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[480] p. |
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A translation by Anthony Hunton of: Guillemeau, Jacques. Traité des maladies de l'oeil. |
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Includes "Certaine aphorismes, describing the nature and use of the eyes, and opticke spirits", followed by other selections, collectively entitled "Banister's breviary of the eyes"; "A worthy treatise of the eyes", , translated from "Traité des maladies de l'oeil" by Jacques Guillemeau, with separate dated title page; "A discourse of the scorby", translated from "Medicarum observationum rararum" by Johann Weyer; and "Of the nature and divers kinds of cancers or cankers", translated from "De cancri natura et curatione" by Benoît Textor; register is continuous throughout. |
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Signatures: (a)-(e)¹² (f)⁶ A-0¹² P⁶. |
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The last leaf is blank. |
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See Poynter, F.N.L. Notes on a late-sixteenth-century ophthalmic work in English. The Library, ser. 5, 2 (1947), p. 173-9. |
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Identified as STC 1362 on UMI microfilm. |
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Reproduction of the original in Cambridge University Library. |
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