From Acts of Parliament to unethical clinical studies to legendary symphonies (possibly) - syphilis has stained many different areas of history.
To find out what this disease is, what it does to the body and how treatments of it and the people who have it have changed, Kate spoke to Cat Irving, Human Remains Conservator for Surgeons’ Hall in Edinburgh.
*WARNING there are adult words and discussions of illness and death in this episode*
Produced by Charlotte Long and Sophie Gee. Mixed Thomas Ntinas.
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