⚠Page exhibits heavy mirrored bleed-through (show-through) from the printed title page on the reverse side. The only correctly oriented text on this page is the library stamp and the Latin quote in the center.

ROYAL LIBRARY OF MUNICH original Latin: "BIBLIOTHECA REGIA MONACENSIS." This stamp identifies the volume as formerly belonging to the library of the Bavarian monarchs.

A faint, mirrored "show-through" of the title page is visible on the paper. This is a common occurrence in 18th-century books where the ink from the front of the page (recto) has bled through to the back (verso). The reversed text includes the title "Treatise on the Venereal Disease" and an oval portrait.

Treatise

on the

Venereal Disease

by

Christoph Girtanner

Doctor of Medicine and Surgery, Correspondent of the Royal Society of Sciences in Göttingen.

Time erases the fictions of opinion; it confirms the judgments of nature.

Cicero.

original Latin: "Opinionum commenta delet dies; naturae judicia confirmat." This quote from Marcus Tullius Cicero's De Natura Deorum (On the Nature of the Gods) was a popular motto during the Enlightenment. It suggests that while speculative theories (opinions) eventually fade away, the objective truths of the natural world (nature's judgments) are proven true over time.

An oval engraving depicts a figure in classical attire, likely representing health or medicine, which was a standard decorative element for medical textbooks of this era.

Volume Two.

Göttingen,

published by Johann Christian Dieterich,

1 7 8 9.