A most excellent and compendious method of curing woundes in the head, and in other partes of the body, with other precepts of the same arte
Subtitle: Whereunto is added the exact cure of the Caruncle, never before set foorth in the English toung. With a treatise of the Fistulae in the fundament, and other places of the body, translated out of Johannes Ardern. And also the discription of the Emplaister called Dia Chalciteos, with his use and vertues. With an apt Table for the better finding of the perticular matteris, contayned in this present worke
By: Practised and written by that famoous man Franciscus Arceus, Doctor in Phisicke & Chirurgery: and translated into English by John Read, Chirurgeon
Contributors: Arderne, John, active 1307-1370; Galen; Hippocrates; Nuñez, Alvaro, active 16th century; Read, John, active 1588
Publisher: Imprinted by Thomas East, for Thomas Cadman
Published: 1588
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 119
Subjects: Fistula; Medicine; Surgery; Wounds and injuries; Treatment
Notes: "The othe of Hippocratus": leaf 118-119.

The first work is a translation of Arceo's De recta curandorum vulnerum ratione with the annotations of Alvaro Nuñez.

"The discription of an emplaister called dia chalciteos" is translated from chap. 4 of the first book of Galen's De compositione medicamentorum per genera.

STC 723.

ESTC S100216.

Luborsky & Ingram. Engl. illustrated books, 1536-1603, 723.

STC (2nd ed.), 723.