A discourse of the whole art of chyrurgery. Wherin is exactly set down the definitions, causes, accidents, prognostications and cures of all sorts of diseases ... Whereunto is added the rule of making remedies which chyrurgions doe commonly use, with The Presages [and Oath] of divine Hippocrates / [Peter Lowe].

  • Lowe, Peter, approximately 1550-approximately 1612
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A discourse of the whole art of chyrurgery. Wherin is exactly set down the definitions, causes, accidents, prognostications and cures of all sorts of diseases ... Whereunto is added the rule of making remedies which chyrurgions doe commonly use, with The Presages [and Oath] of divine Hippocrates / [Peter Lowe]. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : R. Hodgkinsonne, 1654 [i. e. 1655]

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24 unnumbered pages, 487 pages : illustrations, woodcuts ; (4to)

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Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/69/91
Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/69/92

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The 4th ed.; corrected /

Notes

"The Presages of divine Hippocrates": p. 457-487, has special title page dated 1655
Copy 1 Note: Main t.p. dated 1654, but title to 'Presages' [Wing H2075a] gives 1655. Lacks p. 271-272
Copy 2 Supplier/Donor: Med. Soc. Lond. Note: Leaf a4 wanting. Throughout 'Presages' section, fore-edge top corner of leaves mutilated. Doodles (upside-down) on verso of final leaf.

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Wing L3306
ESTC R6020
Wing (2nd ed.), L3306

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