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The Secret Malady : Venereal Disease in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France, Like AIDS today, venereal disease existed in epidemical proportions in eighteenth-century Britain and France. Medical practitioners of every stripe - legitimate and otherwise - knew little but wrote volumes about its origins, symptoms, and cures. The pa, The Secret Malady : Venereal Disease in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France
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  • The Secret Malady : Venereal Disease in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France
  • Written by author Linda E. Merians
  • Published by The University Press of Kentucky, 1997/12/31
  • Like AIDS today, venereal disease existed in epidemical proportions in eighteenth-century Britain and France. Medical practitioners of every stripe - legitimate and otherwise - knew little but wrote volumes about its origins, symptoms, and "cures." The pa
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Introduction 1
1 The Pox in Eighteenth-Century France 15
2 From Courtesan to Prostitute: Mercenary Sex and Venereal Disease, 1730-1802 34
3 "Laying Aside Any Private Advantage": John Marten and Venereal Disease 51
4 Exposing the Secret Disease: Recognizing and Treating Syphilis in Daniel Turner's London 68
5 John Burrows and the Vegetable Wars 85
6 "And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse": Syphilis and Wives 103
7 The Problem of Syphilitic Children in Eighteenth-Century France and England 114
8 The London Lock Hospital and the Lock Asylum for Women 128
9 Decorums 149
10 The Meaning of Venereal Disease in Hogarth's Graphic Art 168
11 Satiric Representation of Venereal Disease: The Restoration versus the Eighteenth-Century Model 183
12 Pox and Malice: Some Representations of Venereal Disease in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Satire 196
13 Avoiding the Subject: The Presence and Absence of Venereal Disease in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel 213
14 Job's Curse and Social Degeneracy in Retif de la Bretonne's Le Paysan Perverti 228
15 Contagion and Containment: Sade and the Republic of Letters 243
Contributors 261
Index 263


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