Timothe Bright, doctor of phisicke : a memoir of "the father of modern shorthand" / by William J. Carlton.

  • Carlton, William J. (William John), 1886-1973.
Date:
1911
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Credit: Timothe Bright, doctor of phisicke : a memoir of "the father of modern shorthand" / by William J. Carlton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    day. Here it was that, in the midst of family cares, he pursued his professional and literary labours. The reception accorded to his firstling must have been on the whole favourable, for within a short time after its publication we find him engaged upon a second and more elaborate work, this time written in Latin. It is a book in two parts, on the preservation and the restora- tion of health. The first part, entitled Hygieina, id est de sanitate tuenda medicince pars prima, is assigned in the British Museum catalogue to 1581 ; but it did not appear until the following year, as an entry in the register of the Stationers’ Company proves : “ vltimo Die marcij [1582] “ Thomas Man. Licenced to him vnder th[e h]ande of master Dewce a booke intituled De sanitate tuenda medicince pars prima Authore Timotheo Brighto medicince Doctore vjd.”1 The preface to Hygieina confirms the supposition that its author gave medical lectures at Cambridge, for he states that he had been importuned to publish the notes from which he taught. More than a year elapsed before the appearance of the second part of the work, entitled Medicince therapevticce pars; de dyscrasia corporis hvmani, which is thus entered in the Stationers’ register : “ Decimo Sexto Die Augusti [1583] “ Thomas Man / Licenced vnto him vnder the wardens handes Medicince Therapeuticce pars per Tymotheum Brightus vjd/”2 1 Arber’s Transcript, etc., vol. ii., p. 409. 2 Ibid., p. 427.