Medical remedies, Seventeenth century
Scope and Contents
'Sundrie rare improved remedies, for the safe curing of moste kinde of diseases, collected out of the learned workes of the best phisitions, in these later times, who were famous either in the chief universities, or in the courts of the emperor and other princes, or in great cities, faithfully digested by the most learned and most diligent Johannes Georgius Schenckius of Grafenburge into 7 centuries: the greatest number whereof are translated by Drue Burton, for his owne and his friends' use', with a treatise on dysuria extracted from the works of Lazarus Riverius, and a treatise on certain urinary affections with an account of the treatment and cure of a case of diabetes by Lazarus Riverius. A marginal note to the title records that 'Many things more are added out of the very same learned authors which are not in Schenckius and out of the learned phisition Lazarus Riverius.' With an alphabetical index.
Dates
- Creation: Seventeenth century
Creator
- Schenk, Johann Georg, d 1620 (German physician) (Person)
- Burton, Drue, fl 1607-1630 (of Sleaford, Lincs.; secretary to Sir Francis Crane) (Person)
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Extent
1 volume(s) (118 leaves.)
Language of Materials
English
Custodial History
In the Library by the mid 1750s.
Physical Description
Paper.
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