Syphilis ou le mal Vénérien, poeme Latin de Jerome Fracastor avec la Traduction en Françaism, & des Notes

by P. Marquer and J. Lacombe by Jerome Fracastor, later Hieronymus Fracastorius Girolamo

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First edition

First Edition in French. Latin & French text, engraved vignette on title, 200, 4 pp. 12mo. Green moderrn marbled boards. Title-page backed. Baumgartner & Fulton 85. Item #378458 Fracastor was a physician, poet, and scientist and was the first person to give syphilis a nameThe name syphilis was created by the Italian doctor and poet Fracastoro in his 1530 poem, Syphilis sive morbus gallicus

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