FRACASTORO, Girolamo (1478-1553) Syphilis, sive morbus gallicus. - Basel, (Johann Babel), 1536
Small 8vo. 18th century vellum, red leather label on spine. Printer's device on title. (56) pp.
Fourth edition of «the most famous of all medical poems». Fracastoro, the eminent physicist, geologist, astronomer and pathologist, «epitomized contemporary knowledge of syphilis, gave to it its present name, and recognized a venereal cause» (Garrison & M. 2364, 1st edn.: Verona 1530). Durling 1643. Baumgartner & Fulton, Fracastoro, 4.
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