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7. The FAMOUS and INFAMOUS - The Meter Stamp Society

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<strong>7.</strong>3.1 WRITERS AND POETS<br />

<strong>The</strong> growing list of distinguished syphiltics writers<br />

demonstrates the varied nationalities of its victims<br />

Oscar Wtlcie<br />

Aay Inare<br />

Karen Blixen<br />

Both Goncourt Brothers<br />

August Strindberg, playwright, novelist, <strong>and</strong> a doctois assistant<br />

early in his life, suffered from both schizophrenia <strong>and</strong> syphilis.<br />

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Arthur Schopennhaeur contracted syphilis while a student at Gottingen, then<br />

under-went lengthy mercury treatments, <strong>and</strong> died at age 72 from pneumonia.<br />

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Btrae, gunummet,<br />

Qt’thtbeietI, tothwerk<br />

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