Full title: A worthy treatise of the eyes [electronic resource] : contayning the knowledge and cure of one hundred and thirtene diseases, incident vnto them: first gathered & written in French, by Iacques Guillemeau, chyrurgion to the French King, and now translated into English, togeather with a profitable treatise of the scorbie; & another of the cancer by A.H. Also next to the treatise of the eies is adoiyned a work touching the preseruation of the sight, set forth by VV. Bailey. D. of Phisick.

Author/creator: Weyer, Johann, 1515-1588. Medicarum observationum rararum, Textor, Benoît, active 16th century. De cancri natura et curatione, Hunton, Anthony, Early English Books Online, Guillemeau, Jacques, 1550?-1613.

Date: [1587?].

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Record Identifier: 74VMlzG0bkPX

Language: English

Formats: ebooks

Contents: [312] p.

Publishers: [London] : Printed by Robert Waldegraue for Thomas Man and VVilliam Brome, [1587?]

Notes: A translation by Anthony Hunton of: Guillemeau, Jacques. Traité des maladies de l'oeil. Includes "A discourse of the scorby", translated from "Medicarum observationum rararum" by Johann Weyer; and "Of the nature and diuers kindes of cancers or cankers", translated from "De cancri natura et curatione" by Benoît Textor; register is continuous throughout. Signatures: A-I¹² chiK¹² (-chiK12) K-M¹² . Numerous errors in pagination; pagination deduced from signature collation. See Poynter, F.N.L. Notes on a late-sixteenth-century ophthalmic work in English. The Library, ser. 5, 2 (1947), p. 173-9. Imperfect; lacks dedication, table of contents, and treatise by W. Bailey. Reproduction of the original in Cambridge University Library.

Citation / references note: STC (2nd ed.) 12499.

Additional physical form availability note: Also available in microfilm held offsite at RAV/FM4/56.

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