Volume 1

A treatise on syphilis : historical and practical / by E. Lancereaux ; translated by G. Whitley.

  • Étienne Lancereaux
Date:
1868-1869
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    when that author wrote, lost much of its intensity. Like Fracastor, Guichardin and Ulrich de Hutteu acknowledge the mitigation of the venereal disease, and it would even appear from their account that it did not retain its pestilential character for more than seven years. Most of the syphilographers of the sixteenth century are unani- mous concerning the time of the decrease of syphiHs. Vidus Vidius,* Ant. Musa Brassavole,t François Lopez de Gomora,J G. !Pallope,§ Bernardin TomitanOj|| Levinus Lemnius,^ Alex. Trajan Petronio,** Mercurial, ft Laurent Jo ubert, J { Jean Yarande, § § André Césalpin, 1111 Epiphane ]?erdinand,^1[ Alexandre Déodat,*^* J. S. Yelschius,ttt J. Winell,îJî Thomas Sydenliam,§§§ Jean Deveaux,|| || || record that towards the middle, or at least towards the end, of the sixteenth century, the epidemic form of syphilis had disappeared, and that chiefly in the places of its greatest intensity. We are now acquainted with the different phases of the great epidemic of the fifteenth century, as they are described by contem- porary writers. That this epidemic was of a syphilitic character can scarcely be doubted. Certain authors, however, believed that they * Curation des maladies en général, sect, ii., liv. iii. Florence, 1594 ; Francfort, 1596, in fol. t Tractatus de usu radicis cliinœ, &c., in Aloysi Luisini de morbo gall., &c. Venise, 1566, 1567. X Histoire générale des Indes, 1553. § De morbo gallico tractatus. Padoue, 1584, in 4°; Venise, 1585, in 8°. Il De morbo gallico, liv. ii. p. 2. IT De occultis naiurœ miraculis libri duo, lib. ii. cap. iv. Anvers, 1559, in 12° ; trad, franç., Paris, 1567, in 8°. *• Traité de la vérole, liv. il. chap. xxii. tt Traité de la vérole, chap. ii. Citation de Astruc, p. 357. XI De variola magna sive crassa, 'ca.^. iii. et Hrreurs populaires, &c. Bourdeaux, 1570, in 8°. §§ Tractatus de lue venerea et hepatide. Genève, 1620, in 8°. ; Lyon, 1658, in fol. 1111 Praxis universce artis medicce. Trévise, 1606, in 8°, KIT Centum historiœ seu observ. et casus medici (obs. 17). Venetiis, 1621, in fol. *•• Valetudinarium. Leyde, 1660. t++ Recueil de curaiions et d'observations médicales, obs. 175, cité par Astruc. XXX Traité de la vérole, cité par Astruc. §§§ Epist. secunda responsoria, de lue venerea. Londres, 1680, in 8. mil! Notes added to the French translation of the Latin treatise by Chares Musitan, Sur le mal vénérien, chap. iy. liv., i. Trévoux, 1711.