Johann Jacob Wecker, A Compendious Chirurgery (1585)
Date
1585
Author
Translator
Lexicon title
A table of all the principall matters contained in this Booke
Book title
A Compendiovs Chyrvrgerie: Gathered, & translated (especially) out of Wecker, at the request of certaine, but encreased and enlightned with certaine Annotations, Resolutions & Supplyes, not impertinent to this treatise, nor vnprofitable to the Reader
Publication place
London
Printer
John Windet
Publisher
John Harrison the elder
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
- Greek
- Latin
- medicine
Summary
Chapter-length discussions of medical topics, sometimes defined logically and so noted in the margin
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
other languages: Latin, Greek
explanations: English
explanations: English
other languages: Latin, Greek
explanations: English
Word-group
type: undifferentiated
Word-entry
type: logical
sample: Carbuncle. 20 (z2v)
CArbunculus, or (according to the Greekes) Anthrax, is a little venomous pustule, burning the place, and first raysing a blister, bringeth afterwarde a crust. (p. 20)
sample: Carbuncle. 20 (z2v)
CArbunculus, or (according to the Greekes) Anthrax, is a little venomous pustule, burning the place, and first raysing a blister, bringeth afterwarde a crust. (p. 20)
STC
25185
Criticisms
Bensly, Edward. "The Identity of Elisha Coles: Oxford, `the Eye of England'." Notes and Queries 165 (1933 July 22): 49.
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