Medicine against syphilis, Hyacvm et lves venerea (title on object), New inventions and discoveries (series title), Nova Reperta (series title), Brewing and administering a medicine against syphilis On the right, the strain of the American medicinal plant Guaiacum is a servant chopped into pieces. Other servants make a medicine from the pieces of bark. On the left a bedroom where the medicine is administered to a patient by a doctor. A painting on the wall shows a brothel, a reference to the debauchery that is the origin of syphilis. The print has a Latin caption and is part of a nineteenth-pa

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