Title:	Pox Genius, Madness, and the Mysteries of Syphilis
	Author:	Hayden
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How a transmittable little bacterium with a twisting propellant tail...deeply affected...mankind's perception of itself. Anthony Day, Los Angeles Times. From Beethoven to Oscar Wilde, from Van Gogh to Hitler, Deborah Hayden throws new light on the effects of syphilis on the lives and works of seminal figures from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries.Writing with remarkable insight and narrative flair, Hayden argues that biographers and historians have vastly underestimated the influence ...

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