Historic Treatment of Syphilis
A Renaissance physician treats a patient with a New World remedy: a formula concocted from a special wood that is shaved and then brewed over a fire. The painting hanging on the wall to the right of the sickbed shows the behavior that supposedly brought on the affliction. The Treatment of Syphilis, engraved by Philip Galle
Picture No
10799850
Media ID
47600880
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2550px x 1833px
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Credit
©Photo Researchers / Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Photo Researchers
