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Syphilis
Webster's Dictionary
(n.) The pox, or venereal disease; a chronic, specific, infectious disease, usually communicated by sexual intercourse or by hereditary transmission, and occurring in three stages known as primary, secondary, and tertiary syphilis. See under Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Syphilis'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/s/syphilis.html. 1828.