facial mutilations

[Blues]

Thanks Sam...

...I've learned something today. Syphilis causes the noseilis to falleth off and....


having syphilis must have sucked.

Blues

[Sam Flynn]

I've learned something today. Syphilis causes the noseilis to falleth off... having syphilis must have sucked.

... well, having your nose fall off would certainly have made it harder to blow

[protohistorian]

... well, having your nose fall off would certainly have made it harder to blow

Wasn't the victorian treatment for syphylis an injection of mercury up the urethra?

[Jon Guy]

scroll down brother I said that.

yeah, just worked out your pattern of posting a sentence at a time.

[Sam Flynn]

Wasn't the victorian treatment for syphylis an injection of mercury up the urethra?

... which acted as a primitive kind of Viagra when the weather got hot

Seriously - mercury and mercury compounds were applied in many different forms, sometimes as an ointment, sometimes by mouth. It was also injected "neat" into the urethra, as you say, but that wasn't the only means in which it was used.

Anyhow, we're about as far from facial mutilations as we can get... so back to the thread

[Jon Guy]

...in the 17th Century they thought they could cure syphylis by having sex with a healthy virgin.

[Sam Flynn]

...in the 17th Century they thought they could cure syphylis by having sex with a healthy virgin.

I'm glad we still don't believe that - they're so hard to find these days.

[Jon Guy]

they're so hard to find these days.

You shouldn`t be looking for them at your age, Sam

[Sam Flynn]

You shouldn`t be looking for them at your age, Sam

... just going by what I read in the papers, Jon - always a dangerous thing to do, I know.