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The Chyrurgeons Closet [Chyrvrgians Closet] : London 1630

Bonham, Thomas; compiled by Edward Poeton

Amsterdam: Da Capo Press / Theatrvm Orbis Terrarvm, 1968.

Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Item #13308

Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket/slip, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; Facsimile reprint of London: 1630 edition printed by George Miller for Edward Brewster. Original title page reads: The chyrvrgians closet; or, An antidotarie chyrurgicall : Furnished with varietie and choyce of: apophlegms, balmes, baths, caps, cataplasmes, causticks, cerots, clysters, collyries, decoctions, diets, and wound-drinks, desensatiues, dentifrices, electuaries, embrocations, epithemes, errhines, foments, fumes, gargarismes, iniections, liniments, lotions, oyles, pessaries, pils, playsters, potions, powders, quilts, suppositaries, synapismes, trochisces, vnguents, and waters. The greatest part whereof were scatterdly set downe in sundry bookes and papers; by the right worshipfull Mr. Thomas Bonham, Dr. of Physick; and now drawne into method and forme, by Edvvard Poeton of Petworth, (late and long seruant to the foresaid Right Worshipfull Dr.) and published for the benefit of his country, and the helpe and ease, of young practitioners in the ancient, necessarie, and noble science of chyrurgerie. S.T.C. no. 3279. "Poeton was the servant of Bonham, an assistant to the Society of Medicine-Chirugiens. On his death in 1629 Bonham left his papers to Poeton, who prepared them for the press." ; The English Experience : Its Record In Early Printed Books Published In Facsimile; Ex-Library; Vol. 31; [xi], 359, (28) pages.

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