The General Biographical Dictionary (Volume 3); Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in ... the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1150495030 ISBN 13: 9781150495038

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1812. Excerpt: ... nine books," 157S. 4. " Compendious Chirurgery, gathered and translated especially out of Wecker," &c. 1589, 8vo. 5. "Antidotary chirurgical, containing variety of all sorts of medicines," &c. 1589, 8vo. Several years after his death, in 1663, his works were published at London in 4to, in six books. The first three books, Of tumours, wounds, and ulcers in general and particular. 4. Of fractures and luxations. 5. Of the curation of ulcers; and 6. The antidotary above-mentioned. There was another physician named Richard Banister, who wrote, "A treatise of one hundred and thirteen Diseases of the Eyes and Eyelids;" commonly called Banister's Breviary of the Eyes; and "An appendant part of a treatise of one hundred and thirteen Diseases of the Eyes and Eyelids, called Cervisia Medicata, Purging Ale, with divers Aphorisms and Principles." From this book it appears that the author was living in 1617, and 1619, and probably in 1622, when the second edition was published. When it was first published, cannot be found. But in 1622, "The treatise of the one hundred and thirteen Diseases, &c." was reprinted.--In Chapter IV. of the " Appendant part, &c." he says: "In my treatise of the Eyes I have named the best oculists that have been in this land for fifty or sixty years, who were no graduates either in Cambridge or Oxon."' BANISTER (john), mentioned by Mr. Ray in very high terms, as a man of talents in natural history, first made a voyage to the East Indies, about the close of the seventeenth century, and remained there some time; but was afterwards fixed in Virginia. In that country he industriously sought for plants, described them, and himself drew the figures of the rare species: he was also celebrated for his knowledge of insects; and meditated writing the nat...

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• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1150495030
• ISBN 13: 9781150495038
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