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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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