Who are the celebrities suffering from syphilis in history?

Syphilis attacks can lead to systemic skin ulceration and even change the appearance.

Syphilis brought them not only physical pain and death.

At the same time, stimulate their spiritual world and stimulate their brains.

We don't know whether syphilis has brought them genius.

But it is obvious to bring them physical pain.

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Columbus discovered America in the15th century and brought back syphilis from America. Syphilis spread from Spain to Sicily and Naples in Italy, from Italy to France, from France to Poland, then to Russia and then to the Middle East. At the same time, Portuguese sailors brought syphilis to India, and then ocean-going sailors spread syphilis to China and from China to Japan.

This indescribable disease spreads so widely that almost all celebrities in all fields you can name are syphilis carriers!

It is simply a history of western human beings spanning hundreds of years, combining the history of western pathology with the history of culture. In order to make people not doubt the beauty of this world, it is also limited to space. Here are only some well-known patients in the fields of art and literature.

* * Post-impressionist painter Van Gogh * *

Van Gogh, whom everyone loves, is suspected of having syphilis. He and Gauguin once visited the same sex worker, which may be the reason why he got syphilis. More and more experts and scholars suspect that Van Gogh's schizophrenia and mania in his later years were influenced by tertiary syphilis, because the virus had invaded his nerve center.

Van Gogh's self-portrait

During this period, Van Gogh did two things out of line. One was to cut off Gauguin's ear for a prostitute who infected them with syphilis, and the other was to attempt suicide with an antique gun. Shortly after committing suicide, Van Gogh died in pain.

Impressionist artist Gauguin

Gauguin contracted syphilis when he settled in Tahiti in his later years. Due to the pathological changes, he often has leg pus, general pain and uncontrollable mania.

Unable to bear the pain, Gauguin had suicidal thoughts, but eventually died of a heart attack. However, before he died, he infected many indigenous women in Tahiti with syphilis. ...

Manet, the pioneer of impressionism

Manet suffered from syphilis and rheumatism in his later years, which made his body often suffer from severe pain and partial paralysis. Illness caused him to amputate at the age of 5 1 year. After the operation of 1 1 day, the artist died suddenly.

The expressionist painter Kasina.

Karhi Turner, one of Van Gogh's fans, is an important painter of the expressionist school represented by Monk. He worshipped Van Gogh all his life and was deeply influenced by Matisse and Monk. When he contracted syphilis in his later years, he followed in the footsteps of his idol Van Gogh-ended his life with a gun.

British genius Oscar Wilde

There are also many writers suffering from syphilis in the literary world, the most representative of which is Oscar Wilde, a British genius. 32-year-old has a same-sex lover of 17 years old. This kind of behavior itself is fine, but at that time, the safety measures were not developed, and it was easy to get syphilis through high-risk sex.

Nietzsche

Nietzsche chased the sun, and his symptoms of syphilis were very serious. He was sent to a mental hospital, even paralyzed for a time.

Nietzsche's talent is his inalienable essence, but his unstable mental state may be brought to him by syphilis.

Syphilis is not equal to creative inspiration.

There is such a cold joke:

A: "What do Mo Bosang, Baudelaire, Schubert, Beethoven, Nietzsche and Flaubert have in common?" B: "Are they all men?" A: "No, they all have syphilis!" " "

Paralytic dementia will appear in the later stage of syphilis. At this time, the patient will have some strange behaviors: paranoia, ecstasy, irritability, madness, and great changes in temperament.

Seeing this, some people will ask, why are all those literary masters inextricably linked with syphilis? Do artists need syphilis to get creative inspiration?

The answer is definitely not like this. Let's use something similar to illustrate it.

According to the explanation of Introduction to Fine Arts, inspiration is based on the accumulation of certain skills training, and then it is easy to occur when the body and mind are relaxed but the brain activity is very active.

To achieve this state, we need to do something to make the brain secrete dopamine, such as China literati and artists drinking. At that time, western literati and artists were not very popular with drinking, and more people liked to have an affair, but as mentioned above, the security measures were not developed at that time, so over time, most of these talented elites were infected with syphilis.

At that time, artists liked to visit romantic places, so everyone thought that these geniuses would be eccentric and even irritable, which should be caused by syphilis affecting their nerve center. At the same time, because of the celebrity effect, getting this disease seems to be the standard of celebrities. Everyone pays attention to these celebrities who are more interested in their private lives, so as a kind of moral ridicule, syphilis has become a "celebrity disease" in people's eyes.

Despite suffering from syphilis, these artists still left behind human wealth. We can't deny their artistic achievements just because their private lives are chaotic, nor can we agree with their behavior just because of their artistic achievements.