"Ich habe die Franzosen gehabt" (in English: I have had the French).

Human diseases are a transnational thing. Meet this woodcut detail from a German seventeenth-century medical #broadsheet highlighting a curing of the "French disease" aka #syphilis.

Access the print: https://katalog.slub-dresden.de/id/0-1656750759

A short thread for #histmed, #histodons and #bookhistory

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A folded #broadsheet. Broadsheets or #broadsides are only printed on one side and often featured an image and a text part. This one seems to have only text: about a Victory? These single-sheet items, as #bookhistory calls them, were steadily produced for special occasions, and sold well.

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Broadsheets were often glued or pinned to walls, as this detail highlights. Here, this paper #broadsheet is positioned under a small bookshelf full of paper books.

Bonus for experts of early modern #bookhistory: more evidence of #backwardsbooks.

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Broadsheets were often glued or pinned to walls, as this detail highlights. Here, this paper #broadsheet is positioned under a small bookshelf full of paper books.

Bonus for experts of early modern #bookhistory: more evidence of #backwardsbooks.

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