John XXI, The Treasury of Health (1550?)

Full Text
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Date
1553?
Author
Translator
Humphrey Lloyd Note: 11/10/2005
Lexicon title
(a) A Table conteyning the weightes which phisicyons do comenly vse, and the interpretacyon of the names of the compound medicynes herin conteyned wyth the quantitie & tyme that they ought to be receyued in. (b) All compounde medycynes be eyther receyuid wythin the body, or layd to the same without. & they whych be receyued into the body be these. (c) Here folow the compound medycynes whyche be applyed to the outwarde partes of the body.
Book title
The treasury of healthe conteynyng many profitable medycines gathered out of Hypocrates, Galen and Auycen, by one Petrus Hyspanus & translated into Englysh by Humfre Lloyde who hath added therunto the causes and sygnes of euerye dysease, wyth the Aphorismes of Hypocrates, and Iacobus de Partybus redacted to a certayne order according to the membres of mans body, and a compendiouse table conteynyng the purginge and confortatyue medycynes, wyth the exposicyon of certayne names & weyghtes in this boke contayned wyth an epystle of Diocles vnto kyng Antigonus.
Publication place
London
Publisher
William Copland
Transcription source
EEBO/TCP
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
  • medicine
  • weights and measures
Summary
Medical explanations of things or words, ending with a word-list or table of medicines
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Extent
f1v-f4v (second sequence of signatures)
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: Sinapismus is an emplaster made of mustard to vlcerate the skynne & make the same red. (f4r)
Schafer
1550 L
STC
14651.5
Other editions
1553: STC 14651.7;
1585: STC 14654
Criticisms
McConchie, R. W. Lexicography and Physicke: The Record of Sixteenth-century English Medical Terminology. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. 17. view record