CAIUS, John [Johannes Caius; born John Kays] (1510 – 1573)
1510 – 1573
2 entries in the GMN corpus.
1552 CE
#5522
A boke, or conseill against the disease commonly called the sweate, or sweatyng sicknesse.
First English book on sweating sickness, and the first devoted to a single disease to be published in England. Caius’s work appeared a year after the last epidemic visit of the disease. From it we learn that the…
1570 CE
#9203
De canibus Britannicis liber unus. De rariorum animalium et stirpium historia, liber unus. De libris propriis, liber unus.
Caius, a pioneer naturalist as well as a physician, corresponded with Conrad Gessner, with whom he had made friends while returning from Padua. Caius wrote this study of British dogs to send to Gessner as a contributi…