Visual Source: Woodcut of syphilis patients (1498)

European Exploration, Perception of the Other, and the Columbian Exchange

How did the Columbian exchange link worlds?

This is one of the earliest known medical illustrations of Europeans suffering from syphilis. It depicts patients and physicians in Vienna in 1498.

. What does the first print indicate has happened as early as 1498?

Europeans have contracted syphilis.

Doctors have developed a cure of syphilis.

Artists have begun drawing pictures of diseases.

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