[ashtanga]

I don't know anything about Clinton's health, but if I remember correctly, syphilis comes in three stages: a sore in the private parts, which goes away, then painful and ugly blisters along the back and thighs, and then the disease goes into remission for about twenty years. In the tertiary stage, it manifests itself as a deterioration of the thinking processes. This phenomenon is sometimes surprising, in that the victim will become quite artistic, for lack of a better term, and full of all sorts of questionable but colorful schemes.

[doberville]

IIRC, tertiary syphillis also attacks the heart valves as well as the brain tissue in advanced cases. Hmmm.