The Secret Malady

The Secret Malady PDF Author: Linda Evi Merians
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 9780813108889
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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Book 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.