id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_kna3elxpprhdjfc527qitqs2ye D. Power Clap and the Pox in English Literature 1938 9 .pdf application/pdf 4222 725 92 CLAP AND THE POX IN ENGLISH " Clap" and " the pox " are words of ancient lineage John Arderne, an English surgeon, writing about I376, devotes a chapter to the attacks of venereal disease, and that very likely he had new disease at the end of the sixteenth century, was CLAP AND THE POX IN ENGLISH LITERATITRE of venereal disease, pointing to the physical rather than to the moral disabilities of the clap and pox, which by Newgate, was twelve years a whore, five times a wife, can be men of pleasure; every man may be a rake." This, I think, is the end of venereal disease in literaII2 CLAP AND THE POX IN ENGLISH LITERATURE CLAP AND THE POX IN ENGLISH LITERATURE CLAP AND THE POX IN ENGLISH LITERATURE Clap and pox had become vulgar words and were replaced " Clap and the Pox," so that the old words have come ./cache/work_kna3elxpprhdjfc527qitqs2ye.pdf ./txt/work_kna3elxpprhdjfc527qitqs2ye.txt