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The French disease in literature

Steven Wilson: The language of disease: writing syphilis in nineteenth-century France. Cambridge: Modern Humanities Research Association, Legenda, 2020, 145 pp, $99 HB

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Wenger, A. The French disease in literature. Metascience 31, 65–68 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-021-00711-7

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