Syphilis: the benefits of its medical treatment, contrasted with the consequences of leaving it untreated. Colour lithograph, 192-.

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[1920?]
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535992i
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Syphilis: the benefits of its medical treatment, contrasted with the consequences of leaving it untreated. Colour lithograph, 192-. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Above, steps up lead to a white arch supported by Ionic columns with red crosses. At the top of the steps, under the arch, stand a physician in a white coat, and a family. The mother holds his right hand. Left, two children point down to an inscription referring to the curability of syphilis. The physician points down to an inscription on the effect of leaving it untreated. Right of the physician, the father (a soldier) and a nurse with a baby. Below them, the victims of syphilis, bowed under the weight of a heavy black cross: a madman (wild-eyed), a man walking with a stick, a man representing deformity, a man carrying a child's coffin, a woman with mentally defective children

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Kiev : Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo, [1920?] (Kiev : Sovetskai︠a︡ Khromo-litografi︠︡ia Bul. She[letter indistinct]chenka)

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1 print : lithograph ; sheet 73.7 x 53.4 cm

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U.S.S.R. Proletarii vsekh starn, soedin︠︡iaĭtes'! Sifilis izlechim. V samom nachale bolezni sifilis izlechivaetsi︠a︡ dolgim akkuratnym lecheniem. Posledstvi︠︡ia nedolechennogo sifilisa. Sumasshestvie. Paralich. Urodstvo. Mertvorozhd deti. Deti-idioty

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Wellcome Collection 535992i

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