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IN his interesting letter Prof. Pearson discusses two questions: (1) Did Europeans suffer from syphilis before the return of Columbus from America? (2) Does the skull cast of Robert Bruce give any indication that the king suffered from syphilis? I can see nothing in the skull cast symptomatic of this disease; the points mentioned by Prof. Pearson are not in my opinion indicative of syphilis.
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KEITH, A. The Skull of Robert the Bruce. Nature 115, 572 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115572a0
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