The sinister shepherd; a translation of Girolamo Fracastoro's Syphilidis
Subtitle: sive, De morbo gallico libri tres
By: by William Van Wyck.
Contributors: Van Wyck, William, 1883-
Publisher: The Primavera press
Published: 1934
Place of publication: Los Angeles
Language: eng
Number of pages: 85
Notes: Author's portrait on t.-p.

"One thousand copies printed by Ward Ritchie, 1934."

"Introduction is a translation of an article by Dr. Albert Garrigues, entitled: Fracastor, chantre de la syphilis, which appeared in Aesculape, number 4, April, 1925."

"The origin of the French disease" (p. 81-85) is from Uldrich von Hutten's De guaia medicina et morbo gallico, Jo Schoeffer, Mainz, 1519, which appeared in Aesculape, vol. 7, no. 4, April, 1926.

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