List of Treatises and Dissertations on Scurvy 1500 to 1700 in the Holy Roman Empire

Sources: VD 16 and VD 17, date of last check: May 24, 2024[1]

Keyword search: “scorbut*”, “schorbut*”

Sorted first by place, and then by date

The town names and locations have been altered to their current notation and national affiliation.

Altdorf

Ebner, Johannes. Archiatro Supremo Christo Duce Theses hasce De Scorbuto ... . Diss. Altdorf: Scherff, 1641.

Basel, Switzerland

Wier, Johann (Weyer). Observationum rararum Liber I. De Scorbuto. De Quartana. De Pestilentiali Angina, Pleuritide, & Peripneumonia. De Hydropis curatione. De Curatione meatuum naturalium clausorum, & quibusdam alijs. Cum ... Rerum et uerborum indice. Basel: Oporinus, 1567.

Mithobius, Konrad. De Stomacace, & Scelotyrbe, vulgo nuncupato Scorbuto, pro summis in arte Apollinea honoribus, ac privilegiis Doctoralibus consequendis, Diss. Basel: Waldkirch, 1601.

Müller, Caspar. Theses Medicae De Scorbuto. Diss. Basel: Schroeter, 1605.

Psichholt, Bartholomaeus. Conclusiones De Scorbuto. Diss. Basel: Schroeter, 1606.

Wanckel, Johannes. Theses De Scorbuto. Diss. Basel: Genath, 1608.

Bauhin, Caspar and Jacob Coler. Theses Iatricae De Scorbuto & Hypochondriaca Adfectione Flatulenta. Diss. Basel: Schroeter, 1608.

Albinus, Jacob. Praecidanea Haecce De Scorbuto. Diss. Basel: Genath, 1614.

Judex, Georgius. Disputatio Medica de Scorbuto. Diss. Basel: Schroeter, 1624.

Holterhoff, Engelbert. Ut bene vertat, Dissertationem hanc De Scorbuto. Diss. Basel: Schroeter, 1629.

Bremen

Eugalenus, Severinus. De Scorbuto Morbo Liber, in quo omnia quae de signis eius dignosticis dici possunt, tractata continentur… Cui adiunctae obervationes sunt, cum brevi & succincta curationis cuiusque speciei, seu differentis symptomatis indicatione. Bremen: Wessel, 1588.

Duisburg

Bruckmann, Hendricus Crato. De Scorbuto .... Diss. Duisburg: Sas, 1695.

Erfurt

Leichner, Eckard and Johann Christian Gotter. Dissertatio Medica Inauguralis De Scorbuto. Diss. Erfurt: Kirsch, 1681.

Vesti, Justus and David Friedrich Bühren. Dissertatio Medica De Scorbuto. Diss. Erfurt: Kindleb, 1690.

Alberti, Heinrich Christoph and Johann Heinrich Schmoller. Dissertatio Inauguralis Medica De Scorbuto, Germanicè Von dem Scharbock. Diss. Erfurt: Stanno Groschiano, 1692.

Frankfurt Main

*Wier, Johann (Weyer). Artzney Buch: Von etlichen biß anher vnbekandten vnd vnbeschriebenenKranckheiten, als da sind der Schurbauch [scorbut], Varen oder lauffenden Varen…, Frankfurt Main: Basse, 1580. This is the enhanced German ed. (he translated himself) of his 1567 Latin book.

*Wier, Johann (Weyer). Artzney Buch: Von etlichen biß anher vnbekandten vnd vnbeschriebenenKranckheiten, als da sind der Schurbauch [scorbut], Varen oder lauffenden Varen…, Frankfurt Main: Basse, 1583 (enhanced reprint of the edition Frankfurt Main 1580)

Reusner, Hieronymus. Exercitationum Liber de Scorbuto... Frankfurt Main: Palthenius, 1600.

Foreest, Pieter van. Liber 1 - 32. Observationum et curationum medicinalium sive medicinae theoricae & practicae libri ... Frankfurt Main: Palthenius, 1602, vol. 20: De Lienis morbis: ubi et de Scorbutto … pertractatur.

Sennert, Daniel, Balduin Ronsseus, Johann Echt, Johann Wier, Johann Lang, Salomon Alberti, Matthaeus Martini. Danielis Sennertii De Scorbuto Tractatus. Cui accesserunt eiusdem argumenti Tractatus & Epistolae Balduini Ronssei, Johannis Echtii, Johannis Wieri, Johannis Langii, Salomonis Alberti, Matthaei Martini. Second Edition. Frankfurt Main: Mevius, 1654.

Giessen

Horst, Gregor, and Philipp Weber. De Scorbuto: Exercitatio Prior. Diss. Giessen: Hampel, 1608.

Horst, Gregor, Philipp Weber (1) and Johann Degenhardt (2). Tractatus De Scorbuto Seu De Magnis Hippocratis Lienibus, Pliniiq Stomacace ac Scelotyrbe: In Illustri Academia Giessena Duabus Exercitationibus Publicis in gratiam discentium propositus. Diss. Giessen: Hampel, 1609.

Greifswald

Heun, Johann Vollbrecht. Disputatio Inauguralis De Scorbuto. Diss. Greifswald: Jeger, 1656.

Hannover

Lister, Martin. Sex Exercitationes Medicinales De Quibusdam Morbis Chronicis: Quarum Prima est, De Hydrope; Secunda, De Diabete; Tertia; De Hydrophobia; Quarta, De Lue Venerea; Quinta, De Scorbuto; Sexta, De Arthritide… Hannover: Freytag, 1696. (pp. 189-212, with 12 case histories)

Helmstedt

Wolf, Johann, and Konrad Buscher. Disputatio De Scorbuto. Diss. Helmstedt: Lucius, 1618.

Meibom, Johann Heinrich, and Wendelin Sybelist. Disputatio Inauguralis De Scorbuto. Diss. Helmstedt: Lucius, 1625.

Wolf, Johann, and Johann Behrens. Disputatio Medica De Scorbuto. Diss. Helmstedt: Lucius, 1628.

Wolf, Johann, and Hermann Conring. Disputatio Medica De Scorbuto. Diss. Helmstedt: Lucius, 1634.

Conring, Hermann, and Leonhard Krüger. Disputatio Medica De Scorbuto. Diss. Helmstedt: Lucius, 1638.

Conring, Hermann, and Lorenz Gieseler. Disputatio Medica Inauguralis De Scorbuto. Diss. Helmstedt: Mullerus, 1644.

Vogler, Valentin Heinrich, and Joachim Heinrici. Disputatio Medica De Scorbuto. Diss. Helmstedt: Mullerus, 1657.

Conring, Hermann, and Julius Georg Behrens. Disputatio Medica Inauguralis De Scorbuto. Diss. Helmstedt: Typographeum Calixtinum, 1659.

Conring, Hermann, and Leonhard Krüger. Disputatio Medica De Scorbuto. Diss. Second edition. Helmstedt: Mullerus, 1671.

Jena

Brendel, Zacharias, and Johann Placcius. Disputatio Medica De Scorbuto. Diss. Jena: Steinmann, 1634.

*[Eugalenus, Severinus. De Scorbuto Morbo Liber: In Quo Omnia Quae De signis eius diagnosticis dici possunt, tractata continentur, animadversa. Ed. by Josephus Lodovicus Guilielmus <Comes Nassoviae> Stubendorff and Zacharias Brendel. Nunc denuo recognitus&editus. Leipzig: Voigt, Jena: Beithmann, 1624.] (See Leipzig)

Rolfinck, Werner, and Eckard Leichner. …De Dolore Lienis, Affectu Hypochondriaco Et Scorbuto. Diss. Jena: Steinmann, 1637.

Rolfinck, Werner, and Hieronymus Bierling. Disputatio Medica Inauguralis De Scorbuto. Diss. Jena: Lobenstein, 1640.

Möbius, Gottfried, and Jacob Haberstroh. Disputatio Inauguralis Medica De Scorbuto. Diss. Jena: Lobenstein, 1644.

Rolfinck, Werner, and Laurentius Blumentrost. Disputatio Inauguralis. De Scorbuto. Diss. Jena: Lobenstein, 1648.

Rolfinck, Werner, and Statius Heinrich Crauel. Exercitatio Medica De Scorbuto. Diss. Jena: Sengenwald, 1652.

Möbius, Gottfried, and Anton Günther Zur Helle. Discursus Inauguralis Medicus De Scorbuto. Diss. Jena: Krebs, 1662.

Schenck, Johann Theodor, and Johan Adolph Sass. Disputatio Inauguralis Medica, De Scorbuto. Diss. Jena: Werther, 1665.

Rolfinck, Werner, and Johann Lorenz Loelius. Syzytēsis Medica Inauguralis De Scorbuto. Diss. Jena: Nisius, 1668.

Major, Johann Daniel. Doctrinam de Scorbuto privatim percepturis. [Jena], 1668.

Crause, Rudolf Wilhelm, and Caspar Blechen. Disputatio Medica De Schorbuto. Diss. Jena: Bauhofer, 1671.

Wedel, Georg Wolfgang, and Conrad Rudolf Hertz. Disputationem Inauguralem De Scorbuto, Pro Licentia Summos in Arte Medica Honores. Diss. Jena: Müller, 1687.

Kaliningrad, Russia

Tinctorius, Christoph, and Johann Jacob Müncerus. Disputatio Medica De Scorbuto. Königsberg: Reusner, 1652.

Leipzig

Eugalenus, Severinus. De Scorbuto Morbo Liber…. Ed. by Josephus Lodovicus Guilielmus <Comes Nassovius> Stubendorff. Leipzig: Voigt, 1604.

Kest, Franz Mochinger. Disputationis Ordinariae De Scorbuto Seu Gingipedio. Diss. Leipzig: Cober, 1618.

Eugalenus, Severinus. De Scorbuto Morbo Liber: In Quo Omnia Quae De signis eius diagnosticis dici possunt, tractata continentur, animadversa. Ed. by Josephus Lodovicus Guilielmus <Comes Nassoviae> Stubendorff and Zacharias Brendel. Nunc denuo recognitus&editus. Leipzig: Voigt, Jena: Beithmann, 1624.

Zeidler, Johann, and Nicolaus Selnecker. Disputatio Ordinaria De Scorbuto Morbo hodie frequentißimo. Diss. Leipzig: Iansonius, 1627.

*[Eugalenus, Severinus, Heinrich Brucaeus, and Balthasar Brunner.] De Scorbuto Tractatus Varii: In quibus omnia, quae de signis eius diagnosticis dici possunt, continentur … Leipzig: Schneider, 1662.

Grüling, Philipp. Florilegii Hippocrateo-Galeno-Chymici Novi: & quasi Prodromi, Medicinae Practicae proxime insequentis. Leipzig: Frommannus, 1665.

Sultzberger, Sigismund Rupert, and Johann Christian Brebis. Disputationem Inauguralem De Scorbuto. Diss. Leipzig: Colerus, 1666.

Drawitz, Johann. Bericht und Unterricht von der Kranckheit des Schmertz-machenden Scharbocks: Woher derselbe entstehe und komme, und wie solche Kranckheit zu curiren. Leipzig: Tarnovius, 1671.

Moellenbrock, Valentin Andreas. Cochlearia Curiosa: Cum Indice Rerum Et Verborum Locupletissimo. Leipzig: Grossius, 1674.

Ammann, Paul, and Benedict Gantzlandt. Disputatio Inauguralis, Quam De Stomakakkē Sive Scorbuto Oris. Diss. Leipzig: Krüger, 1681.

Lübeck

Botter, Heinrich. De Scorbuto Tractatio. Lübeck: Schernwebel, 1646.

Marburg

Ebelingk, Johannes. Disputatio Medica De Scorbuto. Diss. Marburg: Hutwelcker, 1618.

Curtius, Arnold, and Henry Giesn. Disputatio Medica, De Scorbuto. Diss. Marburg: Kürsner, 1680.

Ecker, Kaspar. Disputatio Medica Inauguralis Exhibens Casum Adolescentis Laborantis Scorbuto. Diss. Marburg: Kürsner, 1680. (case history)

Rostock

Brucaeus, Heinrich, and Christoph Heniochus. Propositiones Aliquot De Scorbuto. Diss. Rostock: Lucius, 1576.

Brucaeus, Heinrich. De Scorbuto Propositiones: de quibus disputatum est publice. Diss. [Rostock], 1589.

Wirdig, Sebastian Schoff. Disputatio Medica Inauguralis De Scorbuto. Diss. Rostock: Kilius, 1671.

Strasbourg, France

Gerlinghauß, Salomon. Dissertationem hanc Inauguralem Theorico-Practicam De Scorbuto. Diss. Strasbourg: Ledertz, 1628.

Argularius, Johann Heinrich. Disputationem hanc Medicam De Scorbuto. Diss. Strasbourg: Welper, 1636.

Hennings, Christoph. Disputatio Medica Inauguralis De Scorbuto. Diss. Strasbourg: Welper, 1651.

Hofmann, Georg Bernhard. Dissertationem De Scorbuto Inauguralem. Diss. Strasbourg: Welper, 1700.

Tübingen

Metzger, Georg Balthasar, and Lorenz Efferen. Disputatio Inauguralis Medica De Scorbuto. Diss. Tübingen: Werlin, 1663.

Camerarius, Elias Rudolf, and Philipp Friedrich Jäger. Disquisitio Medica Inauguralis De Phlogosibus Vagis Cum Scorbuto. Diss. Tübingen: Reisius, 1684.

Hamberger, Georg, and Marcus Hirscher. De Stomacace et Scelotyrbe, Vulgo Nuncupato Scorbuto Disputatio. Diss. Tübingen: Gruppenbach, 1586.

Wittenberg

Echt, Johann, De Scorbuto Epitome. Wittenberg, 1541. (not in VD 16 bibliography, but reprinted later many times)

Peucer, Kaspar. Themata Medica, de Morbis Contagiosis, de Scorbuto, de Ictero, de destillationibus ex capite, de euacuationum generibus. Diss. Wittenberg: Schleich und Schöne, 1574.

Ronsseus, Balduin, Johann Echt, Johann Wier, Johann Lang. Balduini Ronssei De Magnis Hippocratis Lienibus, Pliniique Stomacace ac Sceletyrbe, seu volgó dicto Scorbuto Commentariolus. Accessere Eiusdem epistolae quinq; eiusdem argumenti. Ioannis Echthij de scorbuto epitome. Ioannis Vuieri de scorbuto obseruatio. Ioannis Langij Epistolae duae de scorbuto. Wittenberg: Schleich, 1585.

Alberti, Salomon, and Ernestus Hettenbach. De Schorbuto. Diss. Wittenberg: Lehmann, Zacharias, 1591.

Alberti, Salomon. Schorbuti Historia; printed together with Salomon Alberti and Ernestus Hettenbach: De Schorbuto (Diss. Wittenberg 1591); and Johann Jacob Alberti: Quaestio An & quid Grandini in sue cum Schorbuto in homine sit commercij. Wittenberg: Müller, Georg d.Ä., 1594.

Sennert, Daniel and Matthaeus Brengger. Disputatio Medica, De Scorbuto. Diss. Wittenberg: Richter, 1620.

Sennert, Daniel, and Daniel Winckler. De Scorbuto Disputatio. Diss. Wittenberg: Hake, 1623.

Sennert, Daniel, Balduin Ronsseus, Johann Echt, Johann Wier, Johann Lang, Salomon Alberti, Matthaeus Martini. Danielis Sennertii De Scorbuto Tractatus. Cui accesserunt eiusdem argumenti Tractatus & Epistolae Balduini Ronssei, Johannis Echthii, Johannis Wieri, Johannis Langii, Salomonis Alberti, Matthaei Martini. Wittenberg: Schürer, 1624.

Sennert, Daniel. Liber ... Practicae Medicinae, vol 3: De Morbis Ac Symptomatibus Infimi Ventris. Wittenberg: Schürer, 1631.

Banzer, Marcus and David Preibisius. De Scorbuto …Diss. Wittenberg: Hake, 1640.

Banzer, Marcus, and Anton Günther Billich. Exercitatio Medica De Scorbuto. Diss. Wittenberg: Wendt, 1648.

Banzer, Marcus, and Johann Tarnow. Disputatio Medica Inauguralis De Scorbuto. Diss. Wittenberg: Röhner, 1652.

Sennert, Michael, and Johann Thile. Inauguralem De Scorbuto Disputationem. Diss. Wittenberg: Henckel, 1673.

[1] Register of printed works of the 16th century published in German-speaking countries (VD 16), landing page at https://www.bsb-muenchen.de/sammlungen/historische-drucke/recherche/vd-16/ (accessed May 24, 2024). Union Catalogue of Books Printed in German Speaking Countries in the 17th Century (VD 17) at http://www.vd17.de/en/home, (accessed May 24, 2024). Both catalogues contain not only the bibliographic information, but also, where available, links to the digital versions.