De morbo Gallico. A treatise of the French disease, publish'd above 200 years past / by Sir Ulrich Hutten ... Translated soon after into English by a canon of Marten-Abbye [T. Paynell]. Now again revised and recommended to the press, with a preface to the same, and a letter at the close, to Mr. James Fern, surgeon, concerning a very singular suppos'd infection. By Daniel Turner.

  • Hutten, Ulrich von, 1488-1523
Date:
1730
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Credit: De morbo Gallico. A treatise of the French disease, publish'd above 200 years past / by Sir Ulrich Hutten ... Translated soon after into English by a canon of Marten-Abbye [T. Paynell]. Now again revised and recommended to the press, with a preface to the same, and a letter at the close, to Mr. James Fern, surgeon, concerning a very singular suppos'd infection. By Daniel Turner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE P R E F A C T O T H E READER. 3^fl$ now almoft thirty Tears paff fines / hap- J. pened to meet with this little Treatife of the French Difeafe. With the perufal of which {after I had made myfelf Mafter of the old Engliffi Let ter i the Ortnography then in ufe, and many obfolete Wirds and Phrafes~\ 1 was fo well plea fed, that finding my Enquiry vain after the original Latin, of which this was only a Tranflation, / re* folded to tranfcribe the fame for my own particular Satisfaction, leaving out fome of thofe ant lent Words, yet fiill retaining others of them, for the Clamour fake, I think, as much as any things and putting the Tranfiators Senfe into our modern Idiom. The Book which I thus copyed, was printed in the Tear iy'JJ. how long after the Latin Edition lcan¬ not fay, having never feen one* The Title Page was worn off, or torn, as well as part of the Dedica¬ tion and Preface. By what remained of the f ormer, I found it was infcribed to the moft Illuftrious Car- dinal Albert, Electoral Prince of Germany, Archbifhop of Mogunce [ now called Mentz] A z Mentz