Your Brain on Religion: Mystic visions or brain circuits at work?
Late syphilis symptoms - after severe progression of tertiary syphilis
* Mental illness
* Blindness
* Neurologic problems
* Heart disease
* Death
* Neurosyphilis
o No symptoms
o Headache
o Stiff neck
o Fever
o Seizures
o Stroke-like symptoms
o Paralysis
o Numbness
o Weakness
o Visual problems
Syphilitic fever could have caused the excessive sweats.
Syphilis - tertiary (Late Stage)
Tertiary syphilis can follow the initial infection, primary syphilis, by 3 to 15 years. Secondary syphilis is the stage that precedes tertiary syphilis if primary syphilis is not treated.
In tertiary syphilis, the spirochetes have continued to reproduce for years. Pockets of damage accumulate in various tissues such as the bones, skin, nervous tissue, heart, and arteries. These lesions are called gummas and are very destructive.
Lesions in the central nervous system produce neurological disease called neurosyphilis which can include tabes dorsalis, general paresis, and optic atrophy. Lesions of the heart, heart valves and aorta can lead to aneurysms, valvular heart disease, and aortitis.
Tertiary syphilis is less frequently seen today than in the past because of early detection and adequate treatment.
"Many scientists seem to believe that visionaries of various sorts were probably epileptics."
Many scientists are wrong.
I have spoken with Angels and seen strange things.
I am not epileptic.