The Triumphal Chariot of Antimony, xxiii. 



Twelve Keys, betray the approximate 

 date of his treatise by citations from 

 slightly anterior adepts. On the whole, 

 it is safe to place him at the end of the 

 fifteenth and the beginning of the 

 sixteenth centuries. He had probably 

 passed the prime of life when he entered 

 upon his labours in literature, and a 

 whole century was destined to elapse 

 before any of his works found their way 

 into the hands of the printer. The 

 following bibliographical list, while it 

 includes all his extant treatises, in the 

 matter of the dates appended does not 



1519, Ulrichus de Hutten, a German, discoursed upon a 

 "method of curing the French disease by Guaiacum," fixing 

 1493 for the date, and Naples for the place of its appearance. 

 Joannes Baptista Montanus, 1550, affirms, on the other hand, 

 that it was the soldiers of Columbus who imported the 

 disease from Antigua, and the West India Islands, to the 

 siege of Naples, in 1496. In 1554, Joannes Langius, of 

 Limburg, speaks of the French disease, maintaining that 

 " although some would have it to be a new one," it is " no 

 other than a farrago of diseases known to the ancients." 

 Compare also Bernardinus Tomitanrus, of Padua, 1566 ; 

 Joannes Astruc, De Morbis Venens : Adrianus Tollius ; 

 Herman Boerhaave, etc. See further, John Armstrong's 

 " Synopsis of the HL-tory and Cure of Venereal Diseases," 

 London, 1737, 8vo. 



