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IN the introduction to this scholarly work, which admirably illustrates the close relation of medicine with literature, Mr. James Johnston Abraham, who is not only a well-known specialist in venereal diseases but also a writer of distinction, gives a short sketch of the life and times of Fracastor, and the origin and treatment of syphilis from the time of Fracastor until the present day.
Fracastor: Syphilis, or the French Disease; a Poem in Latin Hexameters
By Girolamo Fracastoro. With a Translation, Notes and Appendix by Heneage Wynne-Finch. Pp. vii + 253 + 4 plates. (London: William Heine-mann (Medical Books), Ltd., 1935.) 10s. 6d. net.
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Fracastor's Poem on Syphilis. Nature 136, 586 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136586a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/136586a0