Re: (ReacTor) Five Futures Where the US Ended Not With a Bang But a Whimper

Scott Dorsey wrote:

William Hyde  <wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:

Irrelevant.  Randolph was sick, possibly but not certainly from
syphilis.  Nothing heritable, at any rate.

 But syphilis -is- heritable, and frequently was inherited in the 19th
century and the early part of the 20th before Dr. Ehrlich's cure.
--scott
 

As I understand it, the victim is contagious for a few years, but then, though still infected, he no longer spreads the disease. So if Randolph caught it - and it is far from clear that he did - it must have been well before his marriage.
William Hyde