PINTOR, PETER, a physician, was born at Valencia in Spain, in the year 1420, and became physician to Alexander VI. whom he followed to Rome, where he practised with great success. He left behind him two works of considerable merit; 1. Aggregator Sententiarum Doctorum de Curacione in Pestilentia, printed at Rome in 1499, folio; and, 2. De Morbo Febro et Occulto his Temporibus Affligenti, printed at Rome in 1500, 4to, black letter, a book extremely scarce, and which traces the lucis venerea to the year 1496. Pintor died at Rome in the year 1503, aged eighty-three.
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