John Woodall, The Surgeon's Mate (1617)

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Date
1617
Author
John Woodall Note: 15/10/2005
Lexicon title
The termes of art recited formerly in verse, are heere againe repeated Alphabetically, and more plainely interpreted
Book title
The Svrgions Mate, or A Treatise Disco­uering faithfully and plainely the due contents of the Svrgions Chest, the vses of the Instruments, the vertues and operations of the Medicines, the cures of the most frequent diseases at Sea: Namely Wounds, Apostumes, Vlcers, Fistulaes, Frac­tures, Dislocations, with the true maner of Amputation, the cure of the Scuruie, the Fluxes of the belly, of the Collica and Illiaca Passio, Tenasmus, and exitus Ani, the Callenture; with a Brief Explanation of Sal, Sulphur, and Mercury; with certaine Characters, and tearmes of Arte. Published chiefly for the benefit of young Sea-Surgions, imployed in the East-India Companies affaires.
Publication place
London
Printer
Edward Griffin
Publisher
Laurence Lisle
Transcription source
British Library C.123.e.9
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
  • medicine
  • navigation and the sea
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Extent
338-48
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: Cohobation is frequent abstraction of liquour oftentimes affused vpon a dead head or drie feces by distillation. (ss3r)
Schafer
1617 W
STC
25962
Other editions
1655: Wing W3421
Facsimiles
Woodall, John. The Surgions Mate by John Woodall: A Complete Facsimile of the Book Published in 1617. Ed. John Kirkup. Bath: Kingsmead, n.d. view record
Criticisms
Appleby, John H. "New Light on John Woodall, Surgeon and Adventurer." Medical History 25.3 (1981): 251-68. view record
Debus, Allen G. "John Woodall, Paracelsian Surgeon." Ambix 10.3 (1962): 108-18. view record
Keevil, J. J. "Medicine and the Navy, 1200-1900." 4 vols. view record