Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 114.5

JOANNES JACOBI (d. 1384) A litil boke the whiche traytied and reherced many gode thinges necessaries for the ... pestilence The University Press 1910 xxxvi pages, 1 leaf, facsim.: 18 unnumbered pages 24 cm

Osler states that “the original was the first medical book printed in England, by Willelmus de Machlinia. This tract on the plague was written about 1357, and its authorship has been argued. Jacobi, contemporary of Guy de Chauliac, was a papal physician in Montpelier. The editor of this book, Guthrie Vine, ascribes the authorship to Bengt Knutsson, Bishop of Vasteras, Sweden. Vine’s introduction gives a good, brief historical survey of the plague (black death, sweating sickness, etc.) The reproduction of the manuscript pages is very clear, and the old English text easily read.

Cited references: Cushing J13; Garrison-Morton 5115; Osler 3084; Waller 5096

Gift of John Martin M.D.