Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Barrow, Philip
BARROW or BARROUGH, PHILIP (fl. 1590), medical writer, son of John Barrow, of the county of Suffolk, obtained from the university of Cambridge, in 1559, a license to practise chirurgery, and in 1572 a similar license to practise physic. It is probable that he practised his profession in London. He is the author of the ‘Method of Phisicke, containing the Causes, Signs, and Cures of Inward Diseases in Man's Body from head to foot. Whereunto is added the form and rule of working remedies and medicines, which our Physitions commonly use at this day, with the proportion, quantity, and names of such medicines,’ London, 1590, 4to. This popular work, which is dedicated to the author's ‘singular good lord and master,’ the Lord Burghley, reached at least its seventh edition in 1652. The impression of 1617 is called the fifth edition. There is in the British Museum an interleaved copy of it, with many manuscript notes.
[MS. Addit. 5863. f. 78; Herbert's Ames, 1253; Cooper's Athenæ Cantab. ii. 98, 545.]