Authority Cited: Wiseman
Author name and dates: Richard Wiseman (1622?-1676)
BKG Bio-tweet: Surgeon’s apprentice; served in foreign armies; Royalist; with Prince Charles in exile; elevated at Restoration; plain style
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [ BKG Note: about 280 Wiseman cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 290 Wiseman cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. Four Wiseman cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italic below. The edition of the title below used by SJ is not known. The 2nd edition, 1686, has the same treatise titles as the 1734 edition.]
Author name and dates: Richard Wiseman (1622?-1676)
BKG Bio-tweet: Surgeon’s apprentice; served in foreign armies; Royalist; with Prince Charles in exile; elevated at Restoration; plain style
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [ BKG Note: about 280 Wiseman cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 290 Wiseman cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. Four Wiseman cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italic below. The edition of the title below used by SJ is not known. The 2nd edition, 1686, has the same treatise titles as the 1734 edition.]
- Surgery [Chirurgical Treatises]: Eight chirurgical treatises, on these following heads: viz. I. Of tumours. II. Of Ulcers. III. Of Diseases of the Anus. IV. Of the King's Evil. V. Of Wounds. VI. Of Gun-Shot Wounds. VII. Of Fractures and Luxations. VIII. Of the Lues Venerea. By Richard Wiseman, Serjeant-Chirurgeon to King Charles II. In two volumes, The Sixth Edition 1734, London: printed for J. Walthoe, J. J. and P. Knapton, R. Knaplock, R. Wilkin, D. Midwinter, A. Ward, A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, J. Downing, J. and J. Bonwicke, R. Robinson, W. Mears, R. Gosling, W. Innys and R. Manby, B. Motte, T. Ward and E. Wicksteed, S. Birt, D. Browne, M. Wiat, C. Bowyer, J. Osborn, W. Feales, and A. Millar (1st ed. Several Chirurgical Treatises, 1676 per Wimsatt, Philosophic Words, p. 159); abdomen; abscission; exhausted; laxity; regulate; temperate; tumour; vulnerary;
- Abscesses; consultation; digestive;
- Erysipelas; colewort;
- Inflammations; epulotic; embrocate; fontanel; hard; sarcotic;
- Tumors; chickweed; cicatrize; derivation; draw; dressing; revulsion; scirrhus; scrofula; succory;
- Ulcers; scapular/scapulary; slough;
- Wiseman (no work cited); disaffection; emphysema (new headword); fair; fluxion; hawk (not in 1773 Dict.); penthouse (not in 1773 Dict.);