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A Sweating Tub for Treating Syphilis
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The engraved titlepage of a Latin comedy, Cornelianum Dolium, by "T. R." published in 1638, shows a man standing in a sweating tub; the fumes of cinnabar or mercuric sulphide were thought to cure venereal disease. The top inscription reads: "Farewell, O Venus and Cupids"; the lower, "I sit on the throne of Venus, I suffer in the tub."
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