A French surgeon’s manual, published in English around 1700, teaches the whole art of surgery in question and answer. It covers bones and muscles, tumours, ulcers, simple and gunshot wounds, venereal disease and scurvy, fractures and dislocations, operations and bandages, and ends with a dispensatory of the remedies then in use.
A vivid document of early modern medicine for historians, not a guide to treatment: its remedies are long obsolete and often dangerous. Download the free EPUB.