The Self-Fulfilling Cycle of Syphilis | Odd Salon EPIDEMIC 6/7
Channel: Odd Salon
Date: 2017-09-15

Just like the chocolate, sugar, and cigars that shared the same ships, the equally-addictive "revenge of the Americas" swept swiftly through Europe. Since then, periodic epidemics of this spirochete-spawned sickness have punctuated some of both the most cutthroat and creative periods of Western civilization. Coincidence? You be the judge.

Dan von Hoyel~ The Self-Fulfilling Cycle of Syphilis

Odd Salon EPIDEMIC: Tales of outbreaks & panic, death, plague doctors & the quest for cures.

Recorded live 9/5/2017 at Public Works, San Francisco, CA

Curated by Tre Balchowsky

Camera: John Adams
Edit/Post production: John Adams
Sound: Steen, Roy
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