JOHN OF ARDERNE (1307 – 1380)
1307 – 1380
2 entries in the GMN corpus.
1588 CE
#3416
A most excellent and compendious method of curing woundes in the head, and in other partes of the body: With other precepts of the same arte, practised and written by that famous man Franciscus Arceus ... and translated into English by Iohn Read, chirurgion: Whereunto is added the exact cure of the caruncle, never before set foorth in the English toung: With a treatise of the fistulae in the fundament, and other places of the body, translated out of Iohannes Ardern: And also the discription of the emplaister called Dia Chalciteos, with its use and vertues: With an apt table for the better finding of the perticular matters, contayned in this present worke.
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This translation by surgeon John Read contains the first printing of John of Arderne's writings on his operation for the cure of anal fistula, written originally about 1376. At one time John of Arderne practiced at Ne…
2014 CE
#5557
De arte phisicale et de cirurgia
JOHN OF ARDERNE (1307 – 1380)
JONES, Peter Murray SANDGREN, Eva Lindqvist SVENBERG, Torgny (1941 – )
John of Arderne was the first English surgeon of note. The Stockholm manuscript preserved in the National Library of Stockholm is an illustrated vellum roll nearly 18 feet long and 15 inches wide written in England in…