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thesaurus--venereal disease and protection

DRURY LANE AGUE. The venereal disorder.
WASP. An infected prostitute, who like a wasp carries a sting in her tail.
TO DOCK. Docked smack smooth; one who has suffered an amputation of his penis, from a venereal complaint. He must go into dock: a sea phrase, signifying that the person spoken of my undergo a salivation. Docking is also a punishment inflicted by sailors on the prostitutes who have infected them with the venereal disease; it sonsists in cutting off all their clothes, petticoat, shift and all, close to their stays, and then turning them into the street. [For all meanings see TO DOCK]
CUNDUM. The dried gut of a sheep, worn by men in the act of coition, to prevent venereal infection; said to have been invented by one colonel Cundum. These machines were long prepared and sold by a matron of the name of Phillips, at the Green Canister, in Half-moon-street, in the Strand. That good lady haing acquired a fortune, retired from business; but learning that the town was not well served by her successors, she, out of a patriotic zeal for the public welfare, returned to her occupation; of which she gave notice by divers hand-bills, in circulation in the year 1776. Also, a false scabbard over a sword, and the oil-skin case for holding the colours of a regiment.
MACHINES. Mrs. Philip's ware. See CUNDUM.