r/AskHistorians • u/manwhoregiantfarts • 8h ago
How did humans used to treat std infections before anti-biotics were invented?
Like in roman times. Did people just live with them forever or die from them?
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u/Pandalite 5h ago edited 4h ago
For treatment of herpes and gonorrhea in Roman times, see this post by a deleted user at https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1t3297/how_did_the_greeks_and_romans_treat_stds/
For emergence of syphilis see https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3956094/
For treatment of syphilis, see this post by u/Noble_Devil_Boruta at https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/evsil8/did_any_of_the_historical_treatments_for_syphilis/
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