The "De morbo quem gallicum nuncupant" (1497) of Coradinus Gilinus / by Cyril C. Barnard.

  • Cyril Cuthbert Barnard
Date:
1930
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Credit: The "De morbo quem gallicum nuncupant" (1497) of Coradinus Gilinus / by Cyril C. Barnard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE „DE MORBO QUEM GALLICUM NUNCUPANT” [1497] OF CORADINUS GILINUS BY CYRIL C. BARNARD London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Of the author of this little treatise on syphilis, CoRADlNUS GlLINUS, Doctor of Arts and Medicine, practically nothing is known. Even the vernacular form of his name is uncertain, for it is given by DE Renzi [8] as CORRADINO Ghilino, but Sudhoff [1] gives it with a soft initial „g”, CORRADINO GiLlNO. His work is addressed to Duke SlGlSMONDO d’Este, who was the son of Ercole L, Duke of Ferrara and Modena. The latter lived from 1433 to 1504. In all probability our author too was an inhabitant of Ferrara, for his book seems to have been printed there and in the text!) he refers to certain disputations which are undoubtedly those held in the College of Ferrara, one of them the well-known work of NlCCOLo LEONICENO [17], the venerable Professor of Medicine in that city. SUDHOFF [1] surmises for not very obvious reasons that GHILINO was still a young man at the time he wrote his treatise. The style of his writing may perhaps suggest youth¬ fulness, but his complete adherence to the mediaeval doctrines in astrology and physiology might just as well suggest that he was an old man unwilling to accept the new ideas of Count Giovanni Pico della Mirandola [26] and Niccolo Leoni- CENO [25], who had only a few years before challenged the [8], [1] The numbers in square brackets refer to the Bibliography at the end of this’ article.(bee page 102, line 13