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  • The Lock Hospital and chapel: view of the street facade, and a detail of the chapel interior. Coloured engraving by W. Wise after R. Schnebbelie, 1815.
  • The preparation of the medicine guaiacum from a tree (right), and a man in bed suffering from syphilis, drinking a decoction of the medicine (left). Line engraving by P. Galle after J. van der Straet.
  • Parler des problèmes de santé gênants, pourquoi s'en préoccuper, et à qui s'adresser? / ARCAT.
  • A woman representing syphilis; advertising Dr Abreu's sanatorium for syphilitics in Barcelona. Colour lithograph by R. Casas, ca. 1900.
  • Atlas of skin and venereal diseases / comprising original illustrations and selections from the plates of M. Kaposi [and others] ; with original text by Prince A. Morrow.
  • Las infecciones de transmisión sexual (ITS) / ARCAT.
  • A diseased heart, showing an aortic aneursym with an enlarged left ventricle. Chromolithograph by W. Gummelt, ca. 1897.
  • A shield to protect against syphilis represented as a skull. Lithograph, 1924/1930.
  • Las infecciones de transmisión sexual (ITS) / ARCAT.
  • Graphische and typographische Erstlinge der Syphilisliteratur aus den Jahren 1495 und 1496 : zusammengetragen und ins Licht gestellt / von Karl Sudhoff. (Mit 24 Tafeln).
  • An essay on the venereal diseases which have been confounded with symptoms, which exclusively arise from that poison ... / [Richard Carmichael].
  • Atlas of syphilis / by Leo v. Zumbusch.
  • Graphische and typographische Erstlinge der Syphilisliteratur aus den Jahren 1495 und 1496 : zusammengetragen und ins Licht gestellt / von Karl Sudhoff. (Mit 24 Tafeln).
  • Atlas of syphilis / by Leo v. Zumbusch.
  • Two young men are approached by a prostitute: she is a clothed skeleton holding a made-up mask in front of her face, representing syphilis. Lithograph by J.J. Grandville, 1830.
  • Ueber die Heilkraft des Guaiacum und die Franzosenseuche / [Ulrich von Hutten] ; übers. von Heinrich Oppenheimer.
  • The earliest printed literature on syphilis : being ten tractates from the years 1495-1498, in complete facsimile / with an introduction and other accesory material by Karl Sudhoff ; adapted by Charles Singer.
  • The preparation of the medicine guaiacum from a tree (right), and a man in bed suffering from syphilis, drinking a decoction of the medicine (left). Line engraving by P. Galle after J. van der Straet.
  • Parler des problèmes de santé gênants, pourquoi s'en préoccuper, et à qui s'adresser? / ARCAT.
  • Graphische and typographische Erstlinge der Syphilisliteratur aus den Jahren 1495 und 1496 : zusammengetragen und ins Licht gestellt / von Karl Sudhoff. (Mit 24 Tafeln).
  • A prostitute lighting a cigarette outside a bar; warning American servicemen against sexually transmitted diseases. Colour lithograph after Ferree, 194-.
  • A young man and a young woman walking blindfolded along an idyllic lakeside path towards a satyr; representing ignorance leading to sexually transmitted diseases. Colour lithograph, ca. 1925.
  • Parler des problèmes de santé gênants, pourquoi s'en préoccuper, et à qui s'adresser? / ARCAT.
  • Consultations de dépistage anonyme et gratuit : hépatites B et C, Sida, syphilis : où en êtes-vous? / Conseil général de l'Essonne.
  • Head illustrating syptoms of syphilis. Engraving, 1632.
  • Syphilis in general practice : with special reference to the tropics / by K.K. Chatterji.
  • A prostitute gives evidence to a magistrate: she points towards Tom Idle dividing loot with his accomplice, as a corpse is being disposed of through a trapdoor. Engraving by Thomas Cook, 1795, after William Hogarth.
  • A group of vaccinators leading a small-pocked woman form a procession past a university, with Death waving his scythe behind them; the members of the university doze in the foreground; attributing the decline of Germany in 19th century to vaccination and syphilis. Lithograph after C.G.G. Nittinger, 1856.
  • Syphilis: ten people, one of whom is diagnosed as having syphilis. Colour lithograph after Fellnagel, 1940.