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5. CORPORA AND METHODOLOGY<br />

Table 6. Number of words analyzed per text in the category of surgical treatises<br />

Period Year Title Author Words<br />

E1 1525 Handy warke of surgeri Braunschweig, 5,488<br />

(1500-<br />

1570) 1543 Most excellent workes of<br />

Hieronymus<br />

De Vigo,<br />

5,400<br />

chirurgerye<br />

Johannes<br />

1563 Institution of a chirurgian Gale, Thomas 5,427<br />

E2 1579 Qvydos qvestions Chauliac, Guy de 5,407<br />

(1570- 1612 Whole art of chyrvrgerie Lowe, Peter 5,445<br />

1640) 1630 Chyrvrgians closet Bonham,<br />

5,186<br />

Thomas<br />

E3 1650 Workes of that famous Read, Alexander 5,459<br />

(1640-<br />

1710) 1676<br />

physitian<br />

Of wounds Wiseman,<br />

5,522<br />

Richard<br />

1698 Novum lumen chirurgicum Colbatch, John 5,439<br />

Total 48,773<br />

Table 7. Number of words analyzed per text in the category of academic treatises<br />

Period Year Title Author Words<br />

E1 1552 Against sweatyng sicknesse Caius, John 7,543<br />

(1500- 1566 Dial for all agves Jones, John 7,849<br />

1570)<br />

E2 1586 Treatise of melancholy Bright, Timothy 5,122<br />

(1570- 1616 Preseruation of eie-sight Bailey, Walter 5,318<br />

1640) 1633 Gutta podagrica Holland,<br />

5,517<br />

Philemon<br />

E3 1662 Sixth book of practical physick Sennert, Daniel 5,351<br />

(1640- 1666 Morbus anglicus Harvey, Gideon 5,386<br />

1710) 1697 Continuation of the account of Cockburn,<br />

5,496<br />

distempers<br />

William<br />

Total 47,582<br />

As mentioned in Section 5.1.1 above, all examples from these texts will be<br />

preceded by the name of the author, the title, the year of publication and the category of<br />

medical writing to which the text belongs, as in (103) here:<br />

(103) The first Galen putteth in the vi. booke of his Theraperticke, and is<br />

such, for the Chyrurgions that be ignoraunt in the Anatomie, maye<br />

erre in many manners in their incision of sinues and their knittings,<br />

140

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