Thomas Bretnor

Works

• 'A Prognostication for this Present Yeere … M.DC.VII. … Imprinted at London for the Companie of Stationers'. 'Necessary observations in Phlebotomie' and 'Advertisements in Husbandrie' are introduced into the work.
• 'A Newe Almanacke and Prognostication for … 1615'.
• 'Opiologia, or a Treatise concerning the nature, properties, true preparation, and safe vse and administration of Opium. By Angelus Sala Vincentines Venatis, and done into English and something enlarged by Tho. Bretnor, M.M.,' London, 1618. This translation, which is made from the French, is dedicated 'to the learned and my worthily respected friends D. Bonham and Maister Nicholas Carter, physitians.' In an address to the reader Bretnor defends the use of laudanum in medicine, promises to prepare for his readers 'italic=no,' and mentions his friends 'Herbert Whitfield in Newgate Market,' and 'Maister Bromhall,' as good druggists.