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
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.
References note
STC (2nd ed.) 12499.
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