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John-Banister

was born of honest and wealthy Parents, but in what County I know not; studied Logicals for a time in this University; afterwards entring upon the Physick line, solely gave himself up to the study of that faculty and chirurgery. In 1573 he was licensed by this University to practice Physick; about which time being settled in the antient borough of Nottingham lived there many years in great esteem, and was wonderfully followed by all sorts of People for his happy practice in that and chirurgery. His works are,

A needful, new, and necessary treatise of chirurgery, briefly comprehending the general and particular curation of ulcers. Lond. 1575. oct.

Certain experiments of his own invention, &c.

History of Man, sucked from the sap of the most approved Anatomists, &c. in 9 books—Lond. 1578. in a thin fol.

Compendious chirurgerie, gathered and translated especially out of Wecker, &c. Lond. 1585. in tw.

Antidotary chirurgical, containing variety of all sorts of Medicines,Clar. 1589. &c. Lond. 1589. oct. What other books he hath published I know not, nor any thing else of him, only that he was in great renown in the middle of the Reign of Qu. Elizabeth. several years after his death came out his works in six books, as

1 Of Tumours in general and particular

2 Of Wounds in general and particular

3 Of Ulcers in general and particular

4 Of Fractures and Luxations, (5) Of the curation of Ulcers, and (6) Antidotarie, beforemention’d. All which six books were printed at Lond. 1633. qu.