The Secret Malady: Venereal Disease in Eighteenth-century Britain and France

The Secret Malady: Venereal Disease in Eighteenth-century Britain and France
ISBN-10
0813108888
ISBN-13
9780813108889
Category
Medical
Pages
292
Language
English
Published
1996-01-01
Publisher
University Press of Kentucky
Author
Linda Evi Merians

Description

Venereal disease existed in epidemical proportions in 18th-century France and Britain. Initially regarded as the subject for jokes and boasts of Restoration promiscuity, its prevalence as the century wore on forced people to take it seriously. Linda Merians offers a detailed study of the disease.

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