Description
Item Description:A translation by Anthony Hunton of: Guillemeau, Jacques. Traité des maladies de l'oeil.
Includes "Certaine aphorismes, describing the nature and use of the eyes, and opticke spirits", followed by other selections, collectively entitled "Banister's breviary of the eyes"; "A worthy treatise of the eyes", , translated from "Traité des maladies de l'oeil" by Jacques Guillemeau, with separate dated title page; "A discourse of the scorby", translated from "Medicarum observationum rararum" by Johann Weyer; and "Of the nature and divers kinds of cancers or cankers", translated from "De cancri natura et curatione" by Benoît Textor; register is continuous throughout.
Signatures: (a)-(e)¹² (f)⁶ A-0¹² P⁶.
The last leaf is blank.
See Poynter, F.N.L. Notes on a late-sixteenth-century ophthalmic work in English. The Library, series 5, 2 (1947), pages 173-9.
Identified as STC 1362 on UMI microfilm.
Reproduction of the original in Cambridge University Library.
Physical Description:1 online resource ([480] pages)