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WOODALL, John (1556–1643)
The surgeons mate or Military & domestique surgery.
Discovering faithfully & plainly the method and order of the surgeons
chest, the uses of the instruments, the vertues and operations of the
medicines, w[i]th the exact cures of wounds made by gun­shott, and
otherwise as namely: wounds, apostumes, ulcers, Wstula’s, fractures,
dislocations, w[i]th the most easie & safest wayes of amputation or
dismembring, The cures of the scurvey, of the Xuxes of the belly, of
the collicke and iliaca passio, of tenasmus and exitus ani, and of the
calenture, with A treatise of the cure of the plague.
London: printed by Rob: Young [, J. Legate? and E. Purslowe], for
Nicholas Bourne, and are to be sold at his shop at the south entrance of the
Royall Exchange, 1639.
Folio: A–B6 C–G8 H–O4 P6 2A–2R4 ; 6 ; 3A–3O4 3P–3R², 206 leaves,
pp. [36] 26 [6] 27–98 141–275 [1]; [12]; 301–412 [12]. Without the
Epistle to Clitherow found in some copies. Engraved title on A1
signed ‘G. Glover fecit’; woodcut headpieces and initials. Woodcut of
the allegorical Wgure of Mercury on p. 225; woodcut astrological and
alchemical symbols on pp. 248–60. 1, title page to ‘Viaticum’ with
imprint ‘printed by E. P. for Nicholas Bourne’; 3C2r, titlepage, ‘A
Treatise, faithfull and plainely declaring the way of preventing’; 3K3r,
titlepage ‘A treatise on gangrena,’ the last two with imprint ‘printed by
E. P. for Nicholas Bourne’. The inserted leaf after A4 is a poem ‘To
his very worthy and entirely respected friend and brother’.
6 insets: engraved equestrian portrait of Charles I (frontispiece);
folding plate of instruments (after D1v, the instruments are described
in the preceding pages); engraved plate to ‘Enema fumosum’ (after
p. 26); folding letterpress chart of the surgeons’ chest (after p. 26);
engraved plate of trepanning instruments (after p. 312); engraved plate
of amputation instruments (after p. 412).
305 x 195mm. Frontispiece and titlepage heavily stained, slightly
defective in the margins and reinforced on versos, these and the
additional leaf in sig. A and plate facing p. 312, also heavily stained
in the margins, have been extended in the lower margins and are
apparently supplied from another copy; plate facing p. 26 cut close
to the margins and mounted; some light soiling and staining, but
otherwise a fairly fresh copy.
Binding: Contemporary blind ruled calf. Rebacked, one corner
restored, two others very worn; new endleaves.
Provenance: Contemporary prescriptions on the verso of the
frontispiece, which as noted above may come from a diVerent copy
from the rest of the book.
Second, enlarged edition (Wrst 1617). A reprint of this second edition was
published in 1655. STC 25963; ESTC S95910; Krivatsy 13141.