Aphrodisiacus. Containing a summary of the ancient writers on the venereal disease ... Extracted from the two tomes of Aloysius Luisinus, which by the direction of Dr. Boerhaave, were lately revised and reprinted at Leyden. Together with an index of all others omitted in that collection ... from the beginning of the sixteenth century down to the present time. With a large preface, by Daniel Turner.

Date:: 1736

Credit: Aphrodisiacus. Containing a summary of the ancient writers on the venereal disease ... Extracted from the two tomes of Aloysius Luisinus, which by the direction of Dr. Boerhaave, were lately revised and reprinted at Leyden. Together with an index of all others omitted in that collection ... from the beginning of the sixteenth century down to the present time. With a large preface, by Daniel Turner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$I cannot chufe but think it an Omillion in this Revifal of thefe ancient Writers , that no Care was taken about the Dates of their firft Publications, which might have guided us to the Time of Precedency the one of the other. That little Afliftance I got herein, (for I had not feen Dr. Aftruc9s Treatife till molt of thefe Sheets were printed off) was from Vander Linden, who takes Notice of fome of their Editions, but refejrs generally to the two ancient Tomes De Morbo Gallico; which whether or no therein enter’d, I am altogether uncertain^ who have never feen them neither. But as to what I call the principal Part$31 have fqmewhat farther to obferve : And firft, as to the Rife ox Origin; where, thp? all feem to agree that it broke out at the Clofe of the fourteenth Century, i. e. between the Years 1492. and £4. when the French were making Spoil in Italy, and befieging Naples ; yet they vary as to the Cauf: One Party alledging it to be the Effect of a Sidenal Influx, or a ConpinBion of certain \Planets, which happen’d fome Time before, as a Prelage of this Calamity, and whole malevolent Afpeft had this Ef~ 5 fe<^$

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