Drysdale's book offers a passionate indictment of the widespread use of mercury as a treatment for syphilis and other diseases in the nineteenth century. Drawin

Excerpt from On the Treatment of Syphilis and Other Diseases Without Mercury: Being a Collection of Evidence to Prove That Mercury Is a Cause of Disease, Not a

Syphilis, a sexually transmitted disease was first described in 15th century, is caused by Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum and occurs worldwide. This book is