A worthy treatise of the eyes : contayning the knowledge and cure of one hundred and thirtene diseases, incident vnto them: first gathered & written in French, by Iacques Guillemeau, chyrurgion to the French King, and now translated into English, togeather with a profitable treatise of the scorbie; & another of the cancer by A.H. Also next to the treatise of the eies is adoiyned a work touching the preseruation of the sight, set forth by VV. Bailey. D. of Phisick.
- Guillemeau, Jacques, 1550?-1613
- Date:
- [1587?]
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About this work
Also known as
Traité des maladies de l'oeil. English
Publication/Creation
[London] : Printed by Robert Waldegraue for Thomas Man and VVilliam Brome, [1587?]
Physical description
312 unnumbered pages
References note
STC (2nd ed.) 12499.
Notes
A translation by Anthony Hunton of: Guillemeau, Jacques. Traité des maladies de l'oeil.
Includes "A discourse of the scorby", translated from "Medicarum observationum rararum" by Johann Weyer; and "Of the nature and diuers kindes of cancers or cankers", translated from "De cancri natura et curatione" by Benoît Textor; register is continuous throughout.
Signatures: A-I¹² chiK¹² (-chiK12) K-M¹² .
Numerous errors in pagination; pagination deduced from signature collation.
See Poynter, F.N.L. Notes on a late-sixteenth-century ophthalmic work in English. The Library, ser. 5, 2 (1947), p. 173-9.
Imperfect; lacks dedication, table of contents, and treatise by W. Bailey.
Reproduction of the original in Cambridge University Library.
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1272:15) s1999 miun s