one sign of the disease is that some patients noses fall off their freaking noses would fall off of their face you understand your nose i don't know why it's involving your nose when it's like on your lower region isn't that weird or is that just me okay so your nose falls off bye so let's say your nose fell off well people would assume that you were some kind of hussy because you know you probably obviously had syphilis you little nasty and freak nasty this is a side note you little hussy the nose thing is what led to the plastic surgery industry taking off because people really want to keep their noses i mean wouldn't you want to keep your nose it's very essential to your profile look profile nose you need it anyways back to syphilis so eventually it would lead to organ failure and when that happens babe you're on alive on a live you don't keep living it's just game over for you you get it it's awful so with all this being said you could probably see why people wanted to study it and find a cure right very dramatic way to go anywho now before you go and get too freaked out and take a vow of celibacy keep in mind there is a cure now and like i said earlier it's penicillin not a big deal oh unless you're allergic to penicillin sorry penicillin wouldn't become the common treatment for syphilis till world war ii now before it existed you had to just be terrified and lose your nose at this point it's the NUMBER_TOKENs okay now there had already been a lot of attempts to treat syphilis but they were just as dangerous and honestly it just took a really long time it wasn't successful is what i'm getting at and for months doctors would inject you with things we know are toxic now like mercury and arsenic they were like poisoning people mercury and arsenic if you don't know not great options to be taking okay it actually could lead to you dying or the patient's dying so it's not a good treatment for syphilis because you're gonna probably die from syphilis or you're gonna die from the treatment great which option do you want so science wanted something better and obviously more effective right and in order to do that testing had to be done on humans and up until then most testing had been done on white people and very little testing had been done on the black population in america remember they believed that disease would affect them differently so they believe the same thing with syphilis okay see a lot of doctors they had this sick idea that being white meant that you were healthy right you're white you're healthy you're great cool and every other race they weren't good they were not healthy and they needed help so this led them to believing that african americans were more prone to diseases okay so this is gonna sound really stupid but they believed the medical people the people that are smart they believed that they would essentially die out or go extinct because they were weaker than the whites yeah i know it sounds stupid but before that happened they wanted to study them like they were little lab rats or something and as you might expect this goes south really quick as doctors watched people die because they thought nobody would care here's a word from our sponsor hi french just popping in here really
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