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Syphilis collection

The syphilis collection ranges from the earliest syphilis incunabula produced at the end of the fifteenth century, to dissertations and debates on whether syphilis and gonorrhoea were separate diseases at the end of the 18th century.

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Detail showing Job suffering from 'syphilis' in Hunter Aw.3.5

Items of interest

Click here to view a gallery of some items of interest from the collection.

Quite the swelling on this fellow

About the collection

  • The Wellcome Trust Syphilis Project

Blogs and articles on the collection:-

  • Syphilis – what’s in a name?
  • “Sweet bit of binding” – Cataloguing Puzzles
  • Unexpected Notes on Syphilis
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