PHAER, Thomas [PHAYER; PHAYR] (1510 – 1560)
1510 – 1560
2 entries in the GMN corpus.
1544
#1590
A new booke entyteled the regiment of lyfe.
Translation by John Phaer of a book by Jehan Goeurot published in 1530. Garrison states that it is a version of the Regimen Sanitatis.
1544
#6317
The regiment of life, whereunto is added a treatise of the pestilence, with the boke of children.
The “boke of children” is the first work on diseases of children to be written by an Englishman the English language. Phaer enabled Englishmen to read and think of pediatrics in their own language. The edition include…