Medicine against syphilis; Hyacvm et lves venerea; New inventions and discoveries; Nova Reperta. The brewing and administration of a medication against syphilis on the right is the tribe of the American medicinal plant guiacum through a servant in pieces minced. Other servants make a medicine from the bark pieces. 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 looseness that is at the origin of syphilis. The print has a Latin caption and is part of a ninetical series about new inventions and discover


Medicine against syphilis; Hyacvm et lves venerea; New inventions and discoveries; Nova Reperta. The brewing and administration of a medication against syphilis on the right is the tribe of the American medicinal plant guiacum through a servant in pieces minced. Other servants make a medicine from the bark pieces. 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 looseness that is at the origin of syphilis. The print has a Latin caption and is part of a ninetical series about new inventions and discoveries.


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