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Research and scientific advancements
- Systematic attempts to distinguish venereal diseases.
- Gonorrhea was recognized as a venereal disease in 13th and 14th centuries
- In 1496, Joseph Grunpeck clearly described mixed infections of syphilis and gonorrhea.
- In 1530, Paracelsus declared gonorrhea to be an early stage of syphilis
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