In A Farewell to Arms, the major tells Frederick Henry that Lieutenant Rinaldi believes he has symptoms of this disease. Composer Adrian Leverkühn claims that he acquired this disease in exchange for musical genius in Thomas 
In A Farewell to Arms, the major tells Frederick Henry that Lieutenant Rinaldi believes he has symptoms of this disease. Composer Adrian Leverkühn claims that he acquired this disease in exchange for musical genius in Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus. Helen considers euthanizing her son Oswald Alving after she learns that he has this disease in Ibsen's (*) Ghosts. A character who believes that he lives in the "best of all possible worlds" is infected with this disease after he cavorts with Paquette. For 10 points, identify this sexually-transmitted disease which, according to Pangloss, came from the New World via the Columbian exchange.
In A Farewell to Arms, the major tells Frederick Henry that Lieutenant Rinaldi believes he has symptoms of this disease.
syphilis