A profitable and necessarie booke of obseruations, for all those that are burned with the flame of gun powder, &c. : and also for curing of wounds made with musket and caliuer shot, and other weapons of war commonly vsed at this day both by sea and land, as heerafter shall be declared: vvith an addition of most approoued remedies, gathered for the good and comfort of many, out of diuers learned men both old and new writers: last of all is adioined a short treatise, for the cure of lues venerea, by vnctions and other approoued waies of curing, heertofore by me collected: and now againe newly corrected and augmented in the yeere of our Lorde 1596. By William Clowes one of hir Maiesties chirurgions.

  • Clowes, William, approximately 1540-1604.
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view A profitable and necessarie booke of obseruations, for all those that are burned with the flame of gun powder, &c. : and also for curing of wounds made with musket and caliuer shot, and other weapons of war commonly vsed at this day both by sea and land, as heerafter shall be declared: vvith an addition of most approoued remedies, gathered for the good and comfort of many, out of diuers learned men both old and new writers: last of all is adioined a short treatise, for the cure of lues venerea, by vnctions and other approoued waies of curing, heertofore by me collected: and now againe newly corrected and augmented in the yeere of our Lorde 1596. By William Clowes one of hir Maiesties chirurgions.

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A profitable and necessarie booke of obseruations, for all those that are burned with the flame of gun powder, &c. : and also for curing of wounds made with musket and caliuer shot, and other weapons of war commonly vsed at this day both by sea and land, as heerafter shall be declared: vvith an addition of most approoued remedies, gathered for the good and comfort of many, out of diuers learned men both old and new writers: last of all is adioined a short treatise, for the cure of lues venerea, by vnctions and other approoued waies of curing, heertofore by me collected: and now againe newly corrected and augmented in the yeere of our Lorde 1596. By William Clowes one of hir Maiesties chirurgions. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Prooved practise for all young chirurgians, concerning burnings with gunpowder
Profitable and necessarie booke of observations, for all those that are burned with the flame of gun powder, &c

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Imprinted at London : By Edm. Bollifant, for Thomas Dawson, 1596.

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4 unnumbered pages, 52, 57-229 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 4to (20 cm)

Notes

A revised edition of "A prooved practise for all young chirurgians, concerning burnings with gunpowder", with an enlarged edition of "A short and profitable treatise touching the cure of the disease called morbus Gallicus by unctions."
"A briefe and necesary treatise, touching the cure of the disease now vsually called lues venerea" has separate dated title page; pagination and register are continuous.
Signatures: A-2F4.

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STC (2nd ed.), 5445.5
ESTC (RLIN), S108096

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