, of whose personal history we have no account, deserves some notice,
, of whose personal history we have
no account, deserves some notice, as the first anatomical
writer in the English language. He was a citizen of Londdn, serjeant-surgeon to Henry VIII. Edward VI. Mary I.
and Elizabeth and chief surgeon of St. Bartholomew’s
Hospital, His book is entitled “A Treasure for Englishmen; containing the Anatomic of Man’s Bodie, 1548;
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or, as given by Ames, “A profitable Treatise of the Anatomy of Man’s Body; compiled by T. Vicary, and published by the Surgeons of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital,
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