John XXI, The Treasury of Health (1550?)

Date

1553?

Author

John XXI

Translator

Humphrey Lloyd Note: 11/10/2005

Lexicon title

(a) A Table conteyning the weightes which phisicyons do comenly vse, and the interpretacyon of the names of the compound medicynes herin conteyned wyth the quantitie & tyme that they ought to be receyued in. (b) All compounde medycynes be eyther receyuid wythin the body, or layd to the same without. & they whych be receyued into the body be these. (c) Here folow the compound medycynes whyche be applyed to the outwarde partes of the body.

Book title

The treasury of healthe conteynyng many profitable medycines gathered out of Hypocrates, Galen and Auycen, by one Petrus Hyspanus & translated into Englysh by Humfre Lloyde who hath added therunto the causes and sygnes of euerye dysease, wyth the Aphorismes of Hypocrates, and Iacobus de Partybus redacted to a certayne order according to the membres of mans body, and a compendiouse table conteynyng the purginge and confortatyue medycynes, wyth the exposicyon of certayne names & weyghtes in this boke contayned wyth an epystle of Diocles vnto kyng Antigonus.

Publication place

London

Publisher

William Copland

Transcription source

EEBO/TCP

Text type

printed book

Genre

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

Subject area

• medicine
• weights and measures

Summary

Medical explanations of things or words, ending with a word-list or table of medicines

Language

headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English

Extent

f1v-f4v (second sequence of signatures)

Word-group

type: alphabetical

Word-entry

type: headword
sample: Sinapismus is an emplaster made of mustard to vlcerate the skynne & make the same red. (f4r)

Schafer

1550 L

STC

14651.5

Other editions

1553: STC 14651.7;
1585: STC 14654

Criticisms

McConchie, R. W. Lexicography and Physicke: The Record of Sixteenth-century English Medical Terminology. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. 17. view record