Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 462.5

PHILIP BARROUGH (fl. 1590) The method of phisick, conteining the causes, signes, and cures of inward diseases in mans bodie from the head to the foote. Whereunto is added, the forme and rule of making remedies and medicines, which our phisitions commonly use at this day, with the proportion, quantitie, and names of ech medicine ... Richard Field 1590 [16], 392 p. 19 cm.

Barrough obtained a license to practice chirurgery in 1559 and one to practice physic in 1572. Method of Physick is his most popular work dedicated to Lord Burghley, advisor to Elizabeth I. The work had its seventh edition printed in 1652.

Cited references: Keynes, 261; Durling, 474; Cushing, B91; Wellcome I, 682