William Bullein
William Bullein (c.1515–1576) was an English physician and cleric.[1]
Life
On 9 June 1550 Bullein was instituted to the rectory of Blaxhall in Suffolk, where some of his relations lived. This preferment he resigned before 5 November 1554. He afterwards travelled on the continent to study medicine, and it is supposed that he took the degree of M.D. abroad. His name is not found on the roll of the Royal College of Physicians.[2]
Bullein died on 7 January 1576, and was buried on 9 January at
Works
In 1558–9 Bullein published A newe booke entituled the Gouernement of Healthe.
In 1562–3 appeared Bullein's Bulwarke.
In 1564–5 Bullein published A Dialogue bothe pleasaunte and pietifull.
Bullein wrote also:[2]
- A comfortable Regiment and a very wholsome order against the moste perilous Pleurisie, whereof many doe daily die within this Citee of London and other places …, London, 1562, black letter. Dedicated to Sir Robert Wingfield of Letheringham, knight.
- A briefe and short discourse of the Vertue and Operation of Balsame. With an instruction for those that haue their health to preserue the same. Whereunto is added Doctor Bullin's Diet for Health, London, 1585, black letter.
Some verses by Bullein are prefixed to
Family
Bullein married Sir Thomas Hilton's widow Agnes or Anne, and was in London with her in 1561. William Hilton, brother of Sir Thomas, accused Bullein of causing his death. Some legal actions followed, and while writing the Bulwarke Bullein was in prison for debt.[2] A widower by 1566, Bullein married Anne Doffield as his second wife in that year.[1]
Notes
- ^ a b c Wallis 2004.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Bullen 1886, pp. 244–246
- ISBN 978-0-521-52207-6.
- ^ A newe booke entituled the Gouernement of Healthe, wherein is vttered manye notable Rules for mannes preseruacion, with sondry symples and other matters, no lesse fruiteful than profitable: colect out of many approued authours. Reduced into the forme of a Dialogue, for the better vnderstanding of thunlearned. Whereunto is added a sufferain Regiment against the Pestilence, n.d., London, black letter.
- ^ Bullein's Bulwarke of defẽce againste all Sicknes, Sornes, and woundes that dooe daily assaulte mankinde, which Bulwarke is kepte with Hillarius the Gardiner, Health the Phisician, with their Chyrurgian to helpe the wounded soldiors. Gathered and practised frō the moste worthie learned, both old and newe: to the greate comforte of mankinde. Doen by Williyam Bulleyn, and ended this March, Anno Salutis 1562, London, black letter; second edition, 1579.
- ^ Bullein, William (1579). Bulleins bulwarke of defence against all sicknesse, soarenesse, and woundes that doe dayly assaulte mankinde: which bulwarke is kept with Hilarius the gardener, & Health the phisicion, with the chirurgian, to helpe the wounded souldiours ... Wellcome Library. London : Thomas Marsche.
- ^ A Dialogue bothe pleasaunte and pietifull, wherein is a goodly regimente against the fever Pestilence, with a consolacion and comfort against death. Newly corrected by Willyam Bulleyn, the autour thereof. Imprinted at London by Ihon Kingston. Marcii, Anno salutis m.d.lxiiii., black letter. Of this edition only one copy (in the Britwell collection) is known. The words on the title-page, "newly corrected", do not necessarily imply that there had been an earlier edition. Other editions appeared in 1573 and 1578.
References
- Wallis, Patrick (2004). "Bullein, William". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/3910. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
External links
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bullen, Arthur Henry (1886). "Bullein, William". In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 7. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 244–246.
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