William Bullein, Bulleins Bulwarke of Defence (1562)

Date

1562

Author

William Bulleyn(alternate name for William Bullein ) Note: 30/09/2005

Lexicon title

Now you haue ended your Table, with the names of compoundes. There are certain wordes, very harde for me to vnderstand as when you doe name Apophlegmatismus, Dropax, Linement. &c. I knowe not what thei doe meane, by their proper names, I praie you tell me the significacions

Book title

Bulleins Bulwarke of defence againste all Sicknes, Sornes, and woundes, that dooe daily assaulte mankinde, whiche Bulwarke is kepte with Hillarius the Gardiner, Health the Phisician, with their Chyrurgian, to helpe the wounded soldiors. Gathered and practised from the moste worthie learned, bothe old and newe: to the greate comforte of mankinde: Doen by Williyam Bulleyn, and ended this Marche. Anno salutis 1562

Publication place

London

Publisher

Ihon Kyngston

Transcription source

Da Capo facsimile (British Library)

Text type

printed book

Genre

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

Subject area

medicine

Summary

Glossary reportedly in both editions

Language

headwords: English

Extent

I2v-3v

Word-group

type: alphabetical
number: 1

Word-entry

type: headword
number: 38
sample: Sufur is a goodly aromatike pouder, made of spices, as Galanga, &c.

Alston

XVII.I.69

Schafer

1562 B

STC

4033

Other editions

1579: STC 4034 (Alston XVII.I.70)

Facsimiles

Bullein, William. Bulleins Bulwarke of Defence againste all Sicknes, Sornes, and Woundes. The English experience, no. 350. Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1971. view record

Criticisms

Larkey, Sanford V. "Scientific Glossaries in Sixteenth Century English Books." Bulletin of the Institute of the History of Medicine 5 (1937): 105-14. view record
Mitchell, William S. "William Bullein, Elizabethan Physician and Author." Medical History 3.3 (1959 July): 188-200. view record
O'Malley, C. D. "Tudor Medicine and Biology." Huntington Library Quarterly 32 (1968-69): 1-27. 12. view record