Most famous victims of VD
A great number of famous and talented men have had one sort of venereal illness or another.
Here are one or two
of them Abraham, David and Job, Caesar, Herod Tiberius, Charlemagne, Charles V and VIII
of France, John of
Gaunt, Popes Alexander VI, Julius II and Leo X, Henry VIII, Erasmus, Albrecht Durer,
Thomas Wolsey, Ivan
the Terrible, Benvenuto Cellini, Richelieu John Aubrey, Casanova, Boswell, Goethe,
Schopenhauer, Keats,
Schubert, Nietzsche, Mussolini, Hitler, Gauguin, Strindberg, Oscar Wilde, etc., etc. (See T.
Rosebury, "Microbes
and Morals"). This list could easily be extended.
From The Illustrated Book of Sexual Records. © 1974, 1982, 1997-2001 G.L. Simons Back to Home Page
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