Pox

Genius, Madness, And The Mysteries Of Syphilis

By: Deborah Hayden

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Paperback | 25 December 2003 | Edition Number 1

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Was Beethoven experiencing syphilitic euphoria when he composed "Ode to Joy"? Did van Gogh paint "Crows Over the Wheatfield" in a fit of diseased madness right before he shot himself? Was syphilis a stowaway on Columbus's return voyage to Europe? The answers to these provocative questions are likely "yes," claims Deborah Hayden in this riveting investigation of the effects of the "Pox" on the lives and works of world figures from the fifteenth through the twentieth centuries. Writing with remarkable insight and narrative flair, Hayden argues that biographers and historians have vastly underestimated the influence of what Thomas Mann called "this exhilarating yet wasting disease." Shrouded in secrecy, syphilis was accompanied by wild euphoria and suicidal depression, megalomania and paranoia, profoundly affecting sufferers' worldview, their sexual behavior and personality, and, of course, their art. Deeply informed and courageously argued, Pox has already been heralded as a major contribution to our understanding of genius, madness, and creativity.

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"Riveting.... "Pox will be of interest to anyone who loves a good mystery story."

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Cactus Flower: A Fantasy	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xix
The Disease
Christopher Columbus: The First European Syphilitic?	p. 3
The Revenge of the Americas	p. 12
A Brief History of the Spirochete	p. 22
Shedding Light on the Poison of the Darkness	p. 28
From Poisonous Cures to Wonder Drug (Almost)	p. 43
The Physician's Viewpoint	p. 51
Detective Zeal: The Fragile Art of Retrospective Diagnosis	p. 60
The Nineteenth Century
Ludwig van Beethoven, 1770-1827	p. 71
Franz Schubert, 1797-1828	p. 89
Robert Schumann, 1810-1856	p. 97
Charles Baudelaire, 1821-1867	p. 112
Mary Todd, 1818-1882, and Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865	p. 120
Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1880	p. 133
Guy de Maupassant, 1850-1893	p. 142
Vincent van Gogh, 1853-1890	p. 152
Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900	p. 172
Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900	p. 200
The Twentieth Century
Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen), 1885-1962	p. 229
James Joyce, 1882-1941	p. 239
Adolf Hitler, 1889-1945	p. 251
Pox Gallery
A Gallery of Pox: The Myth of Syphilis	p. 305
Epilogue	p. 317
Ten Clues to Secret Syphilis	p. 319
Stokes's Case Study	p. 321
Notes	p. 323
Bibliography	p. 353
Index	p. 367
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Genius, Madness, And The Mysteries Of Syphilis

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