Sexuality : an illustrated history representing the sexual in medicine and culture from the Middle Ages to the age of AIDS / Sander L. Gilman.

Itch, clap, pox : venereal disease in the eighteenth-century imagination / Noelle Gallagher.

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Sexuality : an illustrated history representing the sexual in medicine and culture from the Middle Ages to the age of AIDS / Sander L. Gilman.

Itch, clap, pox : venereal disease in the eighteenth-century imagination / Noelle Gallagher.