Mentagra. Mentagra, sive Tractatus excellens de causis preseruatiuis, regimine, et cura morbi gallici
Subtitle: siue (ut Galli dicu[n]t) neapolitani: capita. xvij. ac recepta quinq[ue] necno[n] varia vngue[n]ta continens: ingenio, peritia, et experie[n]tijs artiu[s] et medicine doctoris studij Bonome[n]sis aprobatissimi
By: Uue[n]delini Hock de Brackenau, exactissimis studio, et diligentia comportatus. Ejusde[m] perutilis tractatus de curandis vlceribus hunc morbu[m], vt plurimu[m] conseque[n]tibus: capita vi. complecte[n]s. Autoris co[n]clusio ad illustrissimu[m] ducatus Uuirte[m]bergen[n]. pri[n]cipe[m] Udalricu[m]. Index contentorum in hisce tractatibus, Mentagre, et curandorum ulcerum iuxta seriem alphabeti. 1529
Publisher: Bartholomei Trot in aedibus Antonij Bla[n]chardi]
Published: 1529
Place of publication: [Lugduni [Lyons]
Language: lat
Number of pages: 65
Subjects: Sexually transmitted diseases; Treatment; Syphilis
Other titles: Mentagra.; Tractatus excellens de causis preseruatiuis, regimine, et cura morbi gallici.; Tractatus excellens de causis preservativis, regimine, et cura morbi gallici.
Notes: The word "Mentagra" is printed once in red in a larger type followed by the same word in black in a smaller type on title page.

First printed in Strasbourg, 1514.

Colophon reads: Tracatus mentagre cura[n]doru[m]q[ue] ulcerus: editi p[er] We[n]delinu[s] Hock de Brachenau, artium et medicine doctores finiu[n]t: Lugduni sumptu honesti viri Bartholomei Trot in edibus [sic] Antonij Bla[n]chardi excusi anno a virginis partu M. D. xxix. die. iiij. mensis Januarij.

Concerning the appearence of Syphillis or "the French disease", which was supposedly brought back to Europe with the sailors on the voyages of Christopher Columbus; also gives information on the treatment of the disease.

Signatures: A-H⁸ I⁴

Text in black letter type.

Includes index.

Title page printed in red and black in ornamental woodcut border; initials.

Cf. Leclerc, C. Bib. Americana, 3265 (Strasbourg, 1514 edition)

European Americana 529/8a.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full limp vellum.

John Carter Brown Library copy has contemporary annotations in an unknown hand; rublicated initial "O" on leaf 2 recto is hand-colored in blue.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Sophia Augusta Brown Fund.