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5. CORPORA AND METHODOLOGY<br />

Table 3. Information provided in EMEMT for Bailey’s Preseruation of eie-sight<br />

Author<br />

Walter Bailey [Bayley, Baley]<br />

Full title of text TREATISES CONCERNING the Preseruation of EIE-SIGHT. The<br />

first written by Doctor BAILY sometimes of Oxford: the other<br />

collected out of those two famous Phisicions FERNELIVS and<br />

RIOLANVS.<br />

Year of publication 1616 (4 th ed.)<br />

Publishing information Originally Oxford: By Ioseph Barnes [i.e. G. Eld], for Iohn Barnes<br />

[in London]<br />

Catalogue number STC (2 nd ed.) 1196<br />

Physical description Octavo, [6], 62, [2] pp.<br />

Source copy<br />

Facsimile edition, The English experience No. 709, Norwood, NJ<br />

and Amsterdam: Walter J. Johnson and Theatrum Orbis Terrarum,<br />

1975.<br />

File name in EMEMT 1616_Bailey_PreseruationOfEiesight<br />

Word count 10,355<br />

Description of the text Treatise on ocular health.<br />

Contents<br />

The first part of the book advises on ways to preserve the health of<br />

the eyes, including proper regimen of life and various medicines<br />

and how to prepare them. The second part discusses diseases of<br />

the eyes and their treatment with recipes for medicines.<br />

Parts included<br />

Almost the entire book, except the last eight pages.<br />

Additional information An edition, with additions, of A briefe treatise touching the<br />

preservation of the eie sight (1 st ed. 1586). The first part is<br />

ascribed to Bailey and, according to the title page, the second part<br />

is compiled from Riolan's and Fernelius's works.<br />

Link to ESTC<br />

http://estc.bl.uk/S114909<br />

Link to EEBO<br />

http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-<br />

2003&res_id=xri:eebo&rft_id=xri:eebo:citation:99850131<br />

Biographical<br />

Walter Bailey (author)<br />

information<br />

Dates of birth and death 1529-1592/3<br />

About the author Bailey was an English physician and author. He studied at<br />

Winchester College and New College, Oxford, where he<br />

graduated BA, MA and MB. He was as a professor of medicine at<br />

Oxford and was awarded his MD there. He was also fellow of the<br />

College of Physicians and a physician to Queen Elizabeth I and<br />

Earl of Leicester. Bailey published and compiled several books on<br />

a variety of medical subjects.<br />

Texts by the same Walter Bailey: Mithridatium (1585)<br />

author in EMEMT Walter Bailey: Three kindes of peppers (1588)<br />

Link to Dictionary of http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/1757<br />

National Biography<br />

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