Syphilis Research Paper

Welcome to syphilis everyone. Syphilis is sexually transmitted disease and the symptoms are severe. I was interested in this topic ever since I watched Gray anatomy and one of the characters got syphilis. I wanted to learn more about syphilis but I never have time to do research about it, and I thought this is my chance to do some research about it for this class. Magner, Lois N. said syphilis is known as the Great Mimic because it mimicked other diseases. When syphilis starts to spread, every countries began blaming each other for spreading syphilis. Italians call it French Disease by blaming the French, The French call it the Neapolitan Disease, and Russians call it the Polish Disease, and so on. In the past, syphilis was seen as punishment …show more content…
In the 19th century, people would fast forty days and took multiple baths with mercury to cure syphilis. Holy wood was also used to treatment syphilis. Today, we have advance technology to learn more about syphilis and we also have discovered treatment for syphilis as well. We know now that syphilis is sexually transmitted disease and Treponema pallidum was the bacteria responsible for syphilis rather than what people thought in the past. Syphilis is sexually transmitted disease and it is spread from person to person through sexual contact. Syphilis is very contagious and both men and women are impacted equally. If a pregnant woman has syphilis, she can pass the syphilis to her child, and that is why the mother has to be tested for syphilis to protect the child. The best way to protect oneself from this disease is to have sex with only one partner and take safe precaution. I am going to start with the primary stage of syphilis first. In the first of syphilis, the infect person may see many sore appearance on their body, and they are round