About Thomas Raynalde
Lived 1501 – 1550 (aged 48–49). Thomas Raynalde was a translator and physician.
Thomas Raynalde (fl. 1540–1551) was an English physician, known as the translator or editor of Eucharius Rösslin's De Partu Hominis. The translation was published as (often referred to as The Womans Booke) in 1545 and was highly successful, running to eleven or thirteen editions and remaining in use until 1654. A Compendious Declaration of the Excellent Vertues of a Certain Lateli Inventid Oile, published in 1551, is believed to have been written by the same person.
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Who was Thomas Raynalde?
Physician and translator or editor (fl. 1545–1551)
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Thomas Raynalde was born in 1501.
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Thomas Raynalde died in 1550.
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Thomas Raynalde was a translator and physician.
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