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Veniamin Tarnovsky
Dr. Tarnovsky
also: доктор Тарновский
Veniamin Tarnovsky (1837-1906), prominent Russian venereologist and syphilis specialist; named as one of Venus's patron-beneficiaries, a joke tying the goddess of love to the doctors who treated love's diseases (the 'mercury ointments' mentioned earlier in the piece).
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- On March §26 Dr. Tarnovsky
Veniamin Tarnovsky, a real, well-known Russian venereologist -- named as one of Venus's beneficiaries, continuing the running joke that connects the goddess of love to the treatment of venereal disease.