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David Edguard

An early English anatomist writing in the 1530s, he stands out as one of the first figures to publish anatomical work in Tudor England. Though little is known about his life, his surviving books helped mark a small but notable moment in the history of medical writing.

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Introduction to Anatomy, 1532 With English translation and an introductory essay on anatomical studies in Tudor England by C.D. O'Malley and K.F. Russell.

Introduction to Anatomy, 1532 With English translation and an introductory essay on anatomical studies in Tudor England by C.D. O'Malley and K.F. Russell.

by David Edguard

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David Edguard, also known as David Edwardes, was an English anatomist active in the early 16th century. Sources describe him as educated first at Oxford and then at Cambridge, where he received an M.D. in 1529.

He is known for two short works published in London in 1532: De Indiciis et Praecognitionibus and Introductio ad Anatomicen. The latter is especially remembered because it represents a very early English contribution to anatomical writing.

In the preface to Introductio ad Anatomicen, he reportedly promised a fuller anatomy manual, but there is no sign that he completed it. Because so few biographical details survive, he remains a shadowy figure, yet his name still appears in histories of medicine as an unusually early voice in English anatomy.