CLOWES, William (1544 – 1604)
1544 – 1604
2 entries in the GMN corpus.
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1579 CE
#2373
A short and profitable treatise touching the cure of the morbus gallicus by unctions.
William Clowes, the greatest of the Elizabethan surgeons, published the first original English treatise on syphilis. It was his first work; it demonstrates the prevalence of the disease at that time (Clowes says that …
1588 CE
#2141
A prooved practise for all young chirurgians, concerning burnings with gunpowder, and woundes made with gunshot.
An interesting picture of Elizabethan surgery is given by William Clowes in this book on gunshot wounds. Clowes, the best surgical writer in Elizabethan times, was surgeon to St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. In amput…