xx, 379 p. : 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-366) and index

Machine generated contents note: Cactus Flower: A Fantasy -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments --PART I: THE DISEASE -- 1 Christopher Columbus: The First European Syphilitic? -- 2 The Revenge of the Americas -- 3 A Brief History of the Spirochete -- 4 Shedding Light on the Poison of the Darkness -- 5 From Poisonous Cures to Wonder Drug (Almost) -- 6 The Physician's Viewpoint -- 7 Detective Zeal: The Fragile Art of Retrospective Diagnosis --PART II: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY -- 8 Ludwig van Beethoven, 1770-1827 -- 9 Franz Schubert, 1797-1828 -- 10 Robert Schumann, 1810-1856 -- 11 Charles Baudelaire, 1821-1867 -- 12 Mary Todd, 1818-1882, and Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865 --13 Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1880 -- 14 Guy de Maupassant, 1850-1893 -- 15 Vincent van Gogh, 1853-1890 -- 16 Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900 -- 17 Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900 --PART III: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY -- 18 Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen), 1885-1962 -- 19 James Joyce, 1882-1941 -- 20 Adolf Hitler, 1889-1945 --PART IV: POX GALLERY -- 21 A Gallery of Pox: The Myth of Syphilis -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: Ten Clues to Secret Syphilis -- Appendix B: Stokes' Case Study -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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