Robert Recorde, The Urinal of Physic (1547)
Date
1547
Author
Robert
Record(alternate name for
Robert
Recorde
)
Note: 13/10/2005
Lexicon title
Thexposytion of certayne wordes
Book title
The Vrinal of Physick
Publication place
London
Publisher
Reynolde Wolfe
Transcription source
EEBO (Royal College of Physicians of London Library)
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
medicine
Summary
"The declaration of certayn darke wordes appertaining to the arte of Physicke, vsed in this boke" (L3v); and occasional explanations of diseases and their symptoms.
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Extent
K4r-8v
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: Besides these, is there a disease named ye Strangury (whiche sum corruptely call the Stranguryon) in whiche dysease, the vryne doth contynually drop furth as fast as it commyth into the bladder. (i8v)
Putrefaction is commenyl knowen to signifie, rottynge. (k6v)
sample: Besides these, is there a disease named ye Strangury (whiche sum corruptely call the Stranguryon) in whiche dysease, the vryne doth contynually drop furth as fast as it commyth into the bladder. (i8v)
Putrefaction is commenyl knowen to signifie, rottynge. (k6v)
Schafer
1547 R
STC
20816
Other editions
Four editions, 1548, 1567, 1582, 1599 (STC 20817-20819)
Criticisms
Clarke, Frances Marguerite. "New Light on Robert Recorde." Isis 8.1, alt. no. 25 (1926): 50-70.
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Kaplan, Edward. "Robert Recorde and the Authorities of Uroscopy." Bulletin of the History of Medicine 37.1 (1963): 65-71. view record
Lloyd, Howell A. "`Famous in the Field of Number and Measure': Robert Recorde, Renaissance Mathematician." Welsh History Review 20 (2000): 254-82. view record
Kaplan, Edward. "Robert Recorde and the Authorities of Uroscopy." Bulletin of the History of Medicine 37.1 (1963): 65-71. view record
Lloyd, Howell A. "`Famous in the Field of Number and Measure': Robert Recorde, Renaissance Mathematician." Welsh History Review 20 (2000): 254-82. view record
