A most excellent and learned woorke of chirurgerie, called Chirurgia parua Lanfranci

A most excellent and learned woorke of chirurgerie, called Chirurgia parua Lanfranci

Lanfrano, of Milan (13th century)

Hall, John, 1529 or 1530-

Anatomy

Poetry

The 16th century English surgeon, John Hall, translated the medieval Chiurgia parva of Lanfranc and added to it his lament for the poor training of surgeons in his own time. His poetical defense of surgery was intended to show "the behavour that is requyred in a true chirurgien to his paciente, and of one chirurgien to an other concernynge councell, honeste workyng, and knowledge, I have thought good to gather the councels, and good documentes of dyvers good and veterate authores, (and have formed the same into Englyshe verses, or metre), and here to place the same, for the better instruction of all yonge chirurgiens, that it may as well be easy to learne, as apte to be kepte in memorie, of all wyllynge learners." Here Hall defends the importance of the study of anatomy.

Excerpt defending the study of anatomy, from John Hall's English translation of Lanfrano's Chiurgia parva

Lanfrano, of Milan (13th century)

Hall, John, 1529 or 1530-

Thomas Marshe

1565

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Purchased for the Boston Medical Library through the John Warren Fund, 1934