Historical Bibliography Updated: September 29, 2019

Aphrodisiacus. Containing a summary of the ancient writers on the venereal disease ... Extracted from the two tomes of Aloysius Luisinus, which by the direction of Dr. Boerhaave, were lately revised and reprinted at Leyden. Together with an index of all others omitted in that collection ... from the beginning of the sixteenth century down to the present time. With a large preface, by Daniel Turner.

TURNER, Daniel (1667 – 1742) Munk's Roll, Royal College of Physicians

Publication Details

London: John Clarke, 1736 CE.

A partial English translation of Luisinus's, De morbo gallico omnia quae extant (1566-67) as expanded by Boerhaave (1728). Digital facsimile of the 1736 work from the Internet Archive at this link.

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Plagues & Epidemics

Thematic Classifications

INFECTIOUS DISEASE › SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES INFECTIOUS DISEASE › SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES › Syphilis INFECTIOUS DISEASE › SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES › Syphilis › History of Syphilis

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Entry Number	#10978
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Author Bio Link	Munk's Roll, Royal College of Physicians ↗
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Geographic Context

Publication place: London