A most excellent and compendious method of curing woundes in the head, and in other partes of the body, with other precepts of the same arte. : Whereunto is added the exact cure of the Caruncle, never before set foorth in the English toung. With a treatise of the Fistulae in the fundament, and other places of the body, translated out of Johannes Ardern. And also the discription of the Emplaister called Dia Chalciteos, with his use and vertues. With an apt Table for the better finding of the perticular matteris, contayned in this present worke. / Practised and written by that famoous man Franciscus Arceus, Doctor in Phisicke & Chirurgery: and translated into English by John Read, Chirurgeon.

  • Arcaeus, Franciscus, 1493-1573?
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view A most excellent and compendious method of curing woundes in the head, and in other partes of the body, with other precepts of the same arte. : Whereunto is added the exact cure of the Caruncle, never before set foorth in the English toung. With a treatise of the Fistulae in the fundament, and other places of the body, translated out of Johannes Ardern. And also the discription of the Emplaister called Dia Chalciteos, with his use and vertues. With an apt Table for the better finding of the perticular matteris, contayned in this present worke. / Practised and written by that famoous man Franciscus Arceus, Doctor in Phisicke & Chirurgery: and translated into English by John Read, Chirurgeon.

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A most excellent and compendious method of curing woundes in the head, and in other partes of the body, with other precepts of the same arte. : Whereunto is added the exact cure of the Caruncle, never before set foorth in the English toung. With a treatise of the Fistulae in the fundament, and other places of the body, translated out of Johannes Ardern. And also the discription of the Emplaister called Dia Chalciteos, with his use and vertues. With an apt Table for the better finding of the perticular matteris, contayned in this present worke. / Practised and written by that famoous man Franciscus Arceus, Doctor in Phisicke & Chirurgery: and translated into English by John Read, Chirurgeon. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : Imprinted by Thomas East, for Thomas Cadman, 1588.

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16 unnumbered pages, 119 leaves (leaf 7 numbered twice, 91 printed as 61), 1 unnumbered leaf : illustrations, woodcut ; 18.5cm-20.5cm (4to)

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"The othe of Hippocratus": leaf 118-119
The first work is a translation of Arceo's De recta curandorum vulnerum ratione with the annotations of Alvaro Nuñez
"The discription of an emplaister called dia chalciteos" is translated from chap. 4 of the first book of Galen's De compositione medicamentorum per genera.
Copy 2 Note: Notes in Greek script on front and back flyleaves. Title page torn at the top. Two blank pages after the illustration 'The forme or figure of an instrument' not present in the other copies. Leaf 117 wanting. Bound in mottled dark brown calf.
Copy 3 Note: Title page torn at the top and repaired later with the missing words traced in pencil; leaf 108 torn off at the bottom and repaired. Extensive annotations in the margins in several contemporary hands. Leaf 37 numbered as 41, leaf 39 numbered as 43. Later three quarter black leather binding with green speckled paper sides.
Copy 4 Supplier/Donor: Med. Soc. Lond. Note: Bookplate of John Lewis Petit in the front cover. Note on Franciscus Arcaeus inserted between 32 and 33. Occasional annotations in the margins, some cropped. Later speckled calf binding.

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STC 723
ESTC S100216
Luborsky & Ingram. Engl. illustrated books, 1536-1603, 723
STC (2nd ed.), 723

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