Finally, we should stress that none of the techniques in this table protect against sexually transmitted infections, which you’ll need to watch out for. Syphilis, in particular, should be avoided: it has much more awful strains that died out before the modern era. When it first appeared, syphilis sufferers would be horrified as their entire bodies became covered in pustules, and that was before the flesh would fall from their faces.* Penicillin (Section 10.3.1) is an effective syphilis cure, though in our timeline we only found that out centuries after the “face-fall-off” variant had died out.
