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Record Nr.

UNISA996393823303316

Autore

Markham Gervase <1568?-1637.>

Titolo

Markhams maister-peece [[electronic resource] ] : containing all knowledge belonging to the smith, farrier, or horse-leech, touching the curing of all diseases in horses: drawne with great paine, and most approved experience, from the publick practise of all the forraigne horse-marshals in Christendome; and from the private practise of all the best farriers of this land. Being divided into two bookes. The first containing all cures physicall: the second all belonging to chyrurgery; with an addition of 160. principall chapters, and 370. most excellent medicines, never written of, nor mentioned in any authour whatsoever. Together with the true nature, use, and quality of every simple spoken of through the whole worke. Now the seventh time newly imprinted, corrected, and augmented, with above thirty new chapters, and above forty new medicines that are most certaine and approved; and heretofore never published, which you shall finde noted thus. All which never was before made knowne, but concealed in the authors breast for his owne credit

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Imprint]ed at London, : by William Wilson, and are to be [sold] in Pauls Church-yard, or in any other part of London, 1651

Descrizione fisica

[16], 591, [25] p. : ill.;

Soggetti

Horses - Diseases - Treatment

Horses - Anatomy

Veterinary medicine - England

Horseshoeing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

There is a hand with pointing finger following the words "which you shall finde noted thus" on title page.

With an additional title page, engraved, with title "Markhams maister:peece", and signed "Ren. Elstrak sculpsit".

The first leaf bears "The minde or meaning of the frontispeece" on verso; the last leaf is blank.

"The second booke: containing all cures chyrurgicall" has separate title page dated 1651; pagination and register are continuous.

Reproduction of original in the Wellcome Institute for the History of



Medicine, London.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0186