A sure guide; or, The best and nearest way to physick and chyrurgery: that is to say, the arts of healing by medicine, and manual operation. Being an anatomical description of the whol body of man, and its parts, with their respective diseases, demonstrated from the fabrick and use of the said parts. In six books. 1 Describing all ... the bones of mans body, according to the ancient method. 2 Describing the belly, ... 3 Describing the chest, ... 4 Describing the head, and face, ... 5 Describing the limbs of the body, ... 6. Containing a new description of the bones, by a method first invented by our author, ... At the end of the six books, are added twenty four tables, ... Written in Latine by Johannes Riolanus, Junior; Doctor of Physick, physitian in ordinary to the Queen Mother of France ... Englished by Nich. Culpeper, gent. and W.R. Doctor of the Liberal Arts, and of Physick.

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  • A sure guide; or, The best and nearest way to physick and chyrurgery: that is to say, the arts of healing by medicine, and manual operation. Being an anatomical description of the whol body of man, and its parts, with their respective diseases, demonstrated from the fabrick and use of the said parts. In six books. 1 Describing all ... the bones of mans body, according to the ancient method. 2 Describing the belly, ... 3 Describing the chest, ... 4 Describing the head, and face, ... 5 Describing the limbs of the body, ... 6. Containing a new description of the bones, by a method first invented by our author, ... At the end of the six books, are added twenty four tables, ... Written in Latine by Johannes Riolanus, Junior; Doctor of Physick, physitian in ordinary to the Queen Mother of France ... Englished by Nich. Culpeper, gent. and W.R. Doctor of the Liberal Arts, and of Physick.
  • Encheiridium anatomicum et pathologicum. English
  • Culpepers six books of physick and chyrurgery
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Imprint
London: printed by Peter Cole, and are to be sold at his shop, at the sign of the Printing-Press in Cornhil, neer the Royal Exchange, 1657.
Added name
Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654, tr. Rand, William, tr.
Publication year
1657
ESTC No.
R15251
Grub Street ID
63205
Description
[14], 142, 191-288, [12] p., [48] leaves of plates ; diagrams ; 2⁰
Note
Translation of "Encheiridium anatomicum et pathologicum", first published in Paris in 1648.

W.R. = William Rand.

With initial vertical half-title page: Culpepers six books of physick and chyrurgery.

Includes 24 double plates, with letter-press explanation on inner verso and numbered engraving on inner recto.