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Chemists Investigate Casanova's Clap

May 02, 20194 min
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Episode description

In his memoirs, the womanizing writer Giacomo Casanova described suffering several bouts of gonorrhea—but researchers found no trace of the microbe on his handwritten journals. Karen Hopkin reports.

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