num_pages: 280
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.
language: English
title: The Secret Malady: Venereal Disease in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France
titlecomplete: The Secret Malady: Venereal Disease in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Univ Pr of Kentucky