Contains valuable notices on the history of Venereal disease, specially dealing with Gonorrhoea in Antiquity; cites several very important passages from _Galen_ previously overlooked, and by their help maintains the antiquity of the Disease. The matters dealt with in this Treatise had already been gone into by the same Author in the Seventh Volume of his Handbook to Medical Clinics. 41) _August Zennaro_, Diss. inaug. de syphilidis antiquitate et an sit semper contagio tribuenda, Patav. 1837. 32 S. gr. 8. (_August Zennaro_, “Graduation Exercise, on the Antiquity of Syphilis; should it be considered always Contagious?” Padua 1837. pp. 41. large 8vo.). 42) _Jos. Ferd. Masarei_, Diss. sist. argumentum, morbos venereos esse morbos antiquos. Viennae 1837. 8. (_Jos. Ferd. Masarei_, “Exercise maintaining the thesis that: the Venereal diseases are ancient Diseases.” Vienna 1837. 8vo.). Besides the above Works, specially devoted to the History of Venereal Disease and dealing exclusively with this, the subject is discussed also by most of the larger Hand-books and Manuals on this Malady, e.g, _Swediaur_, _Bertrandi_, _Foot_, _Barbantini_, _Jourdan_. However we must particularize: _Joan. Astruc_, de morbis venereis libri sex. In quibus disseritur tum de origine, propagatione et contagione horumce affectuum in genere: tum de singulorum natura, aetiologia et therapeia, cum brevi analysi et epicrisi operum plerorumque quae de eodem argumento scripta sunt. Paris 1736. XVIII. 20. 628. 50 S. 4. Paris (Nachdruck zu Basel). 1738. 4.—Translated by _Will. Borrowby_. Lond. 1737. 8.—_Editio secunda_: de morbis venereis libri IX. Paris 1740. 4. Vol. I. XXXVI. 608 S. (Enthält zugleich Dissertatio I. de origine, appellatione natura et curatione morborum venereorum inter Sinas S. DXXXVII-DLXVI). Vol. II. 537-1196 S. (Unsere Citate beziehen sich auf diese Ausgabe).—Paris 1743. Vol. I-IV. 12. Die ersten 4 Bücher wurden von _Boudon_ und _Aug. Franc. Jault_ ins Französische übersetzt. Paris 1740. 12. Vol. I-III.—_Editio tertia_ aucta per _Jo. Astruc_ et _Ant. Louis_. Paris 1755. Vol. I-IV. 12. Nachdruck Venetiis 1760. 4. mit Hinzufügung von _Gerardi_ van _Swieten_, Epistolae duae de mercurio sublimato und _Jos. Mar. Xav. Bertini_, diss. de usu mercurii.—Translated by Sam. _Chapmann_. Lond. 1755. 1. deutsch von _Joh. Gottlob Heise_. Frankf. und Leipz. 1784. gr. 8. _Editio quarta_: Paris. 1773. Vol. I-IV. 12.—_Editio quinta_, cura _Ant. Louis_. Paris 1777. Vol. I-IV. 12.