John Woodall, The Surgeon's Mate (1617)

Date

1617

Author

John Woodall Note: 15/10/2005

Lexicon title

The termes of art recited formerly in verse, are heere againe repeated Alphabetically, and more plainely interpreted

Book title

The Svrgions Mate, or A Treatise Disco­uering faithfully and plainely the due contents of the Svrgions Chest, the vses of the Instruments, the vertues and operations of the Medicines, the cures of the most frequent diseases at Sea: Namely Wounds, Apostumes, Vlcers, Fistulaes, Frac­tures, Dislocations, with the true maner of Amputation, the cure of the Scuruie, the Fluxes of the belly, of the Collica and Illiaca Passio, Tenasmus, and exitus Ani, the Callenture; with a Brief Explanation of Sal, Sulphur, and Mercury; with certaine Characters, and tearmes of Arte. Published chiefly for the benefit of young Sea-Surgions, imployed in the East-India Companies affaires.

Publication place

London

Printer

Edward Griffin

Publisher

Laurence Lisle

Transcription source

British Library C.123.e.9

Text type

printed book

Genre

Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions

Subject area

• medicine
• navigation and the sea

Language

headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English

Extent

338-48

Word-group

type: alphabetical

Word-entry

type: headword
sample: Cohobation is frequent abstraction of liquour oftentimes affused vpon a dead head or drie feces by distillation. (ss3r)

Schafer

1617 W

STC

25962

Other editions

1655: Wing W3421

Facsimiles

Woodall, John. The Surgions Mate by John Woodall: A Complete Facsimile of the Book Published in 1617. Ed. John Kirkup. Bath: Kingsmead, n.d. view record

Criticisms

Appleby, John H. "New Light on John Woodall, Surgeon and Adventurer." Medical History 25.3 (1981): 251-68. view record
Debus, Allen G. "John Woodall, Paracelsian Surgeon." Ambix 10.3 (1962): 108-18. view record
Keevil, J. J. "Medicine and the Navy, 1200-1900." 4 vols. view record