History of ENT archive for July 2024

Photo showing Congenital Syphilitic Saddle Nose deformity.

Down with the nose, down with it flat

4 July 2024 | | ENT

In Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens, Timon urges prostitutes to spread syphilis throughout Athens. He implores the whores, Phrynia and Timandra, to: Consumptions* sow In hollow bones of man; strike their sharp shins,And mar men’s spurring*. Crack the lawyer’s voice**, That...