'Trattato della Podagra' ('Treatise on Gout')

Date:
pre 1687
Reference:
SA/HEB/E/2/3
Part of:
Heberden Collection
  • Archives and manuscripts

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Description

'Trattato della Podagra' written by David de Planis Campy. Translated into Italian from the French by P.F Cherubino Bozomo Genovese, reader theologian of the Order of Preachers in Genoa.

Publication/Creation

pre 1687

Physical description

1 volume

Biographical note

The author of this work is David de Planis Campy (1589-c.1644), who was a French alchemist, physician and surgeon. It is believed that in 1627 he was surgeon to King Louis XIII of France. Planis Campy wrote numerous works including those on phlebotomy, musket wounds, the plague, and mineral and chemical remedies.
The translator is Cherubino Bozomo. According to a 'Repertoire of Sources on the Genoese Aristocracy' prepared by Andrea Lercari on behalf of the Superintendent Archivist of Liguria, which can be found at the following weblink http://archivi.beniculturali.it/archivi_old/sage/testi/bozomo.pdf, Padre Fratello Cherubino Bozomo was a member of the Bozomo family who were a noble Genoese family in the early 16th century. Further information about Cherubino is given in the Genoan State Archives: Archivio Segreto, 2833, Nobilitatis, docc. 112-113 (29 July 1620) and in A. Vigna, Santa Maria di Castello, in Atti della Società Ligure di Storia Patria, vol. XX. Fasc. 2 , pp. 189-90. This shows he was born around 1607 and confirms he was the son of Antonio and Giulia Bozomo. He took Holy Orders in 1623 at the Monastery of Santa Maria di Castello, where he died on 26 April 1687

Related material

Other works of David de Planis Campy are held in academic libraries all over Europe and America and many are available as digital books. Searches of these catalogues have not shown this particular Treatise on Gout written in the original French or revealed an English translation.
There are also 23 works by Planis Campy held at Wellcome Collection, and 10 in the British Library although none have 'Gout' in the title.

Ownership note

The Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, (1975), 34, 461 record the acquisition of this treatise by the Heberden Society in 1974.

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