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William Clowes and his 'Profitable and necessarie booke of observations' / by Ralph H. Major.

Epoch-making books in British surgery. III, A proved practise for all young chirurgians by William Clowes maister in chirurgerie / by Sir D'Arcy Power, K.B.E., F.S.A.

An examination of syphilis in the late sixteenth century, with particular reference to the syphilogical works of the London barber-surgeon William Clowes, 1540-1604 / Irem Sahinkaya.

Selected writings of William Clowes, 1544-1604 / edited with an introduction and notes by F.N.L. Poynter.

A man, designated as William Clowes, surgeon. Oil painting, ca. 1900 (?).

A briefe and necessarie treatise, touching the cure of the disease called Morbus Gallicus, or Lues Venerea, by unctions and other approoved waies of curing / newlie corrected and augmented.

A prooved practise for all young chirurgians, concerning burnings with gunpowder, and woundes made with gunshot, sword, halbard, pyke ... Heereto is adjoyned a treatise of the French or Spanish pockes / written by John Almenar.

A profitable and necessarie booke of observations, for all those that are burned with the flame of gun-powder, etc. ... With an addition of most approved remedies ... Last of all is adjoyned a short treatise, for the cure of Lues venerea / ... heretofore by me collected: and now againe newly corrected and augmented in the yeare ... 1596.

A prooved practise for all young chirurgians, concerning burnings with gunpowder, and woundes made with gunshot, sword, halbard, pyke, launce, or such other / ... Heereto is adjoyned a treatise of the French or Spanish pockes, written by John Almenar ... Also, a commodious collection of aphorismes both English and Latin, taken out of an old written coppy. Newly corrected and augmented.

A right frutefull and approoved treatise, for the artificiall cure of that malady called in Latin Struma, and in English the Evill, cured by Kinges and Queenes of England / [William Clowes].

A right frutefull and approoued treatise, for the artificiall cure of that malady called in Latin Struma, and in English, the evill, cured by kinges and queenes of England : Very necessary for all young practizers of chyrurgery. Written by William Clowes, one of her Maiesties chyrurgions, in the yeare of our Lord. 1602.

A briefe and necessarie treatise, touching the cure of the disease called morbus Gallicus, or lues venerea, by vnctions and other approoued waies of curing: nevvlie corrected and augmented by William Clowes of London, maister in chirurgerie.

A prooved practise for all young chirurgians, concerning burnings with gunpowder, and woundes made with gunshot, sword, halbard, pyke ... Heereto is adjoyned a treatise of the French or Spanish pockes written by John Almenar.

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Clowes, William, approximately 1540-1604

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A prooved practise for all young chirurgians, concerning burnings with gunpowder, and woundes made with gunshot, sword, halbard, pyke ... Heereto is adjoyned a treatise of the French or Spanish pockes / written by John Almenar.

A briefe and necessarie treatise, touching the cure of the disease called morbus Gallicus, or lues venerea, by vnctions and other approoued waies of curing: nevvlie corrected and augmented by William Clowes of London, maister in chirurgerie.

A prooved practise for all young chirurgians, concerning burnings with gunpowder, and woundes made with gunshot, sword, halbard, pyke ... Heereto is adjoyned a treatise of the French or Spanish pockes written by John Almenar.