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Example sentences for: syphilis

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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.
Measles, cholera, and syphilis soon riddled the population, which was cut in half over just a few decades.
Scars of Venus A rash produced by secondary syphilis.
Beethoven did not have congenital syphilis, a disabling disease that usually produces driveling idiots.
During the Ming era, China imported tobacco, pineapples, peanuts, and syphilis.