Cordus, Euricius.

Ain Regiment Wie man sich vor der neuen plage, der Englische Schwaiß genannt, unnd so man damit ergriffen wirdt, darjn halten soll.

      [Marburg?, 1529]. - 4to. 8 ff. With a woodcut initial. Floral wrappers. Bibliographically unrecorded edition of this oft-printed work about the mysterious illness that had first appeared in Germany that year and spread rapidly throughout the country. The infective cause of this epidemic, known as "English sweate" and in older German literature frequently equated with the plague, remained a "total mystery until it was compared with Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) in 1994 [.] [It] predominantly attacked males between the ages of 15 and 45 years. The incubation period was frighteningly short and the outcome normally fatal [.] its pockets of instant lethality in communities gave it a special ranking of horror" (E. Bridson, in: Br J Biomed Sci. 2001;58(1):1-6). - The author was a Professor of Medicine at the University of Marburg and municipal physician in Bremen; most of his fame, hoewever, he owes to his 13 volumes of neo-Latin epigrams, which mark him as one of the genre's most significant representatives in the 16th century. - With numerous marginalia by a contemporary hand. Attractive, almost unbrowned copy. Cf. VD 16, C 5097-5104 (8 different editions, none of which agrees with the present one). Durling 1024. Wellcome I, 1588. Hirsch/H. II, 107. [Attributes: Soft Cover]