Claim: Lavinia Dock wrote two volumes of the History of Nursing and published Hygiene and Morality, which supported the treatment of venereal disease or sexually transmitted disease.
Evidence: In 1907, Dock wrote two volumes of the History of Nursing with Mary Adelaide Nutting, which she revised and to which she added two more volumes alone in 1912. In 1910, Dock published Hygiene and Morality, in which she opposed state-regulated prostitution and supported treatment of venereal disease. Sexually transmitted disease (STD);
Venereal disease (VD)