Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 334

GABRIEL FALLOPIUS (1523-1562) De morbo Galllico [sic]. . . . Additus etiam est in calce De morbo Gallico tractatus, Antonii Fracanciani. Apud Lucam Bertellum & socios 1563 (colophon dated 1564) [4] 64, 16 [2] ll. 20.3 cm.

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In this classic work on "the French disease," Fallopius wrote more knowingly of the Europe-wide scourge of syphilis than previous authors on the subject and was one of the first to oppose the use of mercury in its treatment. Antonio Fracanzano (d. 1567), a teacher of Fallopius at Padua and later his colleague there, contributed a short tract to this work on syphilis published in the year after Fallopius' death.

Cited references: Durling 1433 (1564 ed.); Garrison-Morton 2370; Waller 2928; Wellcome 2152

Gift of John Martin, M.D.