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The English-mans treasure : with the true anatomie of mans body /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vicary, Thomas, -1561
Other Authors: Turner, William, -1568, Bremer, William, Boraston, William, Mondeville, Henri de, active 14th century, Lanfranco, of Milan, active 13th century, Ruscelli, Girolamo, -approximately 1565, Fioravanti, Leonardo, 1517-, Ward, William, 1534-1609, Hester, John, -1593
Format: Microform Book
Language:English
Published: Printed at London : By B. Alsop and Tho. Favvcet ..., 1641.
Edition:And now ninthly much augmented, corrected and enlarged ...
Series:Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 441:21.
Subjects:
Human anatomy > Early works to 1800.
Medicine > Early works to 1800.
Surgery > Early works to 1800.
Plague > Early works to 1800.
Health resorts > England > Bath > Early works to 1800.
Description
Item Description:First published as: A profitable treatise of the anatomie of mans body, 1548. The earliest extant edition is of 1577. Cf. DNB.
Largely based on a medieval English compilation dating from 1392, which was an abridged version of passages from H. de Mondeville and Lanfranco of Milan. The "annexed secrets" contain extracts from J. Hester's translation of A short discours ... uppon chirurgie by L. Fioravanti (London, 1580) and W. Ward's translation of The secretes of ... Alexis of Piemont [i.e., Girolamo Ruscelli?] (London, 1562).
Reproduction of original in Cambridge University Library.
Includes index.
"Of the bath of Bathe, in England ... written by William Turner ... gathered and set forth ... by William Bremer": pages 79-94.
"A necessary and briefe relation of the contagious disease of the pestilence ... by W. Boraston": pages 273-292.
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Physical Description:11 unnumbered pages, 292 pages, 15 unnumbered pages : illustrations