Treatise

on the

Venereal Disease

by

Christoph Girtanner

Time erases the fictions of opinion; it confirms the judgments of nature. original Latin: "Opinionum commenta delet dies; naturae iudicia confirmat." This quote from Cicero's De Natura Deorum (On the Nature of the Gods) reflects the Enlightenment-era focus on empirical science over tradition or speculation.

An oval engraving depicting a female figure in classical dress, likely the goddess Hygieia, the personification of health. She is standing and holding a large snake—a symbol of medicine and rejuvenation—which coils around her right arm and across her waist. She appears to be feeding or tending to the snake's head. The engraving is signed "E. Kopenhagen f." (an abbreviation for the Latin fecit, meaning "made this") at the bottom left of the oval border.

Volume Two.