SPECIAL COLLECTIONS UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW
A catalogue of rare syphilis books held in the Special Collections Department of the University of Glasgow.
https://www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_389083_smxx.pdf Describes and illustrates in color over 200 rare books from the 15th century to 1820, including those in the Hunterian Collection, with links to more extensive online …
GMN 13552 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15829
1736 TURNER, Daniel (1667 – 1742)
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.
A partial English translation of Luisinus's, De morbo gallico omnia quae extant (1566-67) as expanded by Boerhaave (1728). Digital facsimile of the 1736 work from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10978 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13174
1843 FUCHS, Conrad Heinrich (1803 – 1855)
Die ältesten Schriftseller über die Lustseuche in Deutschland, von 1495 bis 1510.
Gives texts of German tracts on syphilis published between 1495 and 1510.
GMN 2420 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3637
1845 ROSENBAUM, Julius (1807 – 1874)
Geschichte der Lustseuche. Erster Theil. Die Lustseuche im Alterthume.
French translation, 1847; English translation as The plague of lust, being a history of venereal disease in classical antiquity, and including: Detailed investigations into the cult of Venus, and phallic worship, brot…
GMN 2421 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2880
1866 LANCEREAUX, Étienne (1829 – 1910)
Traité historique et pratique de la syphilis.
A complete review of contemporary knowledge. English translation, 2 vols., 1868-69.
GMN 2390.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3317
1891 –1895 BURET, Frédéric
Syphilis today and among the ancients. 2 vols.
GMN 2422 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2881
1901 –1911 BLOCH, Iwan (Ivan) (1872 – 1922)
Der Ursprung der Syphilis. 2 pts.
Bloch was a chief modern supporter of the theory of the Columbian origin of syphilis.
GMN 2423 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2882
1912 SUDHOFF, Karl Friedrich Jakob (1853 – 1938)
Aus der Frühgeschichte der Syphilis.
Sudhoff believed in the pre-Columbian existence of syphilis.
GMN 2424 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2883
1912 SUDHOFF, Karl Friedrich Jakob (1853 – 1938)
Mal Franzoso in Italien in der ersten Hälfte des 15. Jahrhunderts.
Forms Heft 5 of K. Sudhoff & G. Sticker: Zur historischen Biologie der Krankheitserreger.
GMN 2425 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3650
1923 DOHI, Keizo (1866 – 1931)
Beiträge zur Geschichte der Syphilis: insbesondere über ihren Ursprung und ihre Pathologie in Ostasien.
Gives, in an appendix, a list of writers on syphilis from 1495 to 1829. Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
GMN 2426 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2884
1925 SUDHOFF, Karl Friedrich Jakob (1853 – 1938); SINGER, Charles Joseph (1876 – 1960)
The earliest printed literature on syphilis. Being ten tractates from the years 1495-98
GMN 2427 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2886
1931 JEANSELME, Antoine Edouard (1858 – 1935)
Histoire de la syphilis.
Forms tome I of Traité de la syphilis, ed. by E. Jeanselme and E. Shulmann.
GMN 2428 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2885
1933 PUSEY, William Allen (1865 – 1940)
The history and epidemiology of syphilis.
GMN 2429 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3651
1935 FLECK, Ludwik (1896 – 1961)
Entstehung und Entwicklung einer wissenschaftlichen Tatsache. Einführung in die Lehre vom Denkstil und Denkkollektiv.
A very thorough history of the discovery of the Wasserman reaction, and its acceptance by the scientific community. English translation: Genesis and development of a scientific fact, Chicago, Univ. of Chicago Press, 1…
GMN 2429.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2887
1937 HOLCOMBE, Richmond Cranston (1874 – 1945)
Who gave the world syphilis? The Haitian myth.
GMN 2430 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2888
1940 WHITWELL, James Richard (1863 – 1945)
Syphilis in earlier days.
GMN 2431 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2889
1944 GOODMAN, Herman (1894 – 1971)
Notable contributors to the knowledge of syphilis.
GMN 2432 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2890
1954 SCHÖNFELD, Walther Heinrich Paul (1888 – 1977)
Kurze Geschichte der Dermatologie und Venereologie und ihre kulturgeschichtliche Spiegelung.
GMN 4158.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5933
1962 DENNIE, Charles Clayton (1883 – 1971)
A history of syphilis.
GMN 2432.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2891
1981 CRISSEY, John Thorne (1924 – 2009); PARISH, Lawrence Charles
The dermatology and syphilology of the nineteenth century.
A scholarly work written in a particularly entertaining style.
GMN 4158.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5938
1981 JONES, James H. (1943 – )
Bad blood: The Tuskegee syphilis experiment.
"From 1932 to 1972, the United States Public Health Service conducted a non-therapeutic experiment involving over 400 black male sharecroppers infected with syphilis. The Tuskegee Study had nothing to do with treatmen…
GMN 8091 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10267
1986 QUÉTEL, Claude (1939 – )
Le mal de Naples. Histoire de la syphilis.
Translated into English by Judith Braddock and Brian Pike as The history of syphilis (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992).
GMN 8743 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10921
2000 REVERBY, Susan Mokotoff (1946 – )
Tuskegee's truths: Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. Edited by Susan M. Reverby.
GMN 12328 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14552
2004 DUTOUR, Olivier; PÁLFI, György; BERATO, Jacques; BRUN, Jean-Pierre
L’origine de la syphilis en Europe: Avant ou après 1493? / The origin of syphilis in Europe: Before or after 1493? Proceedings of an international colloquium, Toulon, France, 25–28 November 1993. Edited by Olivier Dutour, György Pálfi, Jacques Berato, and Jean-Pierre Brun.
The occasion of this meeting was the discovery in 1989 near Hyères (Var, France) of a human skeleton of the third or fourth century CE presenting lesions similar to those of syphilis. The volume contains fifty papers …
GMN 14086 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16397
2008 PARASCANDOLA, John (1941 – )
Sex, sin, and science: A history of syphilis in America.
GMN 12214 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14425
2011 HARPER, Kristin N.; ZUCKERMAN, Molly K.; HARPER, Megan L.; ARMELAGOS, George J. (1936 – 2014); KINGSTON, John D.
The origin and antiquity of syphilis revisited: An Appraisal of Old World pre‐Columbian evidence for treponemal infection.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Harper, Zuckerman, Harper, Kingston, Armelagos. Abstract: "For nearly 500 years, scholars have argued about the origin and antiquity of syphilis. Did Columbus bring the…
GMN 12080 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14289
2015 MROCZKOWSKI, Tomasz F.
History, sex and syphilis: Famous syphilitics and their private lives.
GMN 8800 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10978
2017 PIETRZAK-FRANGER, Monika
Syphilis in Victorian literature and culture: Medicine, knowledge and the spectacle of invisibility.
GMN 13910 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16203
