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CLOWES, William (ca 1540-1601). A Profitable and Necessarie Booke of Observations, for all those that are burdened with the flame of Gun-powder, &c. and also for curing of wounds made with Musket and Caliver shot, and other weapons of Warre... With an addition of most approved remedies... Last of all is adioyned a short treatise, for the cure of Lues Venerea. London: Printed by M. Dawson and to be sold by Benjamin Allen and Peter Cole, 1637.
2 parts in 2 volumes, 4o ( 184 x 138 mm). 4 full-page woodcuts at end of first part. (First title reinforced along edges verso, a few headlines and catchwords shaved, some spotting and soiling.) 18th-century vellum (some soiling); quarter vellum folding case.
Third edition, issue with lines 3-4 of title corrected to read "Bur- ned." Clowes succeeded Thomas Gale and has been called the greatest Elizabethan surgeon. He possessed a wide and practical knowledge of military and naval surgery and was surgeon to Queen Elizabeth in 1596 (the date of this work's first edition). See Garrison-Morton 2141, 2373; NLM/Krivatsky 2518; STC 5445.7 (formerly 5443). (2)
2 parts in 2 volumes, 4o ( 184 x 138 mm). 4 full-page woodcuts at end of first part. (First title reinforced along edges verso, a few headlines and catchwords shaved, some spotting and soiling.) 18th-century vellum (some soiling); quarter vellum folding case.
Third edition, issue with lines 3-4 of title corrected to read "Bur- ned." Clowes succeeded Thomas Gale and has been called the greatest Elizabethan surgeon. He possessed a wide and practical knowledge of military and naval surgery and was surgeon to Queen Elizabeth in 1596 (the date of this work's first edition). See Garrison-Morton 2141, 2373; NLM/Krivatsky 2518; STC 5445.7 (formerly 5443). (2)