Nova Reperta, Cure for Venereal Infection

PLATE 6. The Discovery of Guaiacum as a Cure for Venereal Infection, Sixth plate from a print series entitled Nova Reperta (New Inventions of Modern Times) consisting of a title page and 19 plates, engraved by Jan Collaert I, after Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, and published by Philips Galle. Illustration of two rooms, each containing different occupants performing diverse tasks. On the left side an elderly man is depicted ill in bed while two men attend to him. On the right side a woman fans the fire, while another one uses a scale to weigh food. In the foreground a man seated on the floor chops logs of wood

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1600 1600s Bedchamber Collaert Cure Diseases Guaiacum Infection Infections Inventions Measures Measuring Medicinal Nova Reperta Seventeeth Sexually Syphilis Syphilitic Transmitted Venereal Weighing Weights

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