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Example sentences for: syphilis

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There is no arguing with taste, but even those who support the second tenet must admit that if researchers felt that way about cancer, syphilis, and AIDS, there would not be much point to research at all.
' The `inguinal lesion of primary syphilis' is usually a chancre (1605).
Lincoln once told his biographer and friend William Herndon that he had been infected with syphilis by a prostitute in Beardstown around 1835 [6].
Public Health Service from 1932 to 1972, that study left 412 black syphilitic men untreated--even after penicillin became widely available--in an attempt to determine the natural history of syphilis.
This year Clinton offered a formal apology to survivors of the Tuskegee medical study that denied syphilis treatment to 399 black men.