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BRISCOE, John Potter was born on July 20, 1848 in Lever Bridge near Bolton, 20 July 1848.
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...displayed very considerable skill in surgery, and successfully operated upon persons of high social position and eminence in this country. It is believed that Arderne gained his surgical experience with the English forces during the French wars. "His writings prove that he was a man of clerkly attainments, with a good knowledge of Latin and French, and well read in the available literature of his profession, quoting freely from the woiks of the mediaeval surgeons, the Arabs, and even from the Greeks." Arderne established a great reputation, which outlived him by two centuries. His writings were numerous. The library of the British Museum contains twenty-two of these, both in Latin and in early translations, "some repeating or overlapping others in matter." In the preface to his "Practice or Treatise on the Fistula" (Sloane MSS. 563, f. 124) Arderne wrote as follows:--" Johan Arderne fro the first pestelence that was in the yere of our Lord 1349, delled in Newerke, in Notinghamschire, unto the yere of our Lord 1370, and ther I heled many men of fistula inano; of which the first was Sir Adam Everynham, of Laxton, in the Clay byside Tukkesford, whiche Sir Adam forsothe was in Gascone with Sir Henry, that tyme named herle of Derby, and afterwards was made Duke of Lancastre, a noble and worthy lord. The forsaid Sir Adam forsoth soufferend fistulam inano, made for to aske counsell at alle the lechez and coururgienz that he myght fiynd in Gascone, at Burdeux, at Bruggerac, Tolows, and Neyybon, and Peyters, and many other placez, and alle forsoke hym for uncurable; which y-se and y-herde, the forsaid Adam hastied for to torne home to his countree, and when he came home he did of al his knyghtly clothings, and cladde in mournyng cl...
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BRISCOE, John Potter was born on July 20, 1848 in Lever Bridge near Bolton, 20 July 1848.
Bolton by father. Engaged in tuition at Bolton, 1862-1866.
Assistant Borough Librarian at Bolton, 1866-1869. Member of Council Thoroton Society and Nottingham Shakespeare Society. F.R.H.S., F.L.A.; City Librarian of Nottingham since 1869; Vice-President of Library Association since 1891, of which he was an original member.
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Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Literary work, bowling, and snap-shotting.