Remedy for Syphilis

Brewing and administering a medicine against syphilis. On the right, the trunk of the American medicinal plant Guaiacum is chopped into pieces by a servant. Other servants are making medicine from the pieces of bark. On the left, a bedroom where the medicine is being administered to a patient by a doctor. A painting on the wall shows a brothel, a reference to the licentiousness that lies at the origin of syphilis. The print has a Latin inscription and is part of a nineteen-part series on new inventions and discoveries.