A treatise of one hundred and thirteene diseases of the eyes, and eye-liddes / The second time published, with some profitable additions of certaine principles and experiments, by Richard Banister.

Traité des maladies de l'oeil. English

Banister's breviary of the eyes.

Vvorthy treatise of the eyes.

Worthy treatise of the eyes.

Imprinted at London : By Felix Kyngston, for Thomas Man, dwelling in Pater-noster-row, at the signe of the Talbot, 1622.

480 unnumbered pages

STC (2nd ed.) 12499.5.

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, ser. 5, 2 (1947), p. 173-9.

Identified as STC 1362 on UMI microfilm.

Reproduction of the original in Cambridge University Library.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 694:1) s1999 miun s