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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.

Author/creator Astruc, Jean, 1684-1766 author.
Other author/creatorBarrowby, William, translator.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication Info London : [publisher not identified], 1737.
Description1 online resource (2 volumes).
Supplemental Content Gale, Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century
Supplemental Content Gale, Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century
Subject(s)
Uniform titleDe morbis venereis. English
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. UNAUTHORIZED
General noteTranslated from the 1736 Paris Ed. of De Morbis Venereis Libri Sex.
General noteVol. 1: [4], xv, [13], 482, v, [1] p.; v. 2: [2], 501, [1] p.
General noteAdvertisements on p. [1] at end of v. 1 and p. [1] at end of v. 2.
General note"A chronological index of the authors who have written upon the same": v. 2, p. 221-470.
General notePrinted for W. Innys and R. Manby ... C. Davis ... and J. Clarke.
General noteReproduction of the originals from New York Academy of Medicine.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LanguageIn English; translated from the original Latin.