A worthy treatise of the eyes : contayning the knowledge and cure of one hundred and thirtene diseases, incident vnto them: first gathered & written in French, by Iacques Guillemeau, chyrurgion to the French King, and now translated into English, togeather with a profitable treatise of the scorbie; & another of the cancer by A.H. Also next to the treatise of the eies is adoiyned a work touching the preseruation of the sight, set forth by VV. Bailey. D. of Phisick

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Guillemeau, Jacques, 1550?-1613
Other Authors: Weyer, Johann, 1515-1588, Textor, Benoît, 16th cent, Hunton, Anthony
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [London] : Printed by Robert Waldegraue for Thomas Man and VVilliam Brome, [1587?]
Series:Early English books online.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Item Description:A translation by Anthony Hunton of: Guillemeau, Jacques. Traité des maladies de l'oeil.
Includes "A discourse of the scorby", translated from "Medicarum observationum rararum" by Johann Weyer; and "Of the nature and diuers kindes of cancers or cankers", translated from "De cancri natura et curatione" by Benoît Textor; register is continuous throughout.
Signatures: A-I¹² chiK¹² (-chiK12) K-M¹² .
Numerous errors in pagination; pagination deduced from signature collation.
See Poynter, F.N.L. Notes on a late-sixteenth-century ophthalmic work in English. The Library, series 5, 2 (1947), pages 173-9.
Imperfect; lacks dedication, table of contents, and treatise by W. Bailey.
Reproduction of the original in Cambridge University Library.
Physical Description:1 online resource ([312] pages)