Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 547

RICHARD WISEMAN (1622?-1676) Severall chirurgicall treatises. Printed by E. Flesher and J. Macock, for R. Royston and B. Took 1676 [15] 498, 79 [13] pp. 30.5 cm.

Wiseman was surgeon to both King James I and King Charles II and was the outstanding surgeon in seventeenth-century England. This large work discusses the cause, clinical appearance, and treatment of tumors, ulcers, diseases of the anus, the "King's Evil," wounds (including gunshot wounds), fractures, and venereal disease. Wiseman realized the difference between gonorrhea and syphilis and was the first to describe tuberculosis of the joints.

Cited references: Cushing W250; Garrison-Morton 5573; Osler 4258; Waller 10368

Gift of John Martin, M.D.