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<dl><dd>De ligni sancti / by Alfonso Ferri was first printed in Rome, 1537</dd>
<dd>De ligni sancti / by Alfonso Ferri and Syphilis, sive Morbvs gallicus / by Girolamo Fracastoro were first issued together in Paris, 1539</dd>
<dd>Another edition was printed in Paris, by Jean Foucher, in the same year</dd>
<dd>"Hieronymi Frascatorii Syphilis, sive Morbvs gallicvs", p. [18-71], has divisional title page, is in verse, and includes several American references including that of the healing powers of Guaiac wood. This work was first printed in Verona, 1530</dd>
<dd>Signatures: A-R⁸ (A1, R8 versos blank)</dd>
<dd>Errors in paging: p. 194 misbumbered 94</dd>
<dd>Includes index</dd>
<dd>Woodcut initials</dd>
<dd>Waring, E.J. Bibliotheca therapeutica</dd>
<dd>Catalogue of printed books in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library</dd>
<dd>Adams, H.M. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge libraries</dd>
<dd>European Americana</dd>
<dd>John Carter Brown Library copy quarter bound in contemporary vellum spine with marbled boards</dd>
<dd>John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Harper Fund</dd>
<dd>Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Medical Sociiety of the County of Kings September 1900: folded bookplate on front pastedown</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Syphilis; Syphilis; Guaiac; Medicine; Imprint 1542</div>
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<dl><dd>Ferri, Alfonso, 1500-1595</dd>
<dd>Fracastoro, Girolamo, 1478-1553. Syphilis</dd>
<dd>Medical Sociiety of the County of Kings. fmo RIBRL</dd></dl></div>
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