| There
are 119 items in total, some in facsimle (Fac)
and more to come once I get my many additions photocopy files
in order.
Surgery
1. The Surgion’s Mate, John Woodall 1617, Facsimile
edition, Ed. John Kirkup, Kingsmead Press, Bath, 1978 ISBN
0906230 15 2
Designed for Surgeon's Mates at sea for the British East India
Company. Has chapters on Instruments and their uses, medicines,
wounds, apostumes, fractures.(Fac)
1a. The Barber Surgeon's Mate of the 17th century, Rory McCreadie,
The Gosling Press (The English Civil War Society) 1995,
ISBN 1-874351-13-9
A pamphet based on Rory's research. Gives a short history
of Barber Surgeons and their relations with other medical
practitioners. Training, Tool, Medicine and Biographies of
three famous barber Surgeons, John Woodall, Ambrose Paré
and Richard Wiseman. A good introduction.
2. The Case Reports and Autopsy records of Ambrose Paré,
Ambrose Paré, compiled and edited by Wallace B. Hamby,
Carles C. Thomas Pub, Springfield Ill, USA, 1960, Library
of Congress n. 60-12663
2a. Ambrose Paré (de laval au mayne conseiller et premier
chirurgeon du roy) Animaux Monstres et Prodiges. 1954 Le Club
Francais Du Livre.
Lots of wonderful illustrations. Introduction to chirurgerie,
Of animals, Of Monsters and Wonders, the Ways and means of
adjusting natural ans accidental faults - Chapter 1 - the
eyes, 2- nose, 3- teeth, 4- making speech better formed 5-
for the cut tongue 6 - false ear 7- hearing 8- for the bent
spine? 9- incontinence 10- to mend a thumb 11 -or finger,
a false foot, 12- false arms and legs, 13- crutches. Of venom,
stings, mad dogs etc. A discourse on mummy. A discourse on
the unicorn (horned animals). Table of indications. Table
of the five sences.
3. The Apologie and Treatise Containing the voyages made into
divers places with many of his writings upon Surgery, Ambrose
Paré (1537-1564), edited by Geoffrey Keynes, Dover
Publications, New York, 1968, Library of Congress no. 68-14763
3a. Photocopies - The Apologie and Treatise of Ambrose Paré~104-107,
110-111, 118-19, 128-129, 158-159, 182-197 ~1561?~Ambrose
Paré~Falcoln Educational Books~1951~Illustrations of
surgical equipment and Cataracts and Cutting for the stone
- use of surgical equipment~~Geoffrey Keynes.
4. Three and Fifty Instruments of Chirurgery, Ambrose Paré
(pub in English 1631), English Experience Series No. 141,
Da Capo Press, New York 1975
An explanation of the fashion and use of three and fifty instruments
of Chirurgery Gathered out of Ambrose Pareus. the famouse
French Chirurgion, and done into English, for the behoose
of yong practitioners in Practitioners in Chirurgery, by H.C.
1631. Lots of good illustrations with explanations of their
use.(Fac)
4a. Photocopies - (Ten Books of Surgery) with The Magazine
of the Instruments for It~211-263~1569~Ambrose Paré~University
of Georgia Press, Athens USA~1969~A list of surgical instruments
from the 16th Century with their uses~~Rober White Linker
and Nathan Womack.(Fac)
5. Galen - On Anatomical Proceedures - Translation of the
surviving books with Introduction and notes. Charles Singer,
OUP, 1999 (reprint of the 1956 edition) ISBN 0-19-924016-7
A series of lectures on anatomy by Galen (129?-200? AD) delivered
in the Greek language in Rome 177AD. Book 1 - On dissection
in general and on muscles and ligaments of upper limbs in
particular. Book 2 - On muscles and ligaments of lower limbs.
Book 3 - Nerves veins and arteries of hand and foot. Book
4 - Muscles of face, head, neck and shoulders. Book 5 - Muscles
of thorax, abdomen, loins and spine. Book 6 - On the alimentary
organs. Book 7 - Heart, lungs and arteries. Book 8 - The remaining
thoracic organs. Book 9 - On the brain.
5a. Guydos Questions
Newly Corrected, Guido De Cauliaco 1579, ,English Experience
Series No 35, Pages: 390 , Pub: 1968, ISBN: 90 221 0035 9
(Fac)
5b.. A Needefull,
New, and Necessarie Treatise of Chyrurgerie, Banister John
1575, English Experience Series No 300, Pages: 324 Pub: 1971,
ISBN: 90 221 0300 5 (Fac)
6. On Surgery and Instruments, Albucasis, trans and notes
by M Spink & G Lewis, University of Calafornia Press,
1973 ISBN 0 520 01532 0
An Arabic work on surgery trans into Latin 1350+ in print
in 1497. Chapters on cauterisation, incision, perforation
and venesection and wounds and the like; on bone-setting.
with shadow illustrations of instruments,
6a. A Profitable
and Necessarie Booke of Observations, Clowes William 1596,
English Experience Series No 366, Pages: 232 Pub: ISBN: 1971
90 221 0366 8 (Fac)
7. The Whole Course of Chirurgerie, Peter Lowe, 1597/1612,
The Classics of Medicine Library, 1981, Leslie B Adams Jr.,
Birmingham Alabama.
The Whole Course of Chirurgerie, wherin is briefly set dewne
the Cause, Signes, Pronostications & Cuations of all sorts
of Tumors, Wounds, Fractures, Dislocations & other diseases
usually practised by chirurgeons, according to the opinion
of our ancient doctors in Chirurgerie.(Fac)
The book consists of a facsimile of the 1597 first edition
by Peter Lowe, Scotchman, Arellian, Doctor in the Facultie
of Chirurgerie in PARIS and chirurgian ordinarie to the most
victorious and christian King of Fraunce and Navarre. WHEREUNTO
IS ANNEXED THE prefages of Diuine Hippocrates. Also are added
a facsimile of the engraving from the second edition of 1612.
It is stylled as a question and answer session betweenn Peter
Lowe, the scolar and John Cointret, the Deane of the facultie
of chirurgerie in Paris
The book is divided into ten Treatises:
1). The First Treatise of Chirurgerie
2). The Secoind Treatise of unnatural thinges, the consideration
wherof is most needfull for the preservation of health.
3). The third treatise of things altogether contrary to our
nature
4). The fourth treatise of tumors and apostumes, against nature
in generall.
5). The fift Treatise of Tumors in particular
6). The sixt Treatise of Woundes
7). The seaventh Treatise of Ulsers
8). The seventh (sic) Treatise of fractures and dislocations
9). The eight Treatise of divers operations Chirurgicall
10). The ninth treatise of Antidotaries chirurgicall
8. Photocopies - The Task of Healing~211-251~1450-1800~Hilary
Marland and M. Pelling~Erasmus Publishing~1996~An analysis
of the allegory of Dutch paintings of this period~Panteleon
Reeks No 24.
9. The Medieval Surgery, Tony Hunt, Boydell Press, Woodbridge,
1992 ISBN 085115324 0 (Fac)
10. Photocopies - Of Wounds, of Gun-Shot Wounds, of Fractures
and Luxations~xiv - xvii & xxvi -xli~1676~Richard Wiseman~Kingsmead~1977~Part
intro with reference to other surgical works, Biographical
Appendix, Glossary of surgical/medical terms~~John Kirkup.(Fac)
11. Photocopies - Seventeenth-century English surgery: the
casebook of John Binns~48-81~1633-1663~Lucinda McCray Beier~Routledge~Modern~A
survey of the cases of the surgeon Binns in Medical Theory,
Surgical Practise~ Christopher Lawrence.
12. Selected Writings of William Clowes (1544-1604)~FNL Poynter,
Harvey & Blythe Ltd~1948
A short biography of the famous surgeon William Clowes who
learnt his craft in land and naval warfare. he became surgeon
at St Bartholemew's and at Christ's Hospital and later one
of the Queen's surgeons. This is followed by a selection of
cases.
12a. Photocopies - Surgical Equipment illustrations~147 &
149~1544-1604~William Clowes~~Illustrations of Surgical Instruments~Selected
Writings of William Clowes~FNL Poynter, Harvey & Blythe
Ltd~1948
13. Photocopies - Surgions - excerpt from On a Tudor Parade
Ground The Captain's Handbook of Henry Barrett 1562~42~1562~J.R.
Dale~Society of Renaissance Studies~1978~Description of the
need of an army surgion~The Society for Renaissence Studies
Occasional Papers No 5.
14. Photocopies - Medicine on Board (the Mary Rose)~186-196~1545~~The
Mary Rose Trust~~
A description of the contents of the Barber Surgeons cabin
and chest found on the Mary Rose which sank in 1545~The Mary
Rose.
14a. The Cyrurgie of Guy de Chauliac, Volume 1 text. Early
English Text Society No, 265, 1971
A Middle English translation. The original was written in
1363. Book 1 - anatomie, 2 - apostumes and pustules and things
coming outward!, 3- wounds simple and counpound, 4 - ulcers,
5- broken bones and bones out of joint, 6- others, 7- an antidoterie.
14b. A treatise of one hundred and thirteen diseases of the
eyes, Richard Banister, 1622, Facsimile edition English Experience
Series No 297, Da Capo Press 1971, ISBN 90 221 0297 1
Second edition from a copy in the Bodlean Library, Oxford
and quire e from the Syndics Library, Cambridge. Although
much of this work is a tranlation of Guillemeau, the first
112 pages are Banisters own work 'Banister's Breviary'. He
was an itinerant, but honest (aren't we all?), oculist; he
noticed the hardness of the eye in glaucoma.(Fac)
Guilds / Companies
15. Photocopies - The Company of Barber Surgeons 1540-1745~36-57~1540-1745~Jessie
Dobson & R. Miles Walker~~Modern~
A description of the Company of Barber Surgeons of London~Barbers
and Barber Surgeons of London.
15a. Photocopies - The Barber- Surgeon of York, Margaret C
Barnett contained in Medical History Vol XII 1968, The Wellcome
Institute for the History of Medicine, London
Short Description of the Company of Barber- Surgeons and their
members.
16. Photocopies - The Barbers Incorporate~51-143~1448-1666~Young~Blade
Last & Blades~1890~
A history of the Barber Surgeons as written in the minute
books of the Company - The Annals of the Barber-Surgeons of
London.
Herbals and Recipes
17. Old English
Herbarium and Medicina de Quadrupedibus. by deVriend (Hubert
Jan), editor: The Early English Text Society, 1984.
The herbal is written in Middle English (late West Saxon)
with a glossary gving Latin and Modern English Herb names.
The sources of the information date back to AD 100-200.
17a. A Litle Herbal
of the properties of the herbes 1561? , Askham, Anthony, English
Experience Series No 843. Pages: 164 Pub 1977 ISBN: 90 221
0843 0 (Fac)
17b. The boke of secretes, Albertus Magnus, 1525 (1565), English
Experience Series No. 116, Da Capo Press, New York 1969,
ISBN 90 221 0116 9 (Fac)
18. The Elixirs of Nostradamus, edited by Knut Boeser, Moyer
Bell 1996, ISBN 1-55921-155-5 (cloth)
Originally published in French in 1552. Better known for his
prophesies he was also one of the most impportant healers
and doctors of his time. These are recipes for elixirs, scented
waters, beauty potions and sweetmeats. There are also some
beautiful illustrations in colour by Leonhard Fuchs (1501-1554)
not in any way directly related to the text!
18a. Newe Jewell of Health, Gesner, translated George Baker
1576, English Experience Series No. 381, Da Capo Press, New
York 1971 (Fac)
18b. Treasure of
Euonymus: Conteyninge the Hid Secretes of Nature, Gesner Conrad
1559,English Experience Series No 97 , Pages: 428, Pub:1969,
ISBN: 90 221 0097 9 (Fac)
18c. Oleum Magistrale,
Baker George,1574, English Experience Series No 123, Pages
104 , Pub 1969, ISBN: 90 221 0123 1 (Fac)
19. The Chyrurgeons Closet, Bonham ed Edward Poeton 1630,
English Experience Series No. 31, Da Capo Press, New York
1968 ISBN: 90 221 0031 6 (Fac)
19a. An Introduction
into Phisycke, Langton Christopher 1550?, English Experience
Series No.281, Pages:188, Pub: 1970 ISBN: 90 221 0281 5 (Fac)
19b. Phisicall and
Approved Medicines, Gardiner Edmund 1611, English Experience
Series No. 191, Pages: 128, Pub: 1969, ISBN: 90 221 0191 6
(Fac)
20. Complete Herbal and English Physician, Culpepper, 1653,
reprint by Kynoc Press, Birmingham for the Imperial Chemical
Company, 1953, no ISBN
20a. Joyfull newes
out of the newe Founde Worlde, Monardes Nicolas 1577, English
Experience Series No.251, Pages: 118, Pub: 1970 ISBN: 90 221
0251 3 (Fac)
21. Complete Herbal &English Physician, Culpepper, 1653,
reprint by Wordsworth Editions Ltd, Ware, 1995 ISBN 1-85326-345-1
22. Culpepper's Medicine - A Practice of Western Holistic
Medicine~~1650~Graeme Tobin~Element~1997~
A short biography of Nicolas Culpepper. Plus a number of useful
tables and quotations from Culpepper. Interpretation is on
the basis of modern holistic medicine so beware.
23. A Most excellent Homish Apothecarye, Hieronymus von Braunschweig
tr J Hollybush 1561, Da Capo Press, New York 1968 (Fac)
24. Of the Historie of Plants commonly know as Gerard’s
Herbal, John Gerard, 1597, Marcus Woodward, Studio Editions,
1994, ISBN 1 85958 051 3 (Fac)
25. The Herbal Remedies of the Physicians of Myddfai, trans
J Pughe from the Red Book in Jesus College,Oxford 1861, edD
Bryce, Llanerch Enterprises, Lampeter, Wales, 1989
25a. An Aztec herbal, the classic codex of 1552, Translation
and commentary by William Gates, Introduction by Bruce Byland,
Dover Publications 2000, (a reprint of that published by the
Maya Society in 1939)
Written in Nahuatl, the Aztec language at the College of Santa
Cruz, in Tlatelolco in the 25 year old colony called New Spain
(now Mexico) ny Martin de la Cruz , an Aztec Physician. A
latin translation by Juan Badiano, an Aztec nobleman and professor
at the college was sent to Spain in 1552 and eventually ended
up in the vatican library. It was returned to Mexico by Pope
John Paul II in 1991. Orignially entitled 'Libellus de Medicinalibus
Indorum Herbis'. Like most herbals there is a description
of the herb, its Aztec name, and what it will cure but also
a black and white illustration (colour in the original). There
is Analystical Index giving the latin names of the plants.
26. A Compendyous Regyment or A Dyetary of Helth, in Andrew
Boorde’s Works, Andrew Boorde - 1547, The Early English
Text Society 1870.
Chapter 1- 6 Of the siting, building and ordering of a man's
house {The first guide to Fung Sui in the English language
! : ) }, 7 - exercise, 8- sleeping and watching and wearing
of apparell, 9- abstynence is the best medyson, 10- Of the
maner of drinks, 11- 22 Food, 23-39 All maner of dyets, 40
How a sycke man be ordered in his syckness. And how a sycke
man shuld be vsed that is lykly to dye.
Medical casebooks
27. Select Observations on English Bodies, John Hall, in John
Hall and his patients, The Medical Practice of Shakespeare’s
Son-in-Law, ed Joan Lane (History) and Melvin Earles (Medical),
The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Stratford upon Avon and
Alan Sutton
27a. The Boke of Chyldren, Thomas Phaire (d 1560), ed AV Neale
& HRE Wallis, E&S Livingstone, 1955
The first book on paediatrics it lists the various cure for
childhood ailments and infirmities also recipes for increasing
milk at the breast. The editors however know little of the
conditions of those days since they claim that the cause of
ulceration of the head is sides of bacon or salt beef falling
on children's heads!! They would be killed poor dears. It
is in fact cause by the salt water falling on the head!!
27b. Midwifery and Medicine in Early Modern France, Wendy
Perkins, University of Exeter Press, 1996, ISBN 0 85989 471
1
The author writes of the published works of Louise Bourgeois,
the midwife to Marie de Medici, Queen of France from 1601
to 1609, delivering all six of Marie's children.
27c. The sicke womens
private looking glasse . Diease arrising from the wombe, Sadler
John 1636, English Experience Series No 891 , Pages: 196,
Pub:1977 ISBN: 90 221 0891 0 (Fac)
28. Treatises of Fisula in Ano Haemorrhoids and Clysters,
John Arderne, 1370?, ed Darcy Power, Oxford University Press
for the Early English Text Society.
28a. Bulleins bulwarke
of defence againste all sicknes sornes and woundes, Bullein
William 1562?, English Experience Series No 350 , Pages: 488,
Pub: 1971 ISBN: 90 221 0350 1 (Fac)
29. Treatise for the Artificiall Cure of Struma, William Clowes,
1602, English Experience Series No, Da Capo Press, New York
1970. ISBN: 90 221 0238 6 (Fac)
29a The King's Evil, Frank Barlow in The English Historical
Review Vol XCV No 374 Jan 1980
A review of the Kings Evil through history.
30. Cristofano and the Plague, A Study of Public Health in
the Age of Galileo, Carlo Cipola, Collins London, 1973, ISBN
0 00 211191 8
30a. Present remedies against the Plague etc, with an introduction
by W.P. Barrett,
The Shakespeare Assocation Facsimilies No. 7, OUP 1933.
An introduction followed by the title pamphlet and 'Orders
thought Meete by her Maiestie, and her privie Counsell, to
be executed throughout the Counties of this realme...' &
'An advice set down by her Maiesties expresse commandement,
by the best learned in Physicke within this Realme, conteyning
sundry good rules and easie medicines, without charge to the
meaner sort of people, as well as for preservation of her
good subiects from the Plague before infection, as for curing
and ordering of them after they shall be infected.' (Fac)
31. The Black Death, in the Manchester Medieval Sources Series,
ed. And trans by R. Horrox, Manchester University Press, 1994,
ISBN 0-7190-3497-3 hardback 0 7190 3498-1 paperback 1995.
British narrative comments on the Black Death. Including narrative
accounts from Europe and the British Isles; Explanations and
responces - religious, scientific, human agency; The impact
of the plague; Repercussions.
31a. The Impact of the Plague in Tudor and Stuart England,
Paul Slack, 1985 Routledge & Kegan Paul, ISBN 0-7102-046-8
32. The French Pox, Hugh Petrie, Stuart Press, Bristol 1999,
ISBN 1 85804 142 2
33. Syphilis in Shakespeare’s England, J. Fabricus,
Jessica Kingsley, London, 1994, ISBN 1-85302-270-5 pb
34. Sure Methods of Attaining a Long and Healthful Life, Lewis
Cornaro, 1558, Reprint ed G A Williams, Longman 1823.
34a. The Well of the Woman Hill Besyde Abirdene, Gilbert Skeyne
1580, English Experience Series No. 104, Da Capo Press, New
York 1969. The use of baths and mineral water to cure many
diseases and infirmaties.(Fac)
35. A breuyary of Health, extracts from, Andrew Boorde - 1547,
in Andrew Boorde’s Works, The Early English Text Society
1870.
Treatments for various ailments
35a. Fundamenta Medicinae, Friedrich Hoffmann 1695, translated
and introduced by LS King, Macdonald, London, History of Science
Library: Primary Sources, 1971
ISBN 356 03478 X
Contains chapters on Physiology, Medical Pathology, Semiotics,
Medical Hygiene and Therapeutics
35b. The School of Salernum - Regimen Sanitatis Salerni, Englished
by Sir John Harington, godson of Queen Elizabeth (of York,
ie Henry VII's wife) and famed for his flush toilet, published
in 1607, Christengraf, Roma, Italy No Date of publication
or ISBN
A set of useful aphorisms for good health produced by the
Medical School at Salerno for the use of patients after they
had left, translated and amplified in many languages. Some
of which I use in my character notes.
36. Photocopies - The English Sweating Sickness of 1551: an
Epidemic Anatomized~362-384~1551~Alan Dyer~The Wellcome Institute
for the History of medicine~July 1997~Tracing the epidemic~Medical
History~W F Bynum & V Nutton.
36a. Henry VIII: A difficult patient, Sir Arthur S MacNulty,
1952, Christopher Johnson, London
"It is the purpose of this book to demonstrate that the
problem of King Henry's behaviour is more complex than the
extremists (pro and anti- historians) on either side have
assumed; and that the state of his health and illness are
of greater importence than has been supposed in the estimation
of his rule and policy.
Toothdrawing and Dentistry
37. Antique Dental Instruments, Elizabeth Bennion, Sotheby’s
Publications, 1986, ISBN 0 85667 310 2.
38. La Chirurgion Dentist, Pierre Fauchard, Facsimile of the
1728 edition, trans by Lindsay 1946,The Classics of Dentistry
Library, Birmingham Alabama, 1980.
39. Photocopies - The Reputability of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth
Century Toothdrawers~5-10~1400-1630~A. S. Hargreaves~Lindsay
Society~1993~A description of itinerant toothdrawers~Dental
Historian.
Mental Illness
40. The Passions of the Minde in generall, Thomas Wright 1604,
reprint, ed. Thomas Sloane, University of Illinois Press,
1971, Library of Congress no. 78-139807 252 00147 8
41. Lifes Preservative Against Self Killing, John Sym, 1637,
Facsimile, ed Michael McDonald, Routledge, 1988, ISBN 0-415-00639-2
Medicine General
42. The Common Lot - Sickness medical Occupations and the
Urban Poor in Early Modern England, a collection of Essays
by Margaret Pelling, Longman London and New York, 1998, ISBN
0-582-23183-3 CSD 0-582-23182-5 PPR
43. Photocopies - Knowledge common and aquired: the education
of unlicenced Medical Practitioners in early modern London~250-279~1550-1640~M.
Pelling~Rodopi~1995~History of medical skills aquired outside
the licenced Companies~in The History of Medical Education
in Britain~Vivian Nutton and Roy Porter.
44. Photocopies - Occupational Diversity: Barber Surgeons
and the trades of Norwich 1550-1640~484-511~1550-1640~M. Pelling~The
John Hopkins University Press~1982~The other trades that were
undertaken in addition to being Barber Surgeons~Bulletin of
the History of Medicine.
45. The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Roy Porter, Harper Collins,
1997, ISBN 0 00 215173 1
46. Honey Mud Maggots and Other Medical Marvels, R & M
Root-Bernstein, MacMillan, London 1999 ISBN 0 333 75038 1
46a. The English Paracelsians, Allen Debus, The Watts History
of Science Library, 1966, Library of Congress No. 66-15981
A short biography of Paracelsus, Chapters on: the Elizabethen
compromise in the introduction of Chemical medicine; Paracelsiam
thought in England 1600-1640; Chemistry and medicine 1600-1640.
47. A History of Medicine, part 12 of the Illustrated Library
of Science and Invention, J Starobinski, Leisure Arts Ltd.
1964,
48. Medicine for the Soul, the Life, Death and Resurrection
of an English Medieval Hospital, C. Rawcliffe, Sutton, 1999
ISBN 0 7509 2009 2
49. Medicine & Society in Later Medieval England, C Rawcliffe,
Sutton 1997, ISBN 0-86299-598-1 hardback 0-7509-1497-1 paperback.
50. Shakespeare’s Physic, Lore and Love, J C Adams Author
and publisher, ISBN 1 85421 043 2
50a. Doctors and Disease in Tudor Times, WSC Copeman FRCP,
Dawson's of Pall Mall, London, 1960
A survey of the branches of medicine at that time largely
from the point of view of justification of the role of Physicians,
being one himself. Written before the modern understanding
of history and thus lacking in modern scolarship but useful
for references to early texts.
51. Devils, Drugs and Doctors, H Haggard, Heinmann, London,
1929
Chapters The conquest of death at birth; The story of anesthesia;
the progress of surgery; the passing of plague and pesitence;
the healing art; medicine through the ages
52. The Healers, the Doctor then and now, K. Pollak &
E Underwood, Nelson, London, 1968,
ISBN 17 147022 4
Chapters on: Primitive Physicians; Assyrian and Egyptian Doctors;
Doctors in India, China and Japan; From St Luke to the Middle
Ages; Anatomists and Physiologists; Doctors for the Rich and
for the poor; The beginning of medical reform.
53. Medicine, Cambridge Illustrated History of, ed. R Porter,
Cambridge University Press, 1996,
ISBN 0 521 44211 7
Articles on: The History of medicine; The rise of medicine;
What is disease?; Primary care; Medical science; Hospitals
and surgery; Drug treatment and the rise in pharmacology;
Mental illness;
54. Medieval medicine in Illuminated Manuscripts, P M Jones,
The British Library, 1998, ISBN 0 7123 0657 9
54a. The Enormities Comitted in Physick, John Securis 1566,
English Experience Series No. 830, Da Capo Press, New York
1976
He talks of the good advice given by Hippocrates and berates
all members of the meical profession for their shortcomings.
(Fac)
Medical Theory
55. Hippocrates Collected Works and Galen Collected Works,
ed M Hutchins, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc, 1984, ISBN 0-85229-163-9
56. The Mirror of Health, Food, Diet and Medical Theory 1450-1660,
Jane Huggett, Stuart Press, Bristol, 1995 ISBN 1 85804 076
0
56a. The historie of life and death, Bacon Francis,1638, English
Experience Series No 20 Pages: 336 Pub 1968 ISBN: 90 221 0020
0 (Fac)
Barbers and Hygiene
57. Beards, Reginald Reynolds, Allen & Unwin, 1950
57a. Did they wash in those days- Personal Hygiene, Cleanliness
& Washing 14th-17th Centuries? Jane Huggett, Stuart Press,
Bristol, ISBN 1 85804 161 9
Pamphlet. Just about says it all in the title
58. The Treatyse Answerynge the Boke of Berdes, Collyn Clowte
(Barnes), - 1547 in Andrew Boorde’s Works, The Early
English Text Society 1870.
A treatise otherwise called Barnes in defence of the beard.
An answer, in verse, to a lost work by Boorde, who apparently
condemned the wearing of beards
59. Photocopies - Bygone Beards~33-56~Various~William Andrews~J.R.
Tutin~1904~Styles of Beards in At the Sign of the Barbers
Pole.
60. Photocopies - The Barber's Shop~8-21~Various~William Andrews~J.R.
Tutin~1904~Details of the activities in a Barbers Shop~At
the Sign of the Barbers Pole.
Quacks
61. Quacks, Fakers and Charlatans in English Medicine, R Porter,
Tempus, Stroud, 2000, ISBN 0 7524 1776 2
Biographies
62. A Barber-Surgeon - A life of Ambrose Paré founder
of modern surgery, Jeanne Carbonnier, Pantheon Books, 1965.
Library of Congress no. 65-20653.
63. Paracelcus Magic into Science, Henry M. Pacher, Schuman,
New York, 1951
It would seen to be a fairly balanced Biography.
63a. The Life and Soul of Paracelcus, J. Hargrave, Gollantz,
1951.
64. Journal of an Younger Brother - the Life of Thomas Platter
as a Medical Student at Montpellier at the close of the 16th
C - 1595 , trans S. Jennett, Muller London, 1963
64a. Simon Foreman, Sex and Society in Shakepeare’s
Age, A L Rowse, Weidenfield & Nicolson, 1974,
ISBN 0 297 76741 0
Biography of Simon Foreman, medical practitioner and astrologer
drawn from his diary and autobigraphy. Foreman was a "cunning
man" who practiced astrology and medicine with many famous
patients. He was persecuted by the Company of Physicians.
65. Hamey the Stranger - a Flemish Physician who settled in
Elizabethan London - 1594, John Keevil, Geoffrey Bles - London,
1952
65a. The Diary of a Surgeon in the year 1751-1752, By John
Knyveton, Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries, Doctor
of Medicine of the University of Aberdeen, Techer of Widwifery
to & Man-midwife in Infirmary Hall; Surgeon's mate HMS
Lancaster. (so you see a specialist) Edited & transcribed
by Ernest Gray, D Appleton-Century Co Inc, New York, London
1938
Diary, thus no specfic details in contents.
66. The First Booke of the Introduction of Knowledge being
a handbook of Egypt, Europe, Barbery and Judea 1542, in Andrew
Boorde’s Works, The Early English Text Society 1870.
Dedicated to Lady Mary doughter of our souerayne Lorde king
Henry the viii. .. the whiche boke dothe teche a man to speake
parte of al maner of languages; and by it one may know the
vsage and fashyon os all maner of countres or regions, and
also know the most part of all maner of coynes of mony, that
which id current in euery prouince or region....
67. Photocopies - The Journal of James Young~18-20~1647~FNL
Poynter~Longmans~1948?~The horoscope of james Young, Plymouth
Surgeon.
Anatomy
68. A Short Introduction to Anatomy (Isagogae Breves), 1523,
Jacopo Berengario da Carpi trans LR Lind, University of Chicago
Press, 1959, Library of Congress no. 59-10426
Translation of an anatomical manual drawn from experience
but with respect for Galen. In four sections the Upper cavity,
the Middle cavity, the lower cavity and the extremities.
68a. Introduction to Anatomy 1532, David Edwardes, CD O'Malley
and KF Russell, Stanford University Press 1961
Introduction and Notes along with the facsimile Latin text
and an English translation. Sadly no pictires.
69. The Anatomical Drawings of Andreas Vesalius, ed J B &
C M Saunders & C D O’Malley, Bonanza Books, New
York, 1973, ISBN 0 517 356384
70. A profitable Treatise of the Anatomie of man’s body,
Thomas Vicary, 1577, The Early English Text Society 1870.
Portrait of Thomas Vicary Sergeant-Surgeon to four Monarchs.
Early plans of Barts, Norden's Map of London. Map of Vicary's
Road from London to Maidstone and Boxley ab. 1575, Map of
the neighbourhood of London ab. 1575, Vicary's Anatomie, Ships
&c. from Saxton's maps ab. 1575, Grants and payments to
Vicary from Kings and Queens, Extracts from City records as
to Barts, Vicary, the Plague, London Vagabonds, &c, Vicary's
Bailiff's accounts of Boxley manor, Dunkyn's £100 mortgage
to Vicary 7th March 1557-8, Vicary's Will 27th Jan 1561-2,
Henry VIII's statutes relating to Surgeons, Supplement to
statutes: the Surgeon's compromise with the City as to serving
on quests &c, Ten recipes ny henry VIII and his Physicians,
Poem - 'What veins do bleed in' &c, Payments to surgeons
in 1529-43 by Henry VIII &c, Pay of Army and Navy Surgeons
to Hen VIII, Some of Hen VIII payment to Holbein and players.
The 185 Freemen of the Barber Surgeon's Company in 1537; the
nos. of other City Companies, Ordinances of the Barber Surgeons
of London 1529 &c, Ordinances of the Barber Surgeons of
York 1592 &c, Order for the governemtn of Barts 1552.
70a. Photocopies - The Anatomie of the body of Man~17-86~1548/1577~Thomas
Vicary~Early English Text Society~1888~A description of the
various parts of the body by Thomas Vicary and a portrait
plus coat of arms~~Frederick T. Furnivall and Percy Furnivall.
71. Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals, William Harvey,
Translated from the Latin by Robert Willis with an Introduction
by EA Parkyn. Everyman's Library 1906?
72. Photocopies - Early Ideas and theories on the motion of
the blood~70-77~300BC-1869AD~Dr Karl Zurbach~CIBA Institute~1939-40~Historical
survey of theories concerning the circulation of the blood
Astrology
73. Astrology and the Seventeenth Century Mind, William Lilly
and the Language of the Stars, Ann Geneva, Manchester University
Press 1995, ISBN 0 7190 4154 6.
73a. Photocopies. A Zodical Lunary for Medical Professionals,
Irma Taavitsainen, in Popular and Practical Science of Medieval
England , ed Lister M Matheson, Colleagues Press, Date?
Drawn from the Guild-Book of the Barber-Surgeon of York. A
use of Astrology for finding aupicious days for treatment
etc.
74. A Jerusalem Christian Treatise on Astrology, trans from
Arabic by Gladys Dickson, Sure Fire Press, 1989. ISBN 1-55818-115-6
Literature (Quotes, Plays and Poems)
on Medical Themes
75. A Dialogue Against the Fever Pestilende, Willaim Bullein
1578, ed. M & A Bullen, Reprint, Early English Text Society
1888.
76. The Doctor’s Quotation Book, A Medical Miscellany,
ed. R. Wilkins, Hale, London, 1991, ISBN 0 7090 4610 3
77. Shakespeare’s Insults for Doctors, W. Hill &
C Ottchen, Edbury Press, London, ISBN 0 09 180965 7
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