A treatise of the venereal disease, in six books : containing an account of the original, propagation, and contagion of this distemper in general ; as also of the nature, cause, and cure of all venereal disorders in particular, whether local or universal ; together with an abridgment of the several discourses, which have been written upon this subject from the first appearance of the venereal disease in Europe to this time, with critical remarks upon them / written originally in Latin by John Astruc ... ; and now translated into English by William Barrowby, M.B.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Astruc, Jean, 1684-1766, author.

Contributor:

Barrowby, William, translator.

Series:

Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century.

Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century

Standardized Title:

De morbis venereis. English

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Sexually transmitted diseases--Early works to 1800.

Sexually transmitted diseases.

Sexually transmitted diseases--Bio-bibliography--Early works to 1800.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (2 volumes).

Other Title:

Treatise of the venereal disease,

Treatise of the venereal disease, in six books

Language Note:

In English; translated from the original Latin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Translated from the 1736 Paris Ed. of De Morbis Venereis Libri Sex.

Vol. 1: [4], xv, [13], 482, v, [1] p.; v. 2: [2], 501, [1] p.

Advertisements on p. [1] at end of v. 1 and p. [1] at end of v. 2.

"A chronological index of the authors who have written upon the same": v. 2, p. 221-470.

Printed for W. Innys and R. Manby ... C. Davis ... and J. Clarke.

Reproduction of the originals from New York Academy of Medicine.

OCLC:

1113889369