Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 196

NICCOLò MASSA (1489-1569). Liber de morbo Gallico Liber de morbo Gallico. In aedibus Francisci Bindoni ac Maphei Pasini socii 1536 52 ll. (last blank). 20.8 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 195

In this second edition, Massa opens the book with a long letter to fellow physician Thomas Cademustus (fl. 1500), who was physician to Pope Paul III, in which he discusses syphilis and some of the cures Massa found useful in his practice. John Freind in his History of physick (see No. 778) quotes from this edition concerning the symptoms of syphilis and states that "the best Writer, I mean the person who seems to have the most experience, and to understand what he writes of best, is Nicolaus Massa; who was besides, one of the most skillful Anatomists of that age" (Vol. II, p. 371-2).

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Cited references: Cushing M178; Durling 2993; Garrison-Morton 2365 (1527 ed.); Osler 3341; Waller 6300; Wellcome 4102 (1532 ed.)

Gift of John Martin, M.D.