The English-mans treasvre. With the true anatomie of mans body: compiled by that excellent chyrurgion Mr. Thomas Vicary Esquire, sergeant chyrurgion to King Henry the 8. to King Edvvard the 6. to Queene Mary, and to our late soveraigne Queene Elizabeth, and also chiefe chyrurgion to St. Bartholmewes Hospitall. Whereunto are annexed many secrets appertaining to chyrurgerie, with divers excellent approved remedies for all captaines and souldiers, that travell either by water or land: and likewise for all diseases which are either in man or woman: with emplaisters of especiall cure: with other potions and drinkes approved in physicke. Gathered and set forth for the benefit and cure of the poorer sort of people, who are not able to goe to the physitians: by William Bremer, practitioner in physicke and chyrurgerie. And now ninthly much augmented, corrected an enlarged, with almost a thousand approved waters and medicines, meet and necessary for physicke and chyrurgerie: as also oyntments an

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  • The English-mans treasvre. With the true anatomie of mans body: compiled by that excellent chyrurgion Mr. Thomas Vicary Esquire, sergeant chyrurgion to King Henry the 8. to King Edvvard the 6. to Queene Mary, and to our late soveraigne Queene Elizabeth, and also chiefe chyrurgion to St. Bartholmewes Hospitall. Whereunto are annexed many secrets appertaining to chyrurgerie, with divers excellent approved remedies for all captaines and souldiers, that travell either by water or land: and likewise for all diseases which are either in man or woman: with emplaisters of especiall cure: with other potions and drinkes approved in physicke. Gathered and set forth for the benefit and cure of the poorer sort of people, who are not able to goe to the physitians: by William Bremer, practitioner in physicke and chyrurgerie. And now ninthly much augmented, corrected an enlarged, with almost a thousand approved waters and medicines, meet and necessary for physicke and chyrurgerie: as also oyntments an
  • Profitable treatise of the anatomie of mans body
  • English-mans treasure.
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Imprint
Printed at London: by B. Alsop, and Tho. Favvcet, dwelling in Grubstreet neere the lower pumpe, 1641.
Publication year
1641-1641
ESTC No.
R13290
Grub Street ID
61402
Description
[12], 292, [16] p. : ill. ; 4⁰
Note
Frontis. = ill.

First published as: A profitable treatise of the anatomie of mans body, 1548. The earliest extant ed. is of 1577. --DNB.

Largely based on a medieval English compilation dating from 1392, which was an abridged version of passages from H. de Mondeville and Lanfranco of Milan. The "annexed secrets" contain extracts from J. Hester's translation of A short discours .. uppon chirurgie by L. Fioravant (London, 1580) and W. Ward's translation of The secretes of .. Alexis of Piemont [i.e., Girolamo Ruscelli?] (London, 1562).

"Of the bath of Bathe, in England .. written by William Turner .. gathered and set forth .. by William Bremer": p. 79-94.