Skull with late-stage syphilis

ID: 30 ~ Source: Photo courtsey of National Museum of Health and Medicine

This file appears in: Syphilis and Fevers: Medicine at English Camp

Though mercury treatments for syphilis still brought death to those inflicted, it was better than leaving the infection to continue to a stage like this.

This file appears in: Syphilis and Fevers: Medicine at English Camp

Syphilis and Fevers: Medicine at English Camp – The Surgeons of English Camp

By Whitney Wyngaert

Medicine prior to the modern era was precarious. Infectious diseases were poorly understood, and doctors rarely washed before an operation. Surgeons did not widely use antiseptics until the 1860s. The only "modern" medical practice at…