HLTB21H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Dark Field Microscopy, Antibody, Human Sexual Activity
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Men were not told they had syphilis they were told they had bad blood . The tuskegee study was designed to document the natural history of syphilis. But it came to symbolize racism in medicine, ethical misconduct in medical research, paternalism by physicians, and government abuse of society"s most vulnerable the poor and uneducated. In 1996 the 500th anniversary for the arrival of syphilis in england was celebrated . It was said that this disease was brought to naples by the spanish troops. The french called the pox the disease of naples , italians the french disease . Victims of syphilis suffered with fevers, open sores, scars, pains in the joints, and gruesome deaths. It was a new disease introduced into a na ve population and that the increased rate of transmission by sexual means transformed what once had been a milder disease into a highly virulent one.
