Oh dear God. Talk about a little knowledge is dangerous. Well, he surely lost his giggling audience towards the end there, didn't he?
I think his bout of gonorrhea had quite an effect on Hubbard. Likely because the treatment he would have received involved regular installations of the medication directly into the urethrea as opposed to treatment after the development of penicillin, which was injected via syringe into the buttock.
Hubbard's first fallacy in thinking: VD = no sex
People who have venereal diseases are certainly capable of having sex and regularly do so. How else would it get spread?
Oh, and Heine had what was then termed "non specific urethritis". Symptoms would mimic gonorrheal discharge. But the microbe for neither gonorrhea nor syphilis could be seen in cultures. I'm pretty sure they never even heard of chlamydia in those days.
It is SO difficult to hear this bullshyte and realize that so many good people fell for this load of crap.
Oh well. Once again, I am so glad all (or most) of you here are OUT!
Note: If you ever want to do some interesting medical history reading, look up some of what is available online about the history of syphilis. Fascinating reading! Did you ever know that the popularity of the "Hot Springs" movement - as in Hot Springs, Arkansas - was related to it being a cure for syphilis? Yeah, I never did either, but it was.
How I got onto this: Doing genealogy research. Obtained the death certificate for a great, great, grandfather. It listed complications of syphilis as a contributing factor for his death. In 1910. Said he had it for "30+ years". And he was the "Civil War hero" of the family!