The surgeons mate or Military & domestique surgery : Discouering faithfully & plainly ye method and order of ye surgeons chest, ye uses of the instruments, the vertues and operations of ye medicines, with ye exact cures of wounds made by gunshott, and otherwise as namely: wounds, apos fumes, ulcers, fistula's, fractures, dislocations, with ye most easie & safest wayes of amputation or dismembring. The cures of the scuruey, of ye fluxes of ye belly, of ye collicke and iliaca passio, of tenasmus and exitus ani, and of the calenture, with A treatise of ye cure of ye plague. Published for the service of his Ma. tie and of the com:wealth. By John Woodall Mr. in chyrurgerie.
- Woodall, John, 1556?-1643
- Date:
- 1655
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Also known as
Surgions mate, or A treatise discouering faithfully and plainely the due contents of the surgions chest
Treatise discouering faithfully and plainely the due contents of the surgions chest
Surgeons mate
Military and domestique surgery
Viaticum: a help to the surgeons chest
De peste, or The plague
Publication/Creation
London : printed by Iohn Legate, for Nicholas Bourne, and are to be sold at his shop at the south entrance of the Royall Exchange, 1655.
Physical description
34 unnumbered pages, 26 pages, 8 unnumbered pages, 27-98, 141-275 pages, 13 unnumbered pages, pages 303, 302-413 pages, 13 unnumbered pages, 5 unnumbered leaves of plates (metalcut) : illustrations, portraits
Lettering
Woodal's Viaticum: a help to the surgeons chest
Notes
Signatures: A-B⁶ C-G⁴ [chi]⁴ H-O⁴ P⁶ 2A-2R⁴ (2F1 mis-signed 3F) [para.]⁶ 3A-3O⁴ 3P-3R² .
Title page is engraved.
Includes index.
Frontispiece portrait of Charles I signed: P. Stent excudit
Another edition of: Woodall, John. The surgions mate.
Includes Woodall's previously published "Viaticum" of 1628, and two treatises: one on the plague; the other, "A treatise of gangrena, and sphacelos"; each with separate title pages dated 1653, but with continuous pagination and register.
Copy stained, with some print show-through.
Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
References note
Wing (2nd ed.) W3421
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2104:19) s1999 miun s