You can die of untreated syphilis. Syphilis is easily treated, so it's not necessary to let it kill you.
Contracted syphilis and died
Ernest Finger has written: 'Die Syphilis und die venerischen Krankheiten' -- subject(s): Sexually transmitted diseases, Syphilis
It is believed that he died of Tertiary Syphilis.
He died from a slow fever.
No, it wasn't schizophrenia depression. He died from syphilis and pneumonia. Back then, people who contracted syphilis were placed in asylums because they were considered crazy. I can only imagine how he was treated there.
Catherine (Kitty) Hershey died on March 25th, 1918 from syphilis which is an STD that slowly weakens your muscles. Syphilis is occasionally referred to as locomotor ataxia. Eventually, people suffering from syphilis often die from complications of pneumonia or organ failure. Kitty Hershey officially died from the pneumonia which as I said above is a common complication of syphilis.
His name was van GOGH! Theo died of syphilis.
John Batman died on the 6th of May 1839.
Dino Campana died on March 1, 1932, in Scandicci, Tuscany, Italy of syphilis.
The usual things: diseases (plague and syphilis were big ones), accidents, old age.
Because syphilis gets into the blood.