Twentieth Century
Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen), 1885-1962	p. 229
James Joyce, 1882-1941	p. 239
Adolf Hitler, 1889-1945	p. 251
Pox Gallery
A Gallery of Pox: The Myth of Syphilis	p. 305
Epilogue	p. 317
Ten Clues to Secret Syphilis	p. 319
Stokes's Case Study	p. 321
Notes	p. 323
Bibliography	p. 353
Index	p. 367
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