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by FreshStart 1056 days ago
That can't be true. That was before penicillin. Humanity would have died a syphilitic death.
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meheleventyone 1056 days ago
Umm, yes, pre effective treatments lots of people died of syphilis which of course wasn’t well understood and had lots of false cures. It still kills hundreds of thousands of people today!
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strix_varius 1056 days ago
1928 < 1970
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