A sure guide, or, The best and nearest way to physick and chyrurgery : that is to say, the arts of healing by medicine and manual operation : being an anatomical description of the whole body of man and its parts : with their respective diseases demonstrated from the fabrick and vse of the said parts : in six books ... at the end of these six books, are added twenty four tables, cut in brass, containing one hundred eighty four figures, with an explanation of them : all which are referred to in above a thousand places in the books for the help of yong artists / written in Latine by Johannes Riolanus, Junior ... ; Englished by Nicholas Culpeper, Gent. and W.R., Doctor of the Liberal Arts and of physick.
- Riolan, Jean, 1580-1657
- Date:
- 1671
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About this work
Also known as
Encheiridium anatomicum et pathologicum. English
Publication/Creation
London : Printed by John Streater, and are to be sold by George Strawbridge ..., 1671.
Physical description
12 unnumbered pages, 288, that is, 240 pages, 11 unnumbered pages, 24 leaves of plates. ;
Edition
The third edition corrected and amended.
Notes
Plates accompanied by 24 captions or 24 unsigned, unpaged leaves. Lacking plate seven.
Translation of Encheiridium anatomicum et pathologicum, first published in Paris in 1648.
Index: p. [1]-[11] at end.
Errors in paging.
W.R. is William Rand. Cf. DNB.
Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.
Contents
1. Describing all and every of the bones of mans body according to the ancient method -- 2. Describing the belly and all its parts and bowels with their respective diseases -- 3. Describing the chest and all its parts and contents with their respective diseases -- 4. Describing the head and face with all their parts containing and contained and their respective diseases -- 5. Describing the limbs of the body with the many regiments of muscles and their diseases -- 6. Containing a new description of the bones by a method first invented by our author handling al the diseases and symptomes of the said bones.
References note
Wing R1526
Arber's Term cat. I 75
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 777:4) s1999 miun s