A Classic View of Syphilis

So I was sitting here studying for my Tuesday final when I came across an interesting quote from The Breviary of Helthe (an infectious disease textbook written in 1547) describing syphilis:

"...In englyshe Morbus Gallicus [Syphilis] is named the french pockes, whan I was yonge they were named the spanyshe pockes the whyche be of many kyndes of pockes, some be moyst, some be waterashe, some be drye, and some be skorvie, some be lyke scabbes, some be lyke ring wormes, some be fistuled, some be festered, some be cankarus, some be lyke wenne, some be lyke biles, some be lyke knobbles or burres, and some be ulcerous havynge a lytle drye scabbe in the middle of the ulcerous skabbe, some hath ache in the jointes and no singe of the pockes yet it may be the pockes … The cause of these impediments or infyrmytes doth come many wayes, it maye come by lyenge in the shetes or bedde there where a pocky person hath the night before lyenin, it may come with lyenge with a pocky person, it maye come by syttenge on a draught or sege where as a pocky person did lately syt, it may come by drynkynge oft with a pocky person, but specially it is taken when a pocky person doth synne in letchery the one with another."

I guess I don't need to worry about syphilis because I doth not synne in letchery the one with another pocky person, nor doth I lyenge in the shetes or bedde there where a pocky person hath the night before lyenin. Hopefully syphilis doesn't come my way by syttenge on a draught or sege where a pocky person did lately syt!

... alright, back to studying for me. Focus Eric focus!