John Tanner, The Hidden Treasures of the Art of Physic (1659)

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Date
1659
Author
Lexicon title
A Table explaining the Terms of Art and other Words, which are not in the reach of Vulgar Capacities. .... A Table, explaining the Names of such Simples as are unknown to the Vulgar.
Book title
The Hidden Treasures of the Art of Physick; Fully Discovered: In Four Books. 1 Containing a Physical Description of Man. 2 The Causes, Signes, and Cures of all Diseases, incident to the Body. 3 The general Cure of Wounds, Tumours, and ulcers. 4 A general Rule, for making all kind of Medicines; with the use and Nature of distilled Waters, Juyces, Decoctions, Conserves, Powders, Elestuaries, Plaisters, &c. To which is added three necessary Tables, 1 Sheweth the Contents of the Four Books. 2 Explaineth all the Terms of Art which are used in Physick and Chirurgery. 3 Explaining the Nature and use of Simples, what they are, and where they grow
Publication place
London
Publisher
George Sawbridge
Transcription source
EEBO/TCP
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
  • herbal
  • medicine
Summary
Terms of art in medicine, surgery, and herbals.
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Extent
(a) Ll7r-Nn2v; (b) Nn3r-7r
Word-group
type: alphabetical
number: 38
Word-entry
type: headword
number: 570
sample: (a) ABdomen, the Belly or Paunch. (b) ACacia is a Liquor drawn out of the Fruit of a Tree, called by that name, growing in Egypt, and another in Pontus, but more commonly it is taken for the Pulp of Sloes.
Wing
T136
Other editions
1672: Wing T 137