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lock hospital
15. Originally: a hospital at Southwark in London, used for the isolation and treatment first of persons with leprosy and later of those with sexually transmitted diseases, esp. syphilis. In later use also: any hospital used for the treatment of persons with sexually transmitted diseases. In later use frequently attributive, esp. in lock hospital. Also with capital initial. Now historical.
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the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > hospital for venereal disease or yaws
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1359 in R. R. Sharpe Cal. Wills Court of Husting (1890) II. 13 (MED) [The lepers at] le lokes [near Bermondeseye].
1375 in R. R. Sharpe Cal. Let.-bks. London (1907) H. 9 (MED) [William Cook,] forman [at] le loke [..sworn to prevent lepers from entering the City].
1598 J. Stow Suruay of London 344 Then in Kent streete is a Lazer house, for Leprous people: called the Loke in Southwarke.
1691 R. Ames Female Fire-ships 18 Would you a Miserable Scene survey, Step to the Lock in Southwark any day, Where you will with a kind of Horror view, Clapt Sparks in Fluxes, Penitently stew.
1722 Philos. Trans. 1720–21 (Royal Soc.) 31 60 In 1452, in the Will of Ralph Holland, Merchant Taylor, registred in the Prerogative Office, mention is made but of 3 [Lazar-Houses], which, with his Legacies to them, are as follow: Item lego Leprosis de Lokes, extra Barram Sti Georgii 20 s.[etc.]
1753 T. Smollett Ferdinand Count Fathom II. lii. 147 To erect an hospital, lock, or infirmary, by the voluntary subscription of his friends.
1766 J. Entick Surv. London in New Hist. London IV. 444 There is a lock hospital for venereal complaints.
1825 G. N. Wright Hist. Guide Dublin (ed. 2) 215 Westmorland Lock Hospital, Townsend-street.—This hospital was opened 20th November, 1792, for the reception of venereal patients of both sexes.
1869 E. A. Parkes Man. Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 501 Certified Lock Hospitals are provided for her treatment.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 489 Mary Shortall that was in the lock with the pox.
2005 Isis 96 118/2 Revising previous accounts—which suggested that no treatment was offered until the Lock Hospital opened its doors in the 1740s—Siena finds lots of ways that the poxed could find treatment.
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