BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Historians.
1) Patin, Carol. Eques. D. Marci Paris. primar. Prof. Luem veneream non esse morbum novum; Oratio habita in Archilyceo Patavino die V. Nvbr. 1687. Patavii 1687. 4.
(Patin, Carolus. of Paris, Chevalier of St. Mark, First Prof. of Surgery at Padua, “The Venereal Disease not a new Complaint: Speech delivered in the High Schools of Padua on Nov. 5th 1687.” Padua 1687. 4to.)
Astruc, II. p. 991., knew this Speech only from a citation of Zach. Platner, who equally had not seen it, and supposed it had probably never appeared, since Nic. Comnenus Papadopoli in his “historia gymnasii Patavini” (History of the High School of Padua) Vol. I. sect. 2. ch. 25. No. 159., does not mention it at all, though he cites freely from Patin’s Speeches and his separate Works. Girtanner, II. p. 279., however cites the complete Title as above; and must consequently have seen the book, though he remarks nothing further about its contents than, “He recapitulates the old well-known Reasons for the Antiquity of the Venereal Disease”. For the rest, Patin seems to have taken the main part from the Lettres Choisies, Vol. III, Letter 370, p. 95, of his father Guy Patin, where the latter defends the antiquity of Venereal Disease.
2) Quaestio medica quodlibetarius disputationibus mane discutienda die Jovis 9 Dcbris 1717. M. Johanne Baptista Fausto Alliot de Mussay, Doctore medico praeside. An Morbus antiquus Syphilis? Proponebat Johannes Franciscus Leaulté, Parisinus, Anno R. S. H. 1717. Typis Johann. Quillau, facultatis medicinae Typographi. 8 Blatt. 4.
(“Medical Question to be discussed in open disputation for and against in the morning, Thursday, 9th of December 1717. M. Joannes Baptista Faustus Alliot de Mussay, Doctor of Medicine, presiding:—Is Syphilis an Ancient Disease? Raised by Johannes Franciscus Leaulté of Paris. 1717. Printed by Johann. Quillau, Printer to the Faculty of Medicine. 8 leaves. 4to.)
According to Astruc, II. p. 1054., this Dissertation consists of 8 Corollaries, of which only the fifth seeks to establish the antiquity of Venereal Disease, arguing from: Horace, Odes bk. I. 37. Sat. bk. I. 5. 62 (morbus campanus,—the Campanian disease); Juvenal, Sat II.; Martial, Epigr. bk. I. 66.; Tacitus, Annals bk. IV.; Suetonius, Vita Octav. Augusti ch. 80.; Lucian, Pseudologista; Valerius Maximus, Memorab. bk. III. ch. 5.; Lucius Apuleius, Metamorphos. bk. X. The refutation given by Astruc repeats almost word for word Girtanner vol. II. p. 357-363., though he gives it, as usual, as his own Production.
3) Becket, William. An attempt to prove the Antiquity of the Venereal Disease long before the discovery of the West-Indies. In Philosophical Transactions. Vol. XXX. 1718. No. 357. p. 839.—A letter to Dr. W. Wagstaffe concerning the antiquity of the Venereal Disease. Ibid. Vol. XXXI. 1720. No. 365. p. 47.—A letter to Dr. Halley, in answer to some objections made to the history of the Venereal disease. No. 366. p. 108.
In England Nic. Robinson, “A New Treatise of the Venereal Disease”, in three parts, London 1736. 8 vols., Pt. I. ch. 1., seeks to further confirm the Reasons laid down by Becket for the antiquity of the Disease. According to Astruc, vol. II. p. 1058, Sir Hans Sloane, “Voyage to the Islands of Madeira, Barbadoes, Nevis, St. Christopher and Jamaica, with the Natural History,” London 1707. fol., Vol. I. in the Introduction, pp. 2, 3., would seem to have already indicated the most important passages cited by Becket.
4) Sanchez, (Antonio Nunhez Ribeiro) Dissertation sur l’origine de la maladie vénérienne, pour prouver: que le mal n’est pas venu d’Amérique, mais qu’il a commencé en Europe, par une Epidémie. à Paris chez Durand et Pissot. MDCCLII. 110 S. 8. Reprinted 1765. 12.