The English-mans treasure : with the true anatomie of mans body / compiled by ... Mr. Thomas Vicary, Esquire ... ; whereunto are annexed many secrets appertaining to chyrurgerie, with divers excellent approved remedies.

Profitable treatise of the anatomie of mans body

Printed at London : By B. Alsop and Tho. Favvcet ..., 1641.

11 unnumbered pages, 292 pages, 15 unnumbered pages : illustrations

And now ninthly much augmented, corrected and enlarged ...

First published as: A profitable treatise of the anatomie of mans body, 1548. The earliest extant ed. is of 1577. Cf. 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. Fioravanti (London, 1580) and W. Ward's translation of The secretes of ... Alexis of Piemont [i.e., Girolamo Ruscelli?] (London, 1562).

Reproduction of original in Cambridge University Library.

Includes index.

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

"A necessary and briefe relation of the contagious disease of the pestilence ... by W. Boraston": p. 273-292.

Wing V334

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 441:21) s1999 miun s