Severall chirurgicall treatises ...

This first edition of Richard Wiseman’s Severall chirurgical treatises from 1676, is seen as the work that breathed new life into British surgery and its author as the first of the great British surgeons. Observing over 600 patients in the work, Wiseman discusses the cause, clinical appearance, and treatment of tumors, ulcers, diseases of the anus, the 'King's Evil', wounds, fractures, and venereal disease. It is said by scholars that many of the treatises in the book have yet to be analyzed fully.