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WILLIAM RENWICK RIDDELL, LL.D., F.R.H.S., F.R.S.C.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1930;22(3):430-461.

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Sebastian Brant, the humanist, who with Erasmus and Vives formed the Triumvirate of the Renaissance in Middle Europe, and who was by no means the least learned or least renowned of the three, published at Basel, in November, 1496, the first work in which the new and fearful Disease, the Morbus Gallicus, was mentioned, a broadside in verse, entitled "De Pestilentiali Scorra sive Impetiginé Anni XCVI," of which I have given a translation in the ARCHIVES OF DERMATOLOGY AND SYPHILOLOGY.¹

In the following month, Joseph Griinpeck, of Burckhausen (born in 1473), who does not seem to have been a physician, published at Augsburg,² his "Tractatus de pestilentiali scorra sive Mala de Franzos," which under this name purported to be a commentary on Brant's poem. He is unknown to fame, being known only by this treatise. His name does not appear in Chalmers' or any of the standard biographies, . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
President, Canadian Social Hygiene Council TORONTO, CANADA

Footnotes
Submitted for publication, Feb. 6, 1930.

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