Historical & etymological sources
The blame relationships are compiled by hand from secondary literature (all freely readable online). Per-claim citations are in blame-table.md.
- Tampa et al., “Brief History of Syphilis,” J Med Life (2014)
- JMVH, “Syphilis – its early history and treatment until penicillin”
- History Today, “Pox and Paranoia in Renaissance Europe” (Cummins, 1988)
- Surgeons’ Hall Museums (Scotland)
- Vesmír, “Syfilis v Čechách” (Bohemia, 1996)
- Hrvatska enciklopedija, “sifilis” (Croatia)
- IJDVL, “Social aspects of syphilis … terminology” (India)
- PMC, “Identifying treponemal disease in early East Asia”
- Wikipedia / Wiktionary, “History of syphilis”