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===Arts and literature=== {{See also|List of syphilis cases}} [[File:400Behandlung der Syphilis.jpg|thumb|An early medical illustration of people with syphilis, Vienna, 1498]] The earliest known depiction of an individual with syphilis is [[Albrecht Dürer]]'s ''[[Syphilitic Man]]'' (1496), a woodcut believed to represent a [[Landsknecht]], a Northern European [[mercenary]].<ref>{{cite journal |last=Eisler |first=CT |title=Who is Dürer's "Syphilitic Man"? |journal=Perspectives in Biology and Medicine |volume=52 |issue=1 |pages=48–60 |date=Winter 2009 |pmid=19168944 |s2cid=207268142 |doi=10.1353/pbm.0.0065}}</ref> The myth of the ''[[femme fatale]]'' or "poison women" of the 19th century is believed to be partly derived from the devastation of syphilis, with classic examples in literature including [[John Keats]]' "[[La Belle Dame sans Merci]]".<ref>{{cite book|last=Hughes|first=Robert|title=Things I didn't know: a memoir|year=2007|publisher=Vintage|location=New York|isbn=978-0-307-38598-7|page=346|edition=1st Vintage Book}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Wilson|first=Elizabeth |editor-first=Joanne |editor-last=Entwistle |title=Body dressing|year=2005|publisher=Berg Publishers|location=Oxford|isbn=978-1-85973-444-5|page=205|edition=[Online-Ausg.]}}</ref> The Flemish artist [[Stradanus]] designed a print called ''Preparation and Use of Guayaco for Treating Syphilis'', a scene of a wealthy man receiving treatment for syphilis with the tropical wood [[guaiacum]] sometime around 1590.<ref>{{cite book|last=Reid|first=Basil A.|title=Myths and realities of Caribbean history|year=2009|publisher=University of Alabama Press|location=Tuscaloosa, AL|isbn=978-0-8173-5534-0|pages=113|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KtT0_P-9xiAC&pg=PA113|edition=[Online-Ausg.]|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160202071727/https://books.google.com/books?id=KtT0_P-9xiAC&pg=PA113|archive-date=2 February 2016}}</ref>
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