The Secret Malady

The Secret Malady

Venereal Disease in Eighteenth-century Britain and France

by Linda Evi Merians

269 pages· 1996· ISBN 9780813108889
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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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