Degrees and Symptoms of the Venereal Disease

Degrees and Symptoms of the Venereal Disease John Marten or Martin was a popular writer on medical matters and a quack doctor. Foxon notes that there was an early prosecution of the author ‘being evil disposed and wickedly intending to corrupt the subjects of the Lady the Queene…’ (1963a: 31). Much of the material was borrowed from earlier works by Sinibaldus’s Geneanthropeiae (1642) and Venette’s Tableau de l’amour (1687). Text from A Treatise of all the Degrees and Symptoms of the Venereal Disease (1708).