Scrutinium Physico-Medicum Contagiosae Luis quae Pestis Dicitur

was Giovanni Benedetto Sinibaldi, a most deserving professor of medicine at the Roman Athenaeum; the second, Paolo Zacchia, a most illustrious physician of the Papal Court; the third, Girolamo Bardi, an excellent doctor of both theology and medicine), men truly known to the world for their wisdom, their skill in more recondite medicine, and their publication of books, to be reviewed with the submission that is due. By the benign influence of their censure, this little work, as if animated and adorned, has longed to see the light. In it, if anything beneficial to the public good or opportune for the necessity of mankind should be found, I would wish that it be ascribed first and foremost to GOD, the Best and Greatest, who, as He is the source and origin of all good things, so He opens the channels of His grace to whom He wills; and therefore, to have acknowledged His benefits is to have poured back all things unto Him from whom they flowed. Farewell, benevolent reader, and take my modest effort put forth in this little work in good part.