“If I were asked which is the most destructive of all diseases I should unhesitatingly reply, it is that which for some years has been raging with impunity … What contagion does thus invade the whole body, so much resist medical art, becomes inoculated so readily, and so cruelly tortures the patient ?”  Desiderius Erasmus, … Continue reading Syphilis – Its early history and Treatment until Penicillin and the Debate on its Origins