(_Patin, Carolus._ of Paris, Chevalier of St. Mark, First Prof. of Surgery at Padua, “The Venereal Disease not a new Complaint: Speech delivered in the High Schools of Padua on Nov. 5th 1687.” Padua 1687. 4to.) _Astruc_, II. p. 991., knew this Speech only from a citation of _Zach. Platner_, who equally had not seen it, and supposed it had probably never appeared, since _Nic. Comnenus Papadopoli_ in his “historia gymnasii Patavini” (History of the High School of Padua) Vol. I. sect. 2. ch. 25. No. 159., does not mention it at all, though he cites freely from _Patin’s_ Speeches and his separate Works. _Girtanner_, II. p. 279., however cites the complete Title as above; and must consequently have seen the book, though he remarks nothing further about its contents than, “He recapitulates the old well-known Reasons for the Antiquity of the Venereal Disease”. For the rest, _Patin_ seems to have taken the main part from the _Lettres Choisies_, Vol. III, Letter 370, p. 95, of his father _Guy Patin_, where the latter defends the antiquity of Venereal Disease. 2) Quaestio medica quodlibetarius disputationibus mane discutienda die Jovis 9 Dcbris 1717. _M. Johanne Baptista Fausto Alliot de Mussay_, Doctore medico praeside. _An Morbus antiquus Syphilis?_ Proponebat _Johannes Franciscus Leaulté_, Parisinus, Anno R. S. H. 1717. Typis Johann. Quillau, facultatis medicinae Typographi. 8 Blatt. 4. (“Medical Question to be discussed in open disputation for and against in the morning, Thursday, 9th of December 1717. _M. Joannes Baptista Faustus Alliot de Mussay_, Doctor of Medicine, presiding:—_Is Syphilis an Ancient Disease?_ Raised by _Johannes Franciscus Leaulté_ of Paris. 1717. Printed by Johann. Quillau, Printer to the Faculty of Medicine. 8 leaves. 4to.) According to _Astruc_, II. p. 1054., this Dissertation consists of 8 Corollaries, of which only the fifth seeks to establish the antiquity of Venereal Disease, arguing from: _Horace_, Odes bk. I. 37. Sat. bk. I. 5. 62 (morbus campanus,—the Campanian disease); _Juvenal_, Sat II.; _Martial_, Epigr. bk. I. 66.; _Tacitus_, Annals bk. IV.; _Suetonius_, Vita Octav. Augusti ch. 80.; _Lucian_, Pseudologista; _Valerius Maximus_, Memorab. bk. III. ch. 5.; _Lucius Apuleius_, Metamorphos. bk. X. The refutation given by _Astruc_ repeats almost word for word _Girtanner_ vol. II. p. 357-363., though he gives it, as usual, as his own Production. 3) _Becket_, William. An attempt to prove the Antiquity of the Venereal Disease long before the discovery of the West-Indies. In Philosophical Transactions. Vol. XXX. 1718. No. 357. p. 839.—A letter to Dr. _W. Wagstaffe_ concerning the antiquity of the Venereal Disease. Ibid. Vol. XXXI. 1720. No. 365. p. 47.—A letter to _Dr. Halley_, in answer to some objections made to the history of the Venereal disease. No. 366. p. 108.