![CLOWES, William (1544-1604). A prooved practise for all young Chirurgians, concerning burnings with Gunpowder, and woundes made with Gunshot, Sword, Halbard, Pike, Launce, or such other. [London:] Thomas Orwyn, for Wydow Broome, 1591.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/1998/NYP/1998_NYP_08854_0067_000(104747).jpg?w=1)
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CLOWES, William (1544-1604). A prooved practise for all young Chirurgians, concerning burnings with Gunpowder, and woundes made with Gunshot, Sword, Halbard, Pike, Launce, or such other. [London:] Thomas Orwyn, for Wydow Broome, 1591.
4o (184 x 140 mm). Ppppp4 cancelled (apparently blank). Black letter and roman types, title within typographical border, woodcut coat-of-arms on 4v, 5 woodcut illustrations (one cropped slightly on Piiiiiiii4) illustrating battle wounds and their surgery and various surgical instruments. (Library stamp bleached from title margin and one lower margin at end, some minor browning.) Modern brown morocco. Provenance: University of Pennslyvania (library stamp bleached, as above).
A re-issue of the 1588 first edition (with cancel title page and additional case histories) of this interesting picture of Elizabethan surgery. "Clowes advocated the use of styptics to arrest hemorrhage and a method of covering the stump of an amputation with skin that is an ancestor of the flap method. Clowes was the first to perform a successful leg amputation above the knee, and the first to publish an original work in English on syphilis" (Norman). It contains at end a treatise of the French pocks by John Almenar. Garrison-Morton 2141 (1588 edition); NLM/Durling 970; STC 5445c; Norman 491.
4o (184 x 140 mm). Ppppp4 cancelled (apparently blank). Black letter and roman types, title within typographical border, woodcut coat-of-arms on 4v, 5 woodcut illustrations (one cropped slightly on Piiiiiiii4) illustrating battle wounds and their surgery and various surgical instruments. (Library stamp bleached from title margin and one lower margin at end, some minor browning.) Modern brown morocco. Provenance: University of Pennslyvania (library stamp bleached, as above).
A re-issue of the 1588 first edition (with cancel title page and additional case histories) of this interesting picture of Elizabethan surgery. "Clowes advocated the use of styptics to arrest hemorrhage and a method of covering the stump of an amputation with skin that is an ancestor of the flap method. Clowes was the first to perform a successful leg amputation above the knee, and the first to publish an original work in English on syphilis" (Norman). It contains at end a treatise of the French pocks by John Almenar. Garrison-Morton 2141 (1588 edition); NLM/Durling 970; STC 5445c; Norman 491.