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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.

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.

Catalog MetadataReference Information
Entry Number#10978
Permanent Linkhttps://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/13174
Author Bio LinkMunk's Roll, Royal College of Physicians ↗
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Geographic Context

Publication place: London