Venereal disease, hospitals, and the urban poor : London's "foul wards," 1600-1800 / Kevin P. Siena.

Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2004.

viii, 367 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-360) and index.

The foul disease, privacy, and the medical marketplace -- The foul disease in the royal hospitals: the seventeenth century -- The foul disease in the royal hospitals: the eighteenth century -- The foul disease and the Poor Law: workhouse medicine in the eighteenth century -- The foul disease and moral reform? the Lock Hospital -- Rethinking the Lock Hospital -- Conclusion: poverty and the pox in early modern London.