Congenital Syphilis in the Archaeologica
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BRUCE M. ROTHSCHILD; CHRISTINE ROTHSCHILD
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Article
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1997
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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The paucity of convincing evidence for congenital bone lesions of syphilis in the archaeological record led to study of the human remains from the Buffalo site in West Virginia, dated at 550Β±650 years BP. The diagnosis of syphilis (venereal) in adults was based on previously validated population cri