Author: FRACASTORO, GIROLAMO; VAN WYCK, WILLIAM.
Title: The Sinister Shepherd: A Translation of Girolamo Fracastoro's Syphilidis Sive De Morbo Gallico Libri Tres.
Description: Special Limited Facsimile Edition; Med. 8vo; pp. xxiv, 88, (1); marbled endpapers, 12 b/w. illustrations, bound in full green leather, raised bands, title lettered in gilt on spine, gilt stamped decoration to spine and boards, all edges gilt, original silk page marker, fine copy. New York; The Classics of Medicine Library / Gryphon Editions Ltd.; 1992. This facsimile prepared from the first edition of 1934. The argument over the origin of syphilis -- did Columbus bring it from the new World, or did his sailors take an affliction previously unrecognized in Europe to the natives of the newly discovered lands? -- has yet to be settled. What is indisputable is that the most influential early book on the "French disease" (to use one of its many sobriquets) was written by Girolamo Fracastoro.

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