Vulgar words in The Third Great Plague - A Discussion of Syphilis for Everyday People (Page 1)
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Conviction seems to require that we see the damaged goods, the scars, the sores, the eaten bones, the hobbling cripples, the maimed, the halt, and the blind.
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It is responsible for the kind of damaged goods which gives the disease its reality for the every-day person.
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I had to sit beside their beds when they heard the truth; I had to see the women crumple up and go limp; I had to tell the blind child's father that he did it, to bolster up the weak girl, to rebuild the wife's broken ideals, to suppress the rowdy and the roysterer, to hear the vows of the boy who was paying for his first mistake, and listen to the stories of the pimp and the seducer.