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Example sentences for: syphilis

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Alfre Woodard displays "sinewy intelligence and grace" (John Leonard, New York ) and "unfailing dignity" (John O'Connor, the New York Times ) in the role of a black nurse who recruits black men for a government research project about syphilis.
Whether he acquired syphilis as an adult has been suggested and debated, but the evidence seems to be against it.
In his fine earlier book, Bad Blood , James Jones exposed one of American medicine's most shameful episodes: the Tuskegee experiment, in which doctors enlisted a group of black men with syphilis and, without their knowledge or consent, withheld treatment so as to observe the natural progress of the disease.
Scars of Venus A rash produced by secondary syphilis.
Measles, cholera, and syphilis soon riddled the population, which was cut in half over just a few decades.