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For one pleasure a thousand pains

  • Writer: Effable
    Effable
  • Apr 19, 2020
  • 1 min read

"Quarantine", Quarantine is voluntary or compulsory isolation, typically to contain the spread of something considered dangerous, often but not always disease. The word comes from the Italian (17th Century Venetian) quarantena, meaning forty day period.” In this engraving from about 1660, a syphilis sufferer gets fumigated in a special oven. The caption on the oven translates as “For one pleasure a thousand pains.

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