Remedy for Syphilis

Brewing and administering a medicine against syphilis. On the right the stem of the American medicinal plant Guaiacum is chopped into pieces by a servant. 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 lies at the origin of syphilis. The print is part of a nineteen-part series on new inventions and discoveries.