BAILLOU, Guillaume de [BALLONIUS] (1538 – 1616)
1538 – 1616
5 entries in the GMN corpus.
1639 CE
#6796
Definitionum medicinarum liber.
A glossary of Hippocratic terms.
1640 CE
#1673
Epidemiorum et ephemeridum libri duo.
A pupil of Fernel, De Baillou was a follower of Hippocrates in his advancement of the doctrine of “epidemic constitutions”. Crookshank regards him as the first modern epidemiologist. This work includes the…
1642 CE
#4485
Liber de rheumatismo et pleuritide dorsale.
De Baillou is usually credited with introducing the term “rheumatism”. He was court physician in Paris at the time of Henri IV. His book, the first on rheumatism, was translated into English by C. C. Barna…
1643 CE
#6014
De virginum et mulierum morbis liber.
1734 CE–1736 CE
#60
Opera medica omnia. 4 vols.
De Baillou, “the first epidemiologist of modern times”, foreshadowed much that was afterwards taught by Sydenham. He first described whooping-cough and is often credit with introducing the term “rheu…