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title: 'Sífilis: Curación absoluta y radical en el Sanatorio para sifilíticos (Syphilis: Absolute and Radical Cure at the Sanatorium for Syphilitics)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sifilis-sanatorio-abreu-1900/
description: An elegant woman in a pink shawl holds a white lily; behind her back, knotted into the shawl, a small dark snake hangs unseen.
section: Collection
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# Sífilis: Curación absoluta y radical en el Sanatorio para sifilíticos (Syphilis: Absolute and Radical Cure at the Sanatorium for Syphilitics)

An elegant woman in a pink shawl holds a white lily; behind her back, knotted into the shawl, a small dark snake hangs unseen. The word 'Sífilis' is drawn with serpentine letters and the text offers 'absolute and radical cure' at a private sanatorium. Fear-appeal tell: hidden danger behind an innocent surface, followed at once by the seller's remedy.

- **Date:** 1900
- **Period:** [Pre-1914](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=pre-1914)
- **Made by:** Sanatorio para sifilíticos (Dr Abreu), Barcelona (design by Ramon Casas, printed by J. Thomas)
- **Region:** [Western and Central Europe](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=western-central-europe)
- **Country:** [Spain](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=spain)
- **Medium:** [Poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=poster)
- **Issuer type:** [Corporation](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=corporation)
- **Regime:** [Spanish Restoration Monarchy](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=spanish-restoration-monarchy)
- **Leader:** [Alfonso Xiii](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=alfonso-xiii)
- **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public)
- **Purpose:** [Mobilize or secure compliance](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=mobilize-comply)
- **Theme:** [Health](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=health)
- **Techniques:** [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/)
- **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- **Source:** [Wellcome Collection (London), work b17527211, reference 752721i](https://wellcomecollection.org/works/vks58zrs), retrieved September 29, 2026
- **Rights:** Public domain (Wellcome Collection Public Domain Mark; published c. 1900) Wellcome Collection

## Text on the object

Original (Spanish) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
SÍFILIS
Curación
absoluta y radical
en el
Sanatorio para sifilíticos
Calle Mayor de la Bonanova · 74 ·
Para mas informes al Dr. Abreu, calle Vergara · 10 · Barcelona
ó en el mismo establecimiento
al Administrador Sr. Rumiá

[Signature on image:] R. Casas
[Printer, lower left:] J. THOMAS — BARCELONA
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
Syphilis. Absolute and radical cure at the Sanatorium for Syphilitics, Calle Mayor de la Bonanova 74. For more information, [ask] Dr Abreu, Calle Vergara 10, Barcelona, or at the establishment itself the administrator Mr Rumiá.
```

The administrator's surname is read as 'Rumiá'; the final letters are small and may be misread. Abbreviation punctuation (Dr., Sr.) follows the printed form as closely as legible.

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