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Great Syphilitics In History!
When it comes to syphilis, everyone's happy to point fingers. French called it "the English disease", Italians called it the "Spanish disease", Russians called it the "Polish disease", and Arabs called it "the Christian's disease." Of course, plenty of Christians were still referring to it by it's original nickname, "the French disease."

Christopher Columbus

Meriwether Lewis

Abraham Lincoln

Mary Todd Lincoln

Charles Darwin

Paul Gauguin

Mozart

Edgar Allen Poe

Leo Tolstoy

Vincent Van Gogh

Oscar Wilde

Al Capone

Casanova

Adolf Hitler

Ivan the Terrible

Napoleon I

Stalin

Idi Amin

Mao Zedong

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