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[|Syphilis]

Fact: “The causative organism, Treponema pallidum, was first identified by Fritz Schaudinn and Erich Hoffmann, in 1905.”

MLA Citation: Barnett, Richard. “Syphilis.” The Lancet (British Edition), vol. 391, no. 10129, Elsevier Ltd, 2018, pp. 1471–1471, doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(18)30833-X.

DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)30833-X

Quote: "The dermatologist Erich Hoffmann and the zoologist Fritz Schaudinn identified a bacterium, Treponema pallidum, as the causative agent of syphilis in 1905, and a year later the bacteriologist August von Wassermann developed a diagnostic test for infection."

Phase Three

Barnett, Richard. “Syphilis.” The Lancet (British Edition), vol. 391, no. 10129, 2018, pp. 1471.

This journal article that I found from the PSTCC library is about the history of syphilis and how it spread to Europe. It discusses the treatments that can be used to treat syphilis, and when they were discovered, and talks about other diseases that are similar to this one. Syphilis is obviously a sexually transmitted disease, so it would be difficult to talk about it without the topic of sexuality. The two diversity perspectives I plan to use for this assignment are sexuality and gender, as I believe the two go hand-in-hand for this subject. In this article, it mentions that men who have sexual relations with other men are most likely to get syphilis, which goes along with what I have read in the Wikipedia article that I am using. Hook, Edward W. "Syphilis.” The Lancet (British Edition), vol. 389, no. 10078, 2017, pp. 1500-1557.

Weirdly enough, all the articles I have chosen from are titled “Syphilis”. I wanted to preface that in order to let it be known that it was not my intention to do that; it is just that the articles with the information I liked all had the same title. This article begins by describing what syphilis is, and how it is still affecting our world today. This article has a lot more information added to it than the other one and mentions how men who are sexual partners with men are more likely to get syphilis, and that pregnant women can get it and even send it on to their baby. The article gives information on what pregnant women can do in order to manage it and therapy they can partake in, however there is not much that women can do if they are allergic to penicillin.

Phase Four

Fact 1 Paragraph: "Secondary syphilis is the most commonly recognised clinical syndrome of syphilis … the rash of secondary syphilis is extraordinarily variable in appearance, can be discrete or widespread, and can involve mucous membranes as well as epithelised skin … When mucous membranes are involved, lesions can appear as highly infectious mucous patches and, in moist areas, might have an exuberant, verrucous appearance resembling warts and are referred to as condyloma lata".

Fact 1 Summary: Secondary syphilis is the stage that most often gets identified, especially in women. This stage is commonly identified in patients because of the rash and condylomata lata on their skin.

Fact 2 Paragraph: "From the mid-18th century, physicians and surgeons argued over whether syphilis and gonorrhoea were two different diseases, or two expressions of the same disease. In 1767 British surgeon John Hunter claimed to have proved, on the basis of an experiment in which he inoculated himself with gonorrhoea, that they were identical … Philippe Ricord repeated the experiment, not on himself but on 17 prisoners in Parisian jails, showing that gonorrhoea was a separate disease and not a symptom of syphilis. Ricord went on to describe three stages of syphilis: primary and secondary arose within weeks or months of infection, but tertiary syphilis might take a decade or more to develop after a period of latency".

Fact 2 Summary: Doctors were unaware of if the gonorrhoea and syphilis were the exact same disease and tested it out on people. Philippe Ricord stated that the two diseases were different and later proved the three stages of syphilis.