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lock hospital:
Outdated name for a VD clinic.

ETYMOLOGY: A quarantine hospital for the treatment of venereal-diseases, the Lock Lazar-House, in 15 th century Southwark. The term is mentioned by Captain Francis Grose in his Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1811).




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