Flutterby™! : Brief History of Syphilis

In honor of "Columbus Day", Journal of Medicine and Life: Brief History of Syphilis.

I went down this rabbit hole because I read something that suggested that Columbus's expedition brought syphilis to Europe, and thought "wait, what about Caligula?" Turns out that maybe I shouldn't take my history lessons from Bob Guccione.

Yeah, there's a lot of theories about the origin of syphilis, and there's evidence for pre-Columbus syphilis in the "Americas" and not a whole lot of evidence for it on Europe in that era, and Caligula likely had his own set of other problems.