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Lesley O dear. Someone has not been looking at medical historians' work on the big picture of general paralysis of the insane (neurosyphilis) I fear. This sounds dangerously romanticised. Syphilis was rife for centuries. Some people during that time were geniuses. A massively greater proportion were not.


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