48 CHAPTER 4 ■ 
hmidivarke of Surgery ^ Imprynted at Loii^^ 
don in Soiithwarke by me Peter Treverls; 
dvjeUing in the Sign of the JVodbwsi 1^26^ 
the 2ytij day of July, 
This volume is of the fmall folio form ; 
and if printed with numbered pages, would 
make three hundred and fifty, exclufive of 
the Preface and Index. It includes the 
animal, vegetable, and mineral fubftances^ 
ufed in medicine ; and is faid in the Intro- 
dudion to be " compyled, compofed, and 
aucloryfed by divers and many noble Doc« 
" tours and expert Mayfters in Medycynes 1 
as Avdcennay PandeBa, Conjiantinus, Wil- 
belmus, Flateariusy Rabbi Moyfes^ yohan* 
72 cs Mefoey Haly^ Albertus^ Bartholomeus^ 
' *^ and more other, &c/' 
There is no author's name to it; but 
there are indubitable traces of its beingj*^- 
hricated from the Hortus Sanitatisy and pro^ 
bably from the French tranllation of that 
work, printed by Caron^ at Paris , in 1499, 
with fome alterations and additions. 
It abounds with the barbarous and mif-* 
fpelt names of the middle ages, and is un- 
doubtedly the work w^hich Turner refers 
to 
