Pox
Found this quote online from somebody's web log :
"A zest in the ferreting out of the obscure,
a positively detective zeal in the running to earth
of this most subtle master of the dissembling art,
that is the foremost asset of the clinical syphilogist."
--- John H. Stokes, Modern Clinical Syphilogy
The blogger got the quote from a book that came out a few years ago called "POX - Genius, Madness, and Mysteries of Syphilis" by Deborah Hayden, which, among other things, devotes each chapter to a famous person who might have suffered from the disease. I contacted the author and she was pleased to hear from me, citing my grandfather as an inspiration.
"A zest in the ferreting out of the obscure,
a positively detective zeal in the running to earth
of this most subtle master of the dissembling art,
that is the foremost asset of the clinical syphilogist."
--- John H. Stokes, Modern Clinical Syphilogy
The blogger got the quote from a book that came out a few years ago called "POX - Genius, Madness, and Mysteries of Syphilis" by Deborah Hayden, which, among other things, devotes each chapter to a famous person who might have suffered from the disease. I contacted the author and she was pleased to hear from me, citing my grandfather as an inspiration.
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