A discourse of the whole art of chyrurgerie. Wherein is exactly set downe the definition, causes, accidents, prognostications, and cures of all sorts of diseases ... Wherunto is added the rule of making remedies which chirurgions doe commonly use: with the Presages of divine Hyppocrates / [Peter Lowe].

  • Lowe, Peter, approximately 1550-approximately 1612
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A discourse of the whole art of chyrurgerie. Wherein is exactly set downe the definition, causes, accidents, prognostications, and cures of all sorts of diseases ... Wherunto is added the rule of making remedies which chirurgions doe commonly use: with the Presages of divine Hyppocrates / [Peter Lowe]. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : Thomas Purfoot, 1612.

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24 unnumbered pages, 446 (i. e. 447), 9 unnumbered pages; 31 unnumbered pages : t.page with woodcut border, woodcuts, illustrations ; (4to)

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The second edition corrected /

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P. 125-126 is supplied from another copy
Part [2] has special title page dated 1611
First published in 1597 under title: The whole course of chirurgerie. Cf. J. Finlayson, Account of the life and works of Maister Peter Lowe, Glasgow, 1889, p. 31.
Copy 3. Supplier/Donor: Med. Soc. Lond. Note: Leaves Ff.2-7 and 2A1 (tp., dated 1611, to the Presages) and 3D4 wanting.

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