In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, venereal disease, or the ‚pox,‘ was a dreaded diagnosis. This remarkable history invites readers into the teeming, pox-riddled streets of everyday early modern London, uncovering the lives of the poxed elite as well as of the maidservants and prostitutes who left few words behind.
The Dreaded Pox – Olivia Weisser
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In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, venereal disease, or the ‚pox,‘ was a dreaded diagnosis. This remarkable history invites readers into the teeming, pox-riddled streets of everyday early modern London, uncovering the lives of the…
