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410 MISCELLANEOUS. sVenice; 1497.
in vol. i. p. 67, of the former work; 4to edit.:—but our business is
with the impression before us.
The recto of the first leaf presents us only with the title, thus:
Libellus tie Epidemia, quam
uulgo morbum Galli
cum uocant.
The reverse is blank. The recto and reverse of a ii, are occupied by
the prefatory address of the author to the * illustrious John Francis
Mirandula.’ On the recto of the third leaf, a iii, is the commencement
of the work, having this prefix :
De Epidemia, quam Xtali morbum gallicu. Galli
uero Neapolitanum uocant. Nicolai Leoniceni
Vincentini liber.
From the bottom of this page, and from the greater part of the following
page, I extract the ensuing; which seems worthy of the reader’s
attention:
------- Huic
tamen morbo nondum nostri temporis medici uerum nome imposuere,
sed uulgato nomine malum gallicum uocant, quasi eius cotagio a gallis
in italiam importato, ut eodem tempore & morbo ipso & Gallorum
armis Italia insestata. No defuere quidem, qui eundem cum illo
putarint, quem prisci elephatiasin nominarunt, sicuti alii morbum
Gallicum esse antiquis lichenas, alii asaphati, alii prunam, siue carbonem,
alii ignem persicum, siue sacrum existimamnt. Quae quidem ambi-
guitas nominum, & de re ipsa quoque dissensio nmltos suspicari fecit
nouam hanc esse luem nuquam a ueteribus uisam, atque ideo h nullo
medico uel graeco, uel arabe, inter alia morborum genera, tactam.
Ego sicuti neque illis assentior, qui uarias huic morbo indidere
appellationes liaudquaquam eius naturae congruentes, ita ubi considero
liis day; and was Ihe sirst who, surrendering a blind attachment to the dictates of Aristotle
and Pliny.thought for himself, as his own experience, and the symptoms of thecase, suggested.
He was in consecjuence equully successsul and popular. Bayle hints at a strange story of his
intention to put an end to his existence at the age of 31; but his extreme longevity shews
that he was afterwards not' often troubled with such absurd fits of despondency. He was
the friend of a great number of the most ceiebrated statesmen and scholars in Europe;
and ranked Cardinal Bembo, Pope Leo X., and Erasmus, among his correspondents, See
Angioigabriello.
in vol. i. p. 67, of the former work; 4to edit.:—but our business is
with the impression before us.
The recto of the first leaf presents us only with the title, thus:
Libellus tie Epidemia, quam
uulgo morbum Galli
cum uocant.
The reverse is blank. The recto and reverse of a ii, are occupied by
the prefatory address of the author to the * illustrious John Francis
Mirandula.’ On the recto of the third leaf, a iii, is the commencement
of the work, having this prefix :
De Epidemia, quam Xtali morbum gallicu. Galli
uero Neapolitanum uocant. Nicolai Leoniceni
Vincentini liber.
From the bottom of this page, and from the greater part of the following
page, I extract the ensuing; which seems worthy of the reader’s
attention:
------- Huic
tamen morbo nondum nostri temporis medici uerum nome imposuere,
sed uulgato nomine malum gallicum uocant, quasi eius cotagio a gallis
in italiam importato, ut eodem tempore & morbo ipso & Gallorum
armis Italia insestata. No defuere quidem, qui eundem cum illo
putarint, quem prisci elephatiasin nominarunt, sicuti alii morbum
Gallicum esse antiquis lichenas, alii asaphati, alii prunam, siue carbonem,
alii ignem persicum, siue sacrum existimamnt. Quae quidem ambi-
guitas nominum, & de re ipsa quoque dissensio nmltos suspicari fecit
nouam hanc esse luem nuquam a ueteribus uisam, atque ideo h nullo
medico uel graeco, uel arabe, inter alia morborum genera, tactam.
Ego sicuti neque illis assentior, qui uarias huic morbo indidere
appellationes liaudquaquam eius naturae congruentes, ita ubi considero
liis day; and was Ihe sirst who, surrendering a blind attachment to the dictates of Aristotle
and Pliny.thought for himself, as his own experience, and the symptoms of thecase, suggested.
He was in consecjuence equully successsul and popular. Bayle hints at a strange story of his
intention to put an end to his existence at the age of 31; but his extreme longevity shews
that he was afterwards not' often troubled with such absurd fits of despondency. He was
the friend of a great number of the most ceiebrated statesmen and scholars in Europe;
and ranked Cardinal Bembo, Pope Leo X., and Erasmus, among his correspondents, See
Angioigabriello.