Utterly interesting

Imagine sitting in a dingy consulting room sometime around 1900. You’ve come to see a doctor because your skin has erupted in angry sores, your joints ache unbearably, and there’s a constant buzzing in your ears. The diagnosis, whispered with discomfort, is syphilis. There is no easy cure, no guarantee of recovery, and the treatment itself might kill you faster than the disease. This was once the grim reality for millions. Long before the humble penicillin mould transformed