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WISEMAN, Richard (1622?-1676). Several Chirurgicall Treatises. London: E. Flesher and J. Macock for R. Royston and B. Took, 1676. 2 parts in one volume, 2° (307 x 196mm). Half title, with the final blank (fore-margins at the beginning a little frayed through damp but with no damage, repaired tear in Dd2, margins a trifle discoloured). 19th-century half calf, red morocco label on spine (slightly rubbed). Provenance: A. Rowlands, surgeon of Nanty-Glo, 1816 (inscription on half title).
FIRST EDITION. 'Wiseman was surgeon to both King James I [!] and King Charles II and was the outstanding surgeon in seventeenth-century England. This large work discusses the cause, clinical appearance, and treatment of tumors, ulcers, diseases of the anus, the "King's Evil", wounds (including gunshot wounds), fractures, and venereal disease. Wiseman realized the difference between gonorrhea and syphilis and was the first to describe tuberculosis of the joints', Heirs of Hippocrates *350; Wing W3107; Garrison & Morton 5573; Osler 4258.
FIRST EDITION. 'Wiseman was surgeon to both King James I [!] and King Charles II and was the outstanding surgeon in seventeenth-century England. This large work discusses the cause, clinical appearance, and treatment of tumors, ulcers, diseases of the anus, the "King's Evil", wounds (including gunshot wounds), fractures, and venereal disease. Wiseman realized the difference between gonorrhea and syphilis and was the first to describe tuberculosis of the joints', Heirs of Hippocrates *350; Wing W3107; Garrison & Morton 5573; Osler 4258.
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