The Things People Did To Fight Syphilis Were Utterly Horrifying
Syphilis, today, is minor and treatable. In the past, though, it was an incurable diseases that caused insanity, rotting flesh, and death. It’s understandable that nations took drastic measures to try to stop it — but their efforts resulted in a 400-year reign of terror. Syphilis hit Europe at the end of the 1400s. In…