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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five Futures Where the US Ended Not With a Bang But a
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Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2025 18:05:41 -0500
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On 7/21/2025 9:57 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Jul 2025 16:19:59 -0400, William Hyde
> <wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Many US states used to require blood tests before issuing a marriage
> licence and in most jurisdictions the stated reason was to ensure
> sexually transmitted diseases weren't present at a marriage.
> 
> This has been waived in most jurisdictions in the last 50 years. (At
> least I didn't have to do one though for my own benefit did a medical
> checkup late in our engagement)

Blood tests were required in Texas when my wife and I got married 43 
years ago in 1982.

Lynn