A collection of tracts, chirurgical and medical : viz. I. A new light of chirurgery; or a discovery of a more safe, and speedy way of curing wounds than formerly usually practised, with several experiments. II. The new light of chirurgery vindicated from the unjust aspersions of several unknown calumniators, &c. III. A physico-medical essay concerning alkaly and acid as they relate to the cause and cure of distempers; with an account of some distempers, and the medicines for the cure of them: also a short digression about specific remedies. IV. Further considerations concerning alkaly and acid, wherein the terms and nature of them are more fully explained, &c. V. A treatise of the gout, wherein both its cause and cure are demonstrated; with some medicinal observations concerning the cure of fevers, &c. by the means of acids; with an account of experiments, and the medicines, with their preparations. VI. The doctrine of acids in the cure of diseases further asserted, in answer to Dr. Tuthill; wherein are some things relating to the his.
- Colbatch, John, Sir, 1670-1729
- Date:
- 1699
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Also known as
Dr. Colbatch's vvorks
Dr. Colbatch's works
Publication/Creation
London : printed for Dan. Brown at the Black Swan and Bible without Temple-Bar, 1699.
Physical description
4 unnumbered pages, 568 pages, 16 unnumbered pages
Contributors
Notes
Half-title reads: Dr. Colbatch's vvorks.
Includes index.
Includes: "Novum lumen chirurgicum: or, A new light of chirurgery" (3rd ed.); "Novum lumen chirurgicum vindicatum: or, The new light of chirurgery vindicated" (3rd ed.); "A physico-medical essay concerning alkaly and acid" (3rd ed.); Some farther considerations concerning alkaly and acid (3rd ed.); "A treatise of the gout" (2nd ed.); "The doctrin of acids in the cure of diseases" (2nd ed.) and "A relation of a very sudden and extraordinary cure of a person bitten by a viper, by the means of acids" (2nd ed.).
Each part has separate title page dated 1698, except "The doctrin of acids" and "A relation" which are dated 1699; pagination and register are continuous. Each part was previously published separately.
Reproduction of original in the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London.
References note
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996) C4992
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2528:1) s1999 miun s