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Cooke, James, 1614-1694
Mellificivm chirvrgiæ, or, The marrow of chirurgery : an anatomical treatise, institutions of physick, with Hippocrates's aphorisms largely commented upon, the marrow of physick shewing the causes, signs and cures of most diseases incident to humane bodies; choice experienced receits for the cure of several distempers ... illustrated in its several parts with twelve brass cuts.
London : Printed by T. Hodgkin, for William Marshall, 1685.
4th edition
This was the second book published by the Royal College of Physicians under the powers of the 1645 Printing Act. It provides a vivid account of Civil War surgery, and it is notable that the College next published an English edition of Paré's works which were by then a century old.
Wing C6015
