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Entries Tagged as 'codpieces'

The Battle and the Bulge

April 29th, 2010 · 5 Comments

Did the codpiece come into vogue because a bunch of Italian counts were trying to conceal their fights against syphilis? An Australian doctor makes the case: The treatment of the disease was for the most part empirical with multiple agents applied locally, which along with the bulky dressings would give large frontal bulges, impossible to […]

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