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Pox Genius, Madness, and the Mysteries of Syphilis

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ISBN-10: 0465028829

ISBN-13: 9780465028825

Edition: 2004

Authors: Deborah Hayden

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List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 12/25/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English

Cactus Flower: A Fantasy
Introduction
Acknowledgments
The Disease
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
The Nineteenth Century
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
Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900
The Twentieth Century
Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen), 1885-1962
James Joyce, 1882-1941
Adolf Hitler, 1889-1945
Pox Gallery
A Gallery of Pox: The Myth of Syphilis
Epilogue
Ten Clues to Secret Syphilis
Stokes's Case Study
Notes
Bibliography
Index