The workes of that famous chyrurgian, Mr. John Banester...
Publisher Information: London: Thomas Harper, 1633.
Banister, John (1533/40? – 1610). The workes of that famous chyrurgian M. Iohn Banester; by him digested into five books . . . 4to. [16], 296, [8, including blank leaf], [16], 166, [2, blank], [16, including blank leaf], 233, [17], [4], 57pp. Woodcut title border. London: Thomas Harper, 1633. 189 x 140 mm. 20th-century calf, spine faded. Browned, with some foxing, small repairs to the title-leaf, ink stains and ink burns in the margins and on a few leaves, but on the whole very good. A few marginal annotations in an early hand. Bookplate of Ralph Hermon Major (1884-1970), longtime chair of medicine at the University of Kansas.
First Collected Edition. Banister, a military surgeon, later studied medicine at Oxford and received a license to practice from the College of Physicians; he attended Edward VI (son of Henry VIII) during the latter’s final illness. This collected edition of Banister’s surgical writings, published 23 years after his death, incorporates Banister’s annotated translation of portions of Johann Jacob Wecker’s Medicinae utriusque syntaxes (1576), first published in 1585 under the title A Compendious Chyrurgie, Gathered and Translated Especially out of Wecker. This work is devoted to the treatment of tumors (i.e., swellings), wounds, ulcers, fractions and dislocations; the first section, on tumors, also includes discussions of gangrene, scrofula, diseases of the eyes, ear, nose and mouth, and diseases of the abdomen.
Also included in the collection are reprints of Banister’s Needfull, New and Necessarie Treatise of Chirurgie, Briefly Comprehending the Generall and Particuler Curation of Ulcers (1575); his Antidotarie Chyrurgical Containing Great Varietie and Choice of All Sorts of Medicines that Commonly Fal into the Chyrurgions Use (1589); and a reprint of the first part of John Hester’s True and Perfect Order to Distill Oyles out of all Maner of Spices, Seedes, Rootes, and Gummes (1575). Banister’s Antidotary is a large collection of recipes for preparing drugs and other remedies used in surgery. English Short-Title Catalogue 1357.
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