Thomas Newton, Approved Medicines and Cordial Receipts (1580)
Date
1580
Author
Book title
Approoved Medicines and Cordiall Receiptes, with the natures, qualities, and operations of sundry Simples. Very Commodious and expedient for all that are studious of such knowledge.
Publication place
London
Publisher
Thomas Marshe
Text type
printed book
Genre
Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies
Subject area
- herbal
- medicine
Summary
This pharmaceutical dictionary focuses not on the substances but on their uses, so that its logical definitions are partial. However, a Latin-English word-pair at the start of every entry makes this treatise into an expanded bilingual lexicon.
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: logical
sample: Cera, Waxe. WAXE, is maturatiue, resolutiue, & mollificatiue. The material substance of Plaisters, & Oyntements. It is taken inwardly in brothes against the Bloudy fluxe, which is with vlcerations of the Bowells. Waxe well washed is more temperate than Waxe vnwashed: for by the washing the sharpnesse, and acrimonie of it is taken away. (1r; first entry)
sample: Cera, Waxe. WAXE, is maturatiue, resolutiue, & mollificatiue. The material substance of Plaisters, & Oyntements. It is taken inwardly in brothes against the Bloudy fluxe, which is with vlcerations of the Bowells. Waxe well washed is more temperate than Waxe vnwashed: for by the washing the sharpnesse, and acrimonie of it is taken away. (1r; first entry)
Alston
XVII.I.91
STC
18510
Criticisms
Heninger, S. K., Jr. "Tudor Literature of the Physical Sciences." Huntington Library Quarterly 32 (1968-69): 103-33, 249-70.
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