Treatments
The main treatment for syphilis that is also used for many other diseases in the past.
What is Mercury?
This type of disease is transmitted through intercourse during outbreaks.
What is an STI?
These are the first two stages of syphilis.
What is primary and secondary?
This was the name of the main character in a Latin poem about the disease.
Syphilis (supposedly the first case of syphilis the disease)
A side effect of tertiary syphilis.
What is Blindness, Paralysis, Dementia, Tumors?
The main treatment for syphilis currently.
What is Penicillin?
This was what the Italians called syphilis in 1494.
What is the French Disease?
The first obvious sign of syphilis after three weeks.
What are small painless red sores on the place the bacteria entered your body?
This Greek god was said to have given the first person to have syphilis the disease.
Who was Apollo?
Syphilis causes this somewhat rare condition.
What is Meningitis?
A common scam that people tried to pull on patients during an outbreak in 1899.
What are packaged blood cures sent by the newspaper?
This group of people was said to be responsible for the syphilis outbreaks in the 20th century.
Who are women?
A whole body rash.
What is the second sign of syphilis?
Throughout history, this was a way to make the number of syphilis victims go down without a physical remedy.
What is publicity and spreading awareness?
An important side effect if syphilis goes untreated.
What is death?
Military men often slit these off of prostitutes (part of the body).
What are ears and/or noses?
This location had an outbreak happen in 2017.
What is Milwaukee?
Another secondary symptom of syphilis that appears on the mouth.
What are wart-like sores?
Turkey called syphilis this.
What is The Christian/Catholic Disease?
An important side effect of congenital syphilis. (congenital: When a child is born from a parent who was pregnant while having syphilis)
What are mental delays?
This was used to hide the facial side effects of syphilis.
What is plastic surgery?
This number of people was affected during an outbreak in Los Angeles County in 2015.
What are approximately 1.5 million people?
This happens when you are in the third stage of syphilis (latent stage).
What are no symptoms?
This group of people lost their jobs and/or religion if they were found to have syphilis.
Who are priests?
The strangest side effect of tertiary syphilis.
What is hearing loss?