The Frenche chirurgerye, or all the manualle operations of chirurgerye, with divers, and sundrye figures, and amongst the rest, certayne nuefounde instrumentes, very necessarye to all the operations of chirurgerye.
And now truelye translated out of Dutch into Englishe by A.M. Dort, Isaac Canin, 1597.

"Ambroise Pare's pupil, an oculist and an obstetrician. He recommended podalic version and practiced Cesarean section in a dead mother to save the child. His L'Heureux Accouchment des femmes was published in 1609. He also wrote the first French book on opthalmology, Traites des Maladies de l'oeil, in 1585" (A Dictionary of the History of Medicine, Anton Sebastian).

"This work contains a good deal about dentistry; it describes pyorrhoea alveolaris for the first time and is also the first work to refer to inorganic materials for tooth fillings and for the construction of artificial teeth" (Morton's Medical Bibliography, Fifth Edition, Edited by Jeremy M. Norman)..

Contains the earliest uses in English of terms "Natural Science" and "Physiology" in the modern senses.

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