Syphilis is a well know sexually transmitted infections (STI) disease with very ancient origins and has struck numerous personalities and this particularly in the nineteenth century, Derma Info. (2015). The exact provenance of syphilis is still unsure, but some hypotheses suggest that it might have been carried from America to Europe by the crew of the famous explorer Christopher Columbus which first made a significant impact in the 1450s, Origins of syphilis. (1997). The other argued that syphilis was already present in Europe in the 1500s, Museum of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society. (2007).
Its diagnostic is not always easy because it’s often mistaken with other STI such as genital herpes (condition health grove.com,