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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 on 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 specific 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
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