one night with Venus, a lifetime with Mercury

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谚语
  1. A single sexual encounter can lead to a lifetime of disease and treatment.
    — An eminent physiologist, in the bad old days when Salvarsan and certain other Hg compounds were the only known remedy for venereal diseases, is said to have warned his students that 'One night with Venus may mean a lifetime with Mercury'.

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From the use of mercury compounds in the treatment of venereal diseases before the discovery of antibiotics.
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