Alfonsi Ferri neapolitani medici eminentissimi, Pauli III. Pont. Maximi chirurgi primarii, De ligni sancti multiplici medicina, & vini exhibitione, libri quatuor
Subtitle: Quibus nunc primum additus est Hieronymi Fracastorii Syphilis, siue Morbus gallicus. Indice rerum pr[a]ecipue obseruandaru[m] adiecto
Contributors: Fracastoro, Girolamo, 1478-1553; Medical Sociiety of the County of Kings
Edition: Omnia multo emendatiora quàm antea.
Publisher: Apud Viuantium Gautherot sub intersignio sancti Martini, in via Iacobaea. Cum privilegio.
Published: 1542
Place of publication: Parisiis
Language: lat
Number of pages: 201
Subjects: Guaiac; Medicine; Poetry; Syphilis
Other titles: Alfonsi Ferri neapolitani medici eminentissimi, Pauli III. Pont. Maximi chirurgi primarii, De ligni sancti multiplici medicina, et vini exhibitione, libri quatuor.; De ligni sancti multiplici medicina, & vini exhibitione, libri quatuor.; De ligni sancti multiplici medicina, et vini exhibitione, libri quatuor.
Work titles: De ligni sancti
Notes: De ligni sancti / by Alfonso Ferri was first printed in Rome, 1537.

De ligni sancti / by Alfonso Ferri and Syphilis, sive Morbvs gallicus / by Girolamo Fracastoro were first issued together in Paris, 1539.

Another edition was printed in Paris, by Jean Foucher, in the same year.

"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.

Signatures: A-R⁸ (A1, R8 versos blank)

Errors in paging: p. 194 misbumbered 94.

Includes index.

Woodcut initials.

Waring, E.J. Bibliotheca therapeutica, p. 464.

Catalogue of printed books in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library, I:2242.

Adams, H.M. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge libraries, F-309.

European Americana 542/8.

John Carter Brown Library copy quarter bound in contemporary vellum spine with marbled boards.

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

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Medical Sociiety of the County of Kings September 1900: folded bookplate on front pastedown.