The art of chirurgery, explained, in six parts ... Being the whol [sic] fifth book of Practical physick / By D. Sennertus ... [tr. by] Nicholas Culpeper ... Abdiah Cole ... And W.R. [i.e. William Rowland?].

  • Sennert, Daniel, 1572-1637
Date:
1661
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Credit: The art of chirurgery, explained, in six parts ... Being the whol [sic] fifth book of Practical physick / By D. Sennertus ... [tr. by] Nicholas Culpeper ... Abdiah Cole ... And W.R. [i.e. William Rowland?]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Life of DanklSennertHSyDo^or: of Phyficb '^Inch Vlace by the bleping of God, to whofe l^ame be the Ghty^ he fo carried himfelj that all his care iv.ts falthfuEy to dijeharge the-Ojfice com^. mittedtohmi and his'Diligence in teaching was rewarded by\the:Gratk tudeoftheyong Students his Difctples. ]>lor did he think him/elf jufficU ently di/charged of his Duty, if he did not negleH his piiblick LeBuresj but he labored w 'ubal to adyance the Art of Healing by his Writings. Where=» in how he hath acquitted himfelj appears from the following Tejimonies and JpJg?7Unts of mojt renowned men. He was the firji that brought the Tra^ '^liceofChymiJlryintothellniyerfityof'Wiwmheitgc, concerning y?hicJr Art, though the ‘judgments of men are Various, and true it is,that the.abufe^ ^ thereof isnow adaies as great as the uje weU^neer. Jet it is lyell Kno'iyn that no man can wimlly rejeB the jame,jaye he that Is altogether unacquain* ' ted therewith* Alfo in the DraHice ofHyftck he did all his endeavor yo help many, andhurt 7ione* Hence it came to paf^ hyQods bkfimg, that n.t only at Witcemberg^ hutjrom other 1^arts aljo, his Advice was fought' by many fick p^opie^ both high and low, rich and poor. To all which he^ was rnoft ready and VpiUing to afford his Advice and Tains, eVen with the negleB of his oWn Health : nor did he ever refuje his helping hand to any one. 'He never required any price of any one for his pains, hut whatever was prefented to him he received it with thanks, and he pajfed by without ofence the Ingratitude of many of his Tat tents, yea, and to poor people he rejlored what t hey prefented him by way of acknowledgment. What danger heunderwent from the Jeer 1602* to the day of his death, in which time the Tlague Was in the City feVen times anfmorCy very brief, beftdes other contagious Dijeafes which frequently crept up and down, h^ iunexpeBed ■ and fudden Death did at laji declare. In which pefiilential and ftckly fea^ fons he never Jiirred out oftheTown, although he was at libertyJoto do, ha=> ving no obligation upon him to the contrary. In the Jear 16:28. on the '2%AayofWl2LXch, attendmgupon the'Prince Ele Bor of Saxony, being fekof apsjlilential teaVer^ he was unexpeBedly by him made one of hts ¥hyjitians in Or dinary, he leaving it free for him to continue in his P/are ^rWictemberge. He was alfo mojl frequently fought unto and advifed with by many other Dukes, princes, Earls, and JS^obles, effecfally of lower! Saxony^ and upper Germany^, who all by the Grace of God found good by:, his Advice and Help* Nor inufi it hefere omitted, how by the. advice pf the Phyfitians of Fadim, the mojl illuflrious Lord Nicholaus Sapieha, Earl of Coden, chief Eftfigfi^Dearer of the great Dukedom of Licuania/ bewgtYOuhled with a dejferate kind of Dfeaje, came out of Poland to ^ Wittenberge^ above an Hundred (ferman Miles, and received Help -by Lcwr a- the Advice of Sennercus. ' ■ He Was many times Dean of the QolleJg of Thyfitlans, and fix fhwei pubUckly created TgBor of the Univerjity, a thing ?teVer known before. Men. He