Christoph Wirsung, Praxis Medicinae Universalis (1598)
Date
1598
Author
Translator
Book title
Praxis Medicinæ vniuersalis; Or A generall Practise of Physicke: Wherein are conteined all inward and outward parts of the body, with all the accidents and infirmities that are incident vnto them, euen from the crowne of the head to the sole of the foote; Also by what meanes (with the help of God) they may be remedie: very meete and profitable, not only for all Phisitions, Chirurgions, Apothecaries, and Midwiues, but for all other estates whatsoeuer. The like whereof as yet in english hath not beene published. Compiled and written by the most famous and learned Doctour Christopher Wirtzung, in the Germane tongue, and now Translated into English, in diuers places corrected, and with many additions illustrated and augmented, by Iacob Mosan Germane, Doctor in the same facultie
Publication place
London
Printer
Edmund Bollifant
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
- Greek
- Latin
- medicine
Summary
(a) "The first Table Contayneth the names of all diseases, accidents, and infirmities: Also all manner of Compositions, Conserues, Confections, Electuaries, Syrupes, Iuleps, Trocisks, Pils, Potions, Salues, Plaisters, Oyles, Baulmes, Waters, and Aromaticall Wynes, with diuers other things more, which are mentioned in this Booke"; (b) "This second Index contayneth all the Simples that are specified in this Worke, as Rootes, Herbs, Flowers, Fruits, Plants, Iuices, Gums, Woods, Stones, Barks, Metals, Minerals and Earths; Also all the parts of Beasts and of the body of man, that are or may be vsed in Physicke"; (c) "This third and Latine Index, contayneth all the Latine, Greeke, and other strange names of all Simples, especially of those which are mentioned in this Booke, as Rootes, Herbs, Floures, Fruits, Plants, Iuices, Gummes, Woods, Stones, Barks, Metals, Minerals, Earths, Deere, and whatsoeuer else is vsed in Physick: Also all mixed and compounded Medicines, as Electuaries, Confectures, Syrupes, Iuleps, Conserues, Cakes, Pils, Salues, Oyles, Potions, and distilled waters, with their names, not onle as they are called by the auncient Greeke and Latine Physitions, but also as they are now named amongst the common Physitions and Apothecaries: In like sort also all inward and outward parts and members of the body, with all the diseases that euery one of them is subiect vnto". (b) and (c) have, respectively, about 500 and 4800 entries.
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
other languages: Latin, Greek
explanations: English
explanations: English
other languages: Latin, Greek
explanations: English
Extent
(a) ddd4r-eee3v;
(b) eee4r-lll3r;
(c) lll3v-sss4r
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
number: 5300
sample: (a) ABortus, abortion. 508
Abricocks how preserued. 715
(b) ABrecockes, or Peaches, are called in Latine Mala armeniaca, Mala præcocia, and Bericocia, others do call them Mala treeacina, and the common sort name them Chrysomela, but this is the right and true Latine name of the Orange: it is a fruite sufficiently knowne, and growing in this our Countrie [ca. 500 entries]
(c) ABalzener Arabum, Sena, Sene. [ca. 4800 entries]
number: 5300
sample: (a) ABortus, abortion. 508
Abricocks how preserued. 715
(b) ABrecockes, or Peaches, are called in Latine Mala armeniaca, Mala præcocia, and Bericocia, others do call them Mala treeacina, and the common sort name them Chrysomela, but this is the right and true Latine name of the Orange: it is a fruite sufficiently knowne, and growing in this our Countrie [ca. 500 entries]
(c) ABalzener Arabum, Sena, Sene. [ca. 4800 entries]
Alston
XVII.I.108
Schafer
1598 M
STC
25862
Other editions
1598: STC 25863 (ALston XVII.I.109);
1605: STC 25864 (British Library 773.m.5; 1617,and 07305.l.1; Henry E. Huntington Library 79917; Alston XVII.I.110);
1647: STC 25865 (Alston XVII.I.111);
1654: Wing M2850A (British Library Cup.500.pp.12; Alston XVII.I.112);
1654: Wing M3100 (Alston XVII.I.113).
Larkey reports that all editions have indexes
1605: STC 25864 (British Library 773.m.5; 1617,and 07305.l.1; Henry E. Huntington Library 79917; Alston XVII.I.110);
1647: STC 25865 (Alston XVII.I.111);
1654: Wing M2850A (British Library Cup.500.pp.12; Alston XVII.I.112);
1654: Wing M3100 (Alston XVII.I.113).
Larkey reports that all editions have indexes
Criticisms
Larkey, Sanford V. "Scientific Glossaries in Sixteenth Century English Books." Bulletin of the Institute of the History of Medicine 5 (1937): 105-14.
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