Siddhartha Mukherjee Quotes

In Georgian England, Sweeps And Climbing-boys Were Regarded As General Cesspools Of Disease - Dirty, Consumptive, Syphilitic, Pox-ridden - And A "ragged, Ill-looking Sore," Easily Attributed To Some Sexually Transmitted Illness, Was Usually Treated With A Toxic Mercury-based Chemical And Otherwise Shrugged Off. ("Syphilis," As The Saying Ran, "was One Night With Venus, Followed By A Thousand Nights With Mercury.")

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