A wonderfully evocative image illustrating--quite graphically--the dangers of syphilis in the form of seductive women, circa 1851. I came across this image, which serves as the frontspiece of A. M. Barthélémy's Syphilis: Poeme en Quatre Chants, in Ludmilla Jordanova's fascinating Sexual Visions: Images of Gender in Science and Medicine Between the Eighteenth and Twentieth Centuries.
