"Surgeons Mate" Medical Treatise, 1639
Entitled: "Surgions mate, or A treatise discouering faithfully and plainely the due contents of the surgions chest." John Woodall (1570-1643) was an English military surgeon, Paracelsian chemist, businessman, linguist and diplomat. He made a fortune through the stocking of medical chests for the East India Company and later the armed forces of England. He is remembered for his authorship of The Surgeon's Mate which was the standard text to advise ships surgeons on medical treatments while at sea and contains an advanced view on the treatment of scurvy. The first edition of The Surgeon's Mate was published in 1617. Later editions contained treatise on "for the better curing of Wounds made by Gunshot" "of that most fearefull and contagious Disease called the Plague" and "A Treatise of chiefly for the Amputation or Dismembering of any Member of the mortified part." Frontispiece of the 1639 edition of Military and Domestic Surgery by John Woodall.
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