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EARLY HISTORY OF MEDICINE, HEALTH & DISEASE. Imagine holding history in your hands. Now you can. Digitally preserved and previously accessible only through libraries as Early English Books Online, this rare material is now available in single print editions. Thousands of books written between 1475 and 1700 can be delivered to your doorstep in individual volumes of high quality historical reproductions. This series includes fascinating studies on the human brain from as early as the 16th century, as well as early studies on the physiological effects of tobacco use. Anatomy texts, medical treatises and wound treatments are also discussed, revealing the exponential development of medical theory and practice over more than two hundred years.<br/><br/><br/> ++++<br/><br/> The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:<br/><br/> ++++<br/><br/><br/><br/>Guidos questions newly corrected. VVherevnto is added the thirde and fourth booke of Galen, with a treatise for the helps of all the outward parts of mans body.<br/>Chirurgia magna.<br/>De methodo medendi. Books 4. English.<br/>Guy, de Chauliac, ca. 1300-1368.<br/>Galen.<br/>Copland, Robert, fl. 1508-1547.<br/>The editor's name, George Baker, appears on A2r.<br/>A translation, by Robert Copland revised by George Baker, of selections from the "Chirurgia magna" of Guy de Chauliac, with book 4 of "De methodo medendi" by Galen and an epitome of book 3 of "De compositione medicamentorum per genera" of Galen. The antidotary is assembled from various sources, with contributions by William Clowes.<br/>The translation of the epitome of Galen's book 3 is by George Baker. The translation of Galen's book 4 is essentially a reprint of the adaptation, from Galen's "The institucion of chyrurgerie" (STC 11530.5), of Robert Copland's translation which first appeared in "The questyonary of cyrurg