Vade mecum: or, A companion for a chyrurgion: fitted for times of peace or war. Compendiously shewing the yong artist the use of every severall instrument belonging to a chyrurgion; and the vertues and qualities of all such medicines as are needfull and necessary, with the maner of compounding them, according to the most approved authors. As also the perfect cure of green wounds, either incised or contused, ulcers, fistulaes, fractures, and dislocations. To which is added the maner of making reports before a judge of assize, of any one that hath come to an untimely end. By Tho. Brugis Doctor in Physick.

People / Organizations

• Thomas Brugis (Author)

Imprint

London: printed by T.H. for Thomas Williams at the sign of the Bible in Little Britain, 1652 [i.e. 1651]

Added name

Cross, Thomas, fl. 1632-1682, engraver.

Publication year

1651

ESTC No.

R209491

Grub Street ID

85723

Description

[32], 208, [14] p. : ill. (metal cut) ; 8⁰

Note

The frontispiece is signed: T. Cross sculpsit.

Includes index.

With a final advertisement leaf.

Annotation on Thomason copy: "Decemb 2"; the 2 in the date has been crossed out and replaced with a 1.