Martyrdom of Mercury, 1709. Depicts patients being treated for syphilis in an 18th-century hospital. From the book The Scourge of Venus and Mercury by John Sintelaer.
London, Wellcome Library (EurekAlert, Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)) See the book online in Tripod 
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