_ 〈…〉 〈…〉 the he! 〈…〉 of God d … diseases … n … ●s, what … rt 〈…〉 namely any man or children that be broke●n in their cods, so that their guts be fallen down into their cods, or 〈◊〉 other swellings: The canker or tyrtle, the colyck and 〈…〉 … e scar in the lip, or other diseases in the mo●●h. Also if any man have any disease in his eyen, whe●●●● it be with spurblindnes, or a wem or any other skin ●●●wen over the sight. These and other such like diseases ●an this foresaid master avoid and heal by the grace and help of God. ❧ Moreover if any be diseased with the pocks, or other privy diseases, or have sore legs of old or new greves: let him come to the foresaid master gerua's, which is lodged in it long Southwarck, in saint Thomas hospital. And he will heal him with the grace of God: the poor freely for the honour and love of God: and the rich for a reasonable reward.  
¶ God save the King.   

LIBRARY OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS THE HOUGHTON LIBRARY  
16 November 1959  
Dr. W. R. LeFanu, Librarian Royal College of Surgeons of England Lincoln's Inn Fields London, W. C. 2  
Dear Dr. LeFanu:  
Many thanks for the photograph of your quack bill. I cannot of course be certain of this, but I think it was printed by William Copland about 1550, that is it must have been not after the reign of Edward VI Copland used the ornament on the right hand in his edition of the Four Sons of Aymon, 1554, he having derived this ornament from winken de word where I have traced it in several uses. The zig zag ornament was also winken de Worde's, but about this period I havened found it used except" in the house of Berthelet", which should mean Thomas powel, where it occurs in STC 10477. However the type is Copland's and not winken de Worde's or Berthelet's, and I think that as Copland inherited a good many of these minor cuts of winken de Worde's and as the type is his, it would appear to be reasonably certain that Copland was the printer and that itrather later than itbeen hitherto dated. The difficulty of course is that the state of the cuts from the tears in the paper is difficult to establish, but certainly they look later than when used by de word.  
With kindest regards, Very truly yours, William A. Jackson WAJ: mbd