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Thomas Vicary and the Anatomie of Mans Body

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2012

Duncan P Thomas
Duncan P Thomas
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Medical History , Volume 50 , Issue 2 , 01 April 2006 , pp. 235 - 246
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1A profitable treatise of the Anatomie of mans body, compyled by … T.V. … Cheefe Chirurgion of S. Bartholomewes Hospital, which work is newly revyved by the chirurgions of the same hospital now beeing, London, H Bamforde, 1577; F J Furnivall and P Furnivall (eds), The anatomie of the bodie of man by Thomas Vicary … the edition of 1548, as re-issued by the surgeons of St Bartholomew's in 1577, Early English Text Society, No. 53, London, N Trübner, 1888; D'Arcy Power, ‘Thomas Vicary’, Br. J. Surg., 1918, 5: 359–62; Duncan P Thomas, ‘Thomas Vicary, barber-surgeon’, J. med. Biog., 2006, forthcoming.

2Diary of John Manningham of the Middle Temple … 1602–1603, ed. John Bruce, Camden Society, No. 99, London, Camden Society, 1868, reprint, pp. 51–2.

3 Furnivall and Furnivall (eds), op. cit., note 1 above, p. v; Power, op. cit., note 1 above, p. 359.

4 Margaret Pelling and Charles Webster, ‘Medical practitioners’, in Charles Webster (ed.), Health, medicine, and mortality in the sixteenth century, Cambridge University Press, 1979, pp. 165–235, on p. 188.

5 J F Payne, ‘On an unpublished English anatomical treatise of the fourteenth century’, Br. med. J., 1896, i: 200–3.

6 Ibid., p. 200; S A J Moorat, Catalogue of western manuscripts on medicine and science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library, London, Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1962, vol. 1, pp. 439–42.

7 Robert Nels Mory, ‘A medieval English anatomy’, PhD thesis, University of Michigan, 1977.

8 Ibid., pp. 17, 12.

9 Ibid., pp. 37, 39.

10 Sanford Larkey, ‘The Vesalian compendium of Geminus and Nicholas Udall's translation: their relation to Vesalius, Caius, Vicary and de Mondeville’, The Library, 1933, 13: 367–94, pp. 374–50; Payne, op. cit., note 5 above, p. 200.

11 Wellcome Library, MS 564, p. 94.

12 Furnivall and Furnivall (eds), op. cit., note 1 above, pp. 12–13.

13 John Halle, A most excellent and learned woorke of chirurgie, called Chirurgia parva Lanfranci, Lanfranke [sic] of Mylayne his briefe, London, Thomas Marshe, 1565, unpaginated.

14 John Aiken, Biographical memoirs of medicine in Great Britain, London, Joseph Johnson, 1780, pp. 65–6.

15 Ibid., p. 65.

16 Ibid., p. 66.

17 Payne, op. cit., note 5 above, p. 203.

18The ordre of the hospital of S. Bartholomewes, London, Richard Grafton, 1552; see also a reprint of the 1552 edition in The ordre of the Hospital of S. Bartholomowes in West-Smythfielde in London, London, The Hospital, 1997.

19 Record Office, Guildhall Rep. 12/2 f 449.

20 Larkey, op. cit., note 10 above, p. 370.

21 Harvey Cushing, Bio-bibliography of Andreas Vesalius, New York, Schuman's, 1943, p. 124.

22 Nicholas Udall, ‘The fyrste parte of thys treatise of anatomie wherein is conteyned a compendious or briefe rehersal of al and singuler the partes of mans bodie, etc.’, in Thomas Geminus, Compendiosa totius anatomie delineatio aere exarata, London, N Hyll for T Geminus, 1553, unpaginated.

23 Larkey, op. cit., note 10 above, pp. 376, 378–9.

24 Ibid., pp. 378–9.

25 Cushing, op. cit., note 21 above; Charles Singer, The evolution of anatomy, London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1925.

26 Furnivall and Furnivall (eds), op. cit., note 1 above, p. 7.

27 Sidney Young, Annals of the Barber-Surgeons of London, London, Blades, East & Blades, 1890, p. 531, cited in Pelling and Webster, op. cit., note 4 above, p. 177.

28 Young, ibid., p. 312, cited in Andrew Wear, Knowledge and practice in English medicine, 1550–1680, Cambridge University Press, 2000, p. 231.

29The surgions directorie, for young practitioners, in anatomie, wounds, and cures, &c., London, T Fawcet, 1651, preface.

30 Paul Slack, ‘Mirrors of health and treasures of poor men: the uses of the vernacular in medical literature of Tudor England’, in Webster (ed.), op. cit., note 4 above, pp. 237–73, on pp. 237, 248.

31 Ibid, p. 248.