Sky Eclat
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Suffering from a case of Syphilis? Don’t worry, the Tudor’s got you🥺
Syringe recovered from Henry VIII’s ship the Mary Rose which sank in 1545.
These syringes were often times used to treat syphilis by injecting mercury.
Syringes were used as urethral syringes, for treating diseases such as syphilis. However the use of mercury for such treatment and the fact that mercury corrodes pewter rather rapidly suggests that this pewter syringe was more likely used to administer a non-corrosive fluid such as rosewater, or acidic ones such as wine or vinegar, which were used for flushing out wounds. They could also have been used for draining fluids from the bladder.