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venereal disease

Venereal disease came to Europeans’ attention in a new way in the late fifteenth century, when what the English were to call the French Pox first appeared in Europe during a siege of Naples. This ailment, which bears some relation to our modern diagnosis of syphilis, ravaged Europe, killing people quickly and fearsomely. Other disease spread by sexual relations were also known, although they do not always map well onto modern categories.

Of the vvood called guaiacum, that healeth the Frenche pockes, and also healeth the goute…

von Hutten, Ulrich
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De morbo Gallico…

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Just at St. Andrews Wardrobe Church, between Doctors Commons...

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Hactenus inaudita... new found way of curing the small pox

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...a powder that... perfectly cures the pox, evil, or scurvey

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The private cure, deo adjuvante

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A doctor in physick, (twenty years since fellow of Kings Colledg in Cambridg) in Salisbury…

Gray, Edmund
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Venus with her crown

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The true symptoms of a clap or pox with its cure, by Dr. Rivers; at…

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Symptomes of the pox

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