The workes of that famous chirurgion Ambrose Parey translated out of Latin and compared with the French. by Tho: Johnson. Whereunto are added three tractates our of Adrianus Spigelius of the veines, arteries, & nerves, with large figures. Also a table of the bookes and chapters.
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The workes of that famous chirurgion Ambrose Parey translated out of Latin and compared with the French. by Tho: Johnson. Whereunto are added three tractates our of Adrianus Spigelius of the veines, arteries, & nerves, with large figures. Also a table of the bookes and chapters.
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Paré, Ambroise, 1510?-1590.
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London :: printed by E: C: and are to be sold by John Clarke at Mercers Chappell in Cheapeside neare ye great Conduit,
1665.
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Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
Surgery -- Early works to 1800.
Anatomy -- Early works to 1800.
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"The workes of that famous chirurgion Ambrose Parey translated out of Latin and compared with the French. by Tho: Johnson. Whereunto are added three tractates our of Adrianus Spigelius of the veines, arteries, & nerves, with large figures. Also a table of the bookes and chapters." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A55895.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 13, 2024.
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CHAP. XXVI. Of a Cancer already generated.
* 1.1A Cancer is an hard tumor rough and unequal, round, immoveable, of an ash or livid colour, horrid by reason of the veins on every side, swollen with black bloud, and spread abroad to the similitude of the stretched out legs and claws of a Crab. It is a tumor hard to be known at the first, as that which scarse equals the bigness of a Chick, or Cicer: after a little time it will come to the greatness of a Hasel-nut, unless peradventure provoked by somewhat too
[illustration]
The figure of the Crab, called Cancer in Latin.
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acrid medicins it sodainly increase; being grown bigger, according to the measure of the encrease, it torments the Patient with pricking pain, with acrid heat, the gross bloud residing in the veins growing hot, and inferring a sense like the pricking of Needles, from which notwithstanding the Patient hath oft-times some rest.* 1.2 But because this kind of tumor by the veins extended and spread about it like claws and feet, being of a livid and ash-colour, associated with a roughness of the skin and tenacity of the humor, represents, as it were, the toothed claws of the Crab, therefore, I thought it not amiss to insert (as before) the figure of the Crab, that so the reason both of the name and thing might be more perspicuous.