#syphilis
My thoughts on “The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper,” in which I include the sentence “meanwhile, men with syphilis carried on syphilis-ing.” Click here to read.
Agata, acrylic on linen, 2020
Source image: “Illustration of Agata Lapieruz who lost her nose, upper lip, and bottom half of eyelids after being afflicted by ‘reddish patches covered with tiny blisters that soon dry up and flake off’. Rapidly changing form and location, the sores eventually formed crusts and attacked the soft flesh of the face.”
From the National Library of Medicine archives. Labeled as syphilis.
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Earrings, acrylic on canvas, 2019
“Among chronic diseases, Syphilis is the one of greatest frequency and highest importance. Few physicians are incompetent to treat the disease successfully when its nature is apparent, but there are many who are unfamiliar with its most characteristic forms. The surest diagnosis is that which is based solely unpon observation; and it can be safely asserted that of the numerous and varied symptoms of Syphilis, there are none which point so unerringly to a specific origin as do its cutaneous lesions.” - George Henry Fox, Photographic Illustrations of Cutaneous Syphilis.1881.
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821021, acrylic on canvas, 69 x 49.5cm
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I have not updated this blog in a long, long time. I’m a little uninspired for new medical history content, but I have been using my old content to paint. For now I’m going to be posting my artwork alongside the old sources I use to make it. One day I’ll run out of content and be forced to start finding more.
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All I know is that syphilus was created because Christopher Columbus was fucking llamas…fuckboy Chris
- Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia)
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Al Capone
- King Fredrick “The Great” of Prussia
- King George I of Great Britain
- Adolf Hitler
- Czar Ivan “The Terrible”
- Julius Caesar
- John Milton
- Benito Mussolini
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Voltaire
- Oscar Wilde
*While it is impossible to retrospectively diagnose with complete accuracy, there is evidence that syphilis affected everyone on this list.
Source: 5 People Who Died During Sex and 100 Other Terribly Tasteless Lists
In this engraving from about 1660, a syphilis sufferer gets fumigated in a special oven. The caption on the oven translates as “For one pleasure a thousand pains."
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I need some really difficult questions for the Sexually Transmitted Infection jeopardy game I’m working on. The purpose of this activity is to provide a fun and quick way for them to get all the information they need so it also needs to be important questions.
Any ideas?
The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Black Male was a clinical study conducted between 1932 and 1972 by the U.S. Public Health Service. The purpose of this study was to observe the natural history of untreated syphilis; the poor Black men in the study were told they were receiving free health care from the United States government, which was a lie.
The study recruited 600 black men, of which 399 were diagnosed with syphilis. The researchers never obtained informed consent from the men and never told the men with syphilis that they were not being treated but were simply being watched until they died and their bodies examined for ravages of the disease.
Several men died, 40 wives contracted the disease, and 19 children were born with congenital syphilis.
On May 16, 1997, President Bill Clinton formally apologized on behalf of the United States to victims of the experiment.
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