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A most excellent and compendious method of curing woundes in the head, and in other partes of the body, with other precepts of the same arte. : Whereunto is added the exact cure of the Caruncle, never before set foorth in the English toung. With a treatise of the Fistulae in the fundament, and other places of the body, translated out of Johannes Ardern. And also the discription of the Emplaister called Dia Chalciteos, with his use and vertues. With an apt Table for the better finding of the perticular matteris, contayned in this present worke. / Practised and written by that famoous man Franciscus Arceus, Doctor in Phisicke & Chirurgery: and translated into English by John Read, Chirurgeon.

  • Francisco Arceo
Date:
1588
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A most excellent and compendious method of curing woundes in the head, and in other partes of the body, with other precepts of the same arte. : Whereunto is added the exact cure of the Caruncle, never before set foorth in the English toung. With a treatise of the Fistulae in the fundament, and other places of the body, translated out of Johannes Ardern. And also the discription of the Emplaister called Dia Chalciteos, with his use and vertues. With an apt Table for the better finding of the perticular matteris, contayned in this present worke. / Practised and written by that famoous man Franciscus Arceus, Doctor in Phisicke & Chirurgery: and translated into English by John Read, Chirurgeon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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