Poor Henry consults a doctor in Salerno about his leprosy: they sit opposite each other in the doctor's study while the doctor explains his remedy. Aquatint by F. Hegi, 1810.

An episode in the German narrative poem Der arme Heinrich by Hartmann von Aue (Ouwe). The nobleman Heinrich von Ouwe is afflicted with leprosy. He consults a physician in Salerno who tells him that he can only be cured by blood from the heart of a virgin who sacrifices herself for him. In a later episode Heinrich refuses that condition at the last minute before the physician cuts out the heart of a virgin, but is healed by a miracle. Here Heinrich (right) consults the medical expert (left) in the latter's study. A book which the physician was copying in his scriptorium contains works by Galen ("Galenus"). A stuffed crocodile hangs from the ceiling on the right. The furniture and costumes are mediaevalising