List of syphilis cases

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|Strongly suspected of having syphilis

|Congenital syphilis

|Better known as Blackbeard. Died in battle against Robert Maynard{{cite journal |last1=Sands |first1=K. |last2=Dennis |first2=M. |last3= Venkatesh |first3=R. |title=Fr02-06 Down the Chute |journal=The Journal of Urology |date=2020 |volume=203 |issue=203 |pages=293–294 |doi=10.1097/JU.0000000000000851.06 |s2cid=218949508 |url=https://www.auajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1097/JU.0000000000000851.06 |url-access=subscription }}

|Died from syphilisLawley, Robert Neville (1852). General Seydlitz, a Military Biography. W. Clowes & Sons, pp 178–179.

|Neurosyphilis{{cite journal |last1=Peschel |first1=E. |last2=Peschel |first2=R. |title=Donizetti and the music of mental derangement: Anna Bolena, Lucia di Lammermoor, and the composer's neurobiological illness. |journal=The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine |date=1992 |volume=65 |issue=3 |pages=189–200 |pmid=1285447 |pmc=2589608 }}

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|Died from syphilisCannon, M. (1974). "Montez, Lola (1821–1861)". Montez, Lola (1818–1861). Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 5. Australian National University. https://web.archive.org/web/20121126203945/http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/montez-lola-4226

|Retrospectively diagnosed or suspected to have died of syphilis.{{cite web |last1=Kinyon |first1=Jon |title=Leland Stanford: The Robber Baron's Troubling History |url=https://powerlesspress.substack.com/p/leland-stanford-the-robber-barons |website=Powerless Press |date=January 1, 2022 |quote=Leland’s sudden demise, considered to be the result of untreated syphilis}}

|Died by suicide on account of blindness caused by neurosyphilis.

|Suspected to have had syphilis{{cite book|title=Tolstoy: A Biography|author=Wilson, A. G.|publisher=Norton|year=2001|isbn=0-393-32122-3|location=New York}}

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|Cause of death disputed, but syphilis or mercury poisoning from syphilis treatment are leading theories.

|Cause of death disputed, but symptoms match to mercury poisoning from syphilis treatment. {{cite journal | url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/096777209500300409 | doi=10.1177/096777209500300409 | title=Schubert and Syphilis | date=1995 | last1=Rold | first1=Robert L. | journal=Journal of Medical Biography | volume=3 | issue=4 | pages=232–235 | pmid=11616366 | url-access=subscription }}

|Acquired syphilis from a prostitute in the age of 21. https://robertgreenbergmusic.com/music-history-monday-a-very-bad-ending/

|Cause of death listed as "Locomotor ataxia 6 months", presumed to be a reference to syphilis.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IIAsN6I0xUQC&q=Bram+Stoker%5D%5D's+%5B%5Bdeath+certificate+syphilis&pg=PA415|title=Bram Stoker's Dracula: Sucking Through the Century, 1897–1997|first=Carol Margaret|last=Davison|date=1 November 1997|publisher=Dundurn|via=Google Books|isbn=9781554881055}}{{Cite web|url=https://blog.oup.com/2012/04/bram-stoker-death-centenary-dracula/|title=100 years ago today: the death of Bram Stoker|date=20 April 2012|website=OUPblog}}

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|Suspected to have had syphilis{{citation needed|date=April 2019}}

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|Died from syphilis{{Cite web|url=http://www.favorite-classical-composers.com/frederick-delius.html|title=Frederick Delius Biography Sublime Music, Tragic Life|work=Favorite Classical Composers|accessdate=2011-05-30}}

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|Suspected to have had syphilis{{cite news|url=http://thehumanmarvels.com/blog/?p=138|title=Eugen Sandow—Father of Bodybuilding|last=Tithonus|first=Pednuad, J.|accessdate=2008-09-17|publisher=The Human Marvels|quote=At the time of his death in 1925, a cover story was released stating Sandow died prematurely at age 58 of a stroke shortly after pushing his car out of the mud. The actual cause of death was more likely due to complications from syphilis.}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KlYYAAAAIAAJ|title=St. James encyclopedia of popular culture|author=Tom Pendergast and Sara Pendergast|publisher=St. James Press|year=2000|isbn=978-1-55862-404-7|quote=... speculates that the strongman's death may have been the result of an aortic aneurysm brought about by syphilis.}}

|Retrospectively diagnosed or suspected to have died of syphilis.{{cite news |last1=Chivers |first1=C. J. |title=A Retrospective Diagnosis Says Lenin Had Syphilis |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/22/science/a-retrospective-diagnosis-says-lenin-had-syphilis.html |work=The New York Times |date=June 22, 2004}}

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|Suspected to have had syphilis{{cite news|url=http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/74776.php|title=Did Hitler Have Syphilis?|work=Medical News Today|accessdate=2010-10-02|quote=An encounter with a Jewish prostitute in Vienna in 1908 may have given Hitler neuro-syphilis and provided the 'deadly logic and blueprint for the Holocaust' as well as giving him a reason to attempt to eliminate the mentally retarded, according to evidence presented at the Royal College of Psychiatrists.}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p8wM1Y4opdQC|title=Pox: Genius, Madness, And The Mysteries Of Syphilis|author=Hayden, Deborah|date=4 August 2008|publisher=Basic Books|isbn=978-0786724130|oclc=50725392}}{{cite journal |last1=Retief |first1=Francois |last2=Wessels |first2=A. |title=Did Adolf Hitler have syphilis? |journal=South African Medical Journal |date=22 December 2005 |volume=95 |issue=10 |pages=750–753 |pmid=16341329 |url=https://www.ajol.info/index.php/samj/article/view/13733 }}

|Died from syphilis{{cite book|title=Capone: The Man and the Era|url=https://archive.org/details/caponemanera00berg|url-access=registration|last=Bergreen|first=Laurence|publisher=Simon and Schuster Paperbacks|year=1994|isbn=978-0-684-82447-5|location=New York}}

|Admitted before his execution he had been treated for syphilis.

|Died from syphilis{{cite web|url=http://www.thebluestrail.com/artists/mus_ata.htm|title=Texas Alexander|publisher=Thebluestrail.com|accessdate=2015-08-30}}

|Diagnosed with neurosyphilis in 1932.Brown and Broeske 1996, p. 183–185

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