Notes on the bibliography of three sixteenth-century English books connected with London hospitals / by Sir D'Arcy Power.

  • D'Arcy Power
Date:
1921
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Credit: Notes on the bibliography of three sixteenth-century English books connected with London hospitals / by Sir D'Arcy Power. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The book had really fulfilled its purpose, but it was thought worth while to publish it once again in a smaller form and with an altered title- Accordingly in 1651 this i2mo appeared with the title-page in red and black inside a ruled border. The | Surgions | Directorie | for | Young Practitioners, | in [respect of ?] Wounds, and Cures, &c., | shewing the Excellencie of divers Secrets | belonging to that noble Art and | Mysterie. | Very usefull in these Times upon any | sodaine Accidents. | And may well serve, | As a Noble Exercise for Gentle-| women, and others ; who desire Science in | Medicine and Surgery, for a | generall good | Divided into X Parts. | (Whose Contents follow in the next Page.) Written by T. Vicary Esquire, Chyrurgion | to Hen 8. Edw 6. Q Mary. Q. Eliz. | London, j Printed by T. Fawcet dwelling in Shoo-jLane, at the Signe of the Dolphin. 1651 | And are to be sold by J. Nuthall at his Shop in | Flete- street at the signe of Hercules Pillers. The edition of 1888 is published by the Early English Text Society, and was edited by Dr. F. J. Furnivall and his son Percy Furnivall, using the text of the 1577 edition. The Englishman's Treasure thus had a long career, but it probably owed its sale to the number of receipts it contained and not to the Anatomy, which was long out of date when the book first appeared. Indeed as showing how little attention was paid by the successive editors it may be noted that the mistranslation which appears on page 44 of the 1586 edition is unchanged in the 1651 edition [p. 66]. The passage runs : ‘ The seconde portion of the guttes is called jejunium, for ‘ he is evermore emptie, for to him lyeth evermore the chest ‘ of the Gal beating him sore, and draweth forth of him al ‘ the drosse, and cleanseth him cleaned This is a misreading of the manuscript, which has 4 Biting him sore referring to the supposed irritant properties of the bile. I feel that I have done my duty to Thomas Vicary by showing that he was not a purloiner of other men’s brains, but that the Anatomy was issued originally as part of a scheme to go back to old writers at a time when surgery was just