Synopsis medicinae
Subtitle: a compendium of physick, chirurgery, and anatomy ; In IV. books ; Shewing the signs, causes, judgments, and various ways of curing all diseases whether external or internal, hapning to the bodies of humane kind ; Perform'd astrologically, Galenically, and chymically ; Illustrated with celestial observations ; the judgments of urines and pulses ; the presages of Hippocrates from the body of the sick ; the manner of performing of all kinds of chirurgick operations: the art of embalming of dead bodies, both ancient and modern: the chirurgian's chest, fitted both for sea and land: the explication and use of all sorts of chirurgick instruments, with their various figures ; the cure of all manner of tumors, wounds, ulcers, fractures & dislocations ; with many other things of excellent use ; and a compleat anatomical idea, of the whole body of man
By: By William Salmon, Professor of Physick
Edition: The second edition, enlarged with above two thousand several additions through the whole work; and adorn'd with 24 copper plates or sculptures.
Publisher: Printed for Th. Dawks, in Thames-street, next Puddle-dock-stairs; Sold by L. Curtiss on Ludgate hill, and by the booksellers of London and Westminster
Published: 1679
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1207
Subjects: Medicine; Early works to 1800; Anatomy
Notes: Signatures: A⁴, a⁸-b⁸, c⁴-g⁴, B⁸-4G⁸, 4H⁴.

Added t. p., engraved.

Includes errata (unnumbered page 1 at end).

Includes index.

Vol. 1 has general t. p. only; v. 2-4, special t. p. only.

Paged continuously with numerous errors in pagination.

English short title catalogue, R40165

Wing (2nd ed.), S455

Bookplates of Townsend W. Thorndike and James Young Simpson.

Imperfect: All after p. 1204 and plate X, book 3, wanting.
Table of contents: title: liber 1. The diagnosticks. 1681.; title: liber 2. Prognostica. 1679.; title: liber 3. Therapeutica. 1680.; title: liber 4. Anatomica. 1680.