A proved practice for all young Chirurgeons, concerning burnings with Gunpowder, and wounds made with gun-shot, Sword, Halberd, Pike, Lance, or such other.  
Wherein, is delivered with all faithfulness, not only the true receipts of such Medicines as shall make them bold, but also sundry familiar examples, such, as may lead them as it were by the hand, to the doing of the like.  
Hereto is adjoined a Treatise of the French or Spanish Pocks, Written by john Almenar, a Spanish Physician.  
Also, a commodious collection of Aphorisms both English and Latin, taken out of an old written copy.  
Published for the benefit of his Country, by William Clowes, Master in Chirurgery.  
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Seen, and allowed, according to the order appointed.  
¶ Printed by Thomas Orwyn, for Thomas Cadman. 1588.   

To all true professors of Chirurgery in general wheresoever, William Clowes, wisheth all happiness, with much increase of knowledge, and after this life, the most joyful and blessed life everlasting. Amen.  
I Have followed the examples of many excellent learned men, which in times past did usually dedicate their painful labours and travels, according to the worthiness thereof, some to Kings, some to Queens, Princes, Nobles, and other great personages, partly as testimonies of their own vowed affection and duty toward such worthies, and partly, as petitioners for protection to their labours under their happy patronage: who were therefore as fortresses of defence to support them against such, as then (and the like whereof we want not at this day) lay snarling, and scornfully prying into other men's doings, to blemish and deface the same as much as in their power consisted. In which respect, it was most truly said of a learned man, that he may be called a very good Cook, that is able to make one sauce to serve every man's taste. Or that man may be called a most perfect and rare man, whose works being published to the view of all men, can please every man's humour, especially in these days, wherein, are so many dainty cares, and so many queasy stomachs, with no want of railing tongues, which Horatius Morus, in his Epistle to Jerome Comfort, Doctor of Physic, declareth, saying: Is there any thing so sound, or so passing well handled, which can escape the venomous tongues of such as would sting Homer himself, if he were living at this day? Wherefore my loving brethren and friends, (I mean none but you that are the true professors of Chirurgery) unto you do I most willingly offer these my simple labours and travels, as heretofore I have done, hoping also you will as willingly receive it into your good Patronage, and to defend it with your friendly supportation, and that is all I crave: and that you will accept of it, as did King Artaxerxes the cup of cold water at the hands of poor silly Sinaetes. Then, as for the intemperate ears of the malicious sort, who make no difference between good and bad, or truth from falsehood: yet I trust, they shall do me no more discredit nor hurt, than had Prometheus of Thessalia, who received by the Sword of his mortal enemy, a great wound in his breast, for a full purpose and determination of his death thereby, but contrary to expectation, the same did cure Prometheus of a festered sore, which before did grievously trouble him, so the hand that meant to hurt, did heal, and the wicked determination of an ill digested mind, yet contrary to his expectation, had a good and happy end, no more hurt (I hope) nor no less good, shall my enemy's tongues, neither hands procure unto me.  
And now my friends and Brethren, to whom I so willingly dedicate these my labours, understand you, that my present purpose, through God's assistance, is to deliver, for the benefit of all young practisers of Chirurgery, certain observations and notes of some special cures, by myself accomplished, with divers needful and necessary remedies, proved most profitable, not only for burning with Gunpowder, but also for wounds made with gun-shot, Sword, Dagger, Harbard, Pike, or Lance, all which, I have gathered out of divers learned Authors, and by myself augmented with an addition also of a most excellent learned Work, written by john Almaner, a Spanish Physician, that doth entreat of the French Disease. Which Treatise, was delivered me by a good friend and a well willer, unto all the young practisers of Chirurgery, for whose sakes he Translated the same out of Latin into English, and required me to publish it forthwith: the which, (courteous Reader,) I have most faithfully set down, and adjoined it unto these mine observations, with certain Aphorisms both in English and Latin, very profitable for all young Students which are desirous of learning and knowledge.  
In which discourses, if I have slipped or overshot myself in my penning, I crave pardon, for I know, I shall make a rude performance of a good meaning, the which I commit in the end to thy consideration, and myself to thy courtesy.  
Vale, in Christo, William Clowes.   

Good men are not forbidden to hope for Honour for their virtue, sith both are the blessings of God.  
 blazon or coat of arms  

But some whose minds, a World will not suffice,  
As Caesar's reign, and others do despise:  
And such I say oft speak us fair in face,  
Yet work the spite men's credits to disgrace.  
Which done, full fine, as foes they will you scorn  
With open wrongs, which are not to be borne.  
But I conclude, let such say more or less,  
Nothing shall stand, but what Gods hand doth bless.    

The Epistle to the Reader.  
SInce I finished my last Book, entitled, De morbo gallico, the which I presented unto all the true professors of chirurgery, in Anno 1585. It was given me to understand, that a new Impression of my Book was presently to pass: then I weighed with myself, it would be very hard for me to accomplish all things that mine intent did lead me unto, for the correcting and enlarging of the same Book in so short a time, (wherein I know are divers faults escaped) but I promised hereafter, if God did permit me life and health, I would to my power supply all wants. So I willed the Printer to proceed, according to my former collection, for that I did suppose the matter sufficient, and the wants tolerable, if it were rightly censured by men of learning and skill in the Arte. But as for the scornful scanners, their commendations I disdain, for I know they are frozen in the dregs of their own corrupt judgements, and therefore whilst they should speak well of me, I might be thought like unto them: but if it shall please any good man, that is (I say) learned in the Art, who doth espy the wants and imperfections of my Book, that he will vouchsafe to publish an other work of his own collection or translation entreating of the same matter, then truly I will myself not only yield him his due commendations, but also be thankful to God that it hath pleased him to make my simple Book the cause of the publishing of any learned work. Which will be no doubt a benefit unto our Country and common wealth, notwithstanding the gainsaying of some, who continually spit forth poison out of their noisome and unsavoury mouths, against divers godly learned, and well disposed persons, who have with long and tedious labours published divers Books of Physic and Chirurgery in English. For say these malicious men in derision and scornful manner, Behold, these be our late London english Writers. In deed it is said, that Demosthenes himself, being a great 
Infallible signs of their vild dispositions.  learned man, could not avoid the snares of those that envy his diligence in the writing of his Books, which is so much the less grief unto me. But I answer these our backbiters, I mean, such as are guilty in this case, by desiring, that it will please them at their leisures, with a good conscience to walk uprightly herein, and to examine most of the Works of our late London English Writers, and then I trust they shall find no winking at abuses, nor holding of candles before the eyes of them that are stark blind, they have so zealous a care unto sincerity, and also that our young plants may be well and sufficiently watered with learning, and knowledge in the Arte. And this they have truly, and faithfully published in English, according unto that measure of knowledge, which God of his great goodness hath bestowed upon them. Thus you may plainly perceive the goodness of the tree by the fruit, but what is that, which envy hath not defamed, or malice hath not defiled? for envy and malice is a most mischievous trap or snare, wherein many heedless men do fall. Now followeth another sort of domestical enemies, and these (I think) are leapt out of Charon's Boat, and have wilfully drowned themselves in the whirlpool of slanderous reports. And these paragons will needs tread by-paths, to seek strange novelties. Yet if they were better advised, it would not be impertinent unto their credits, but they do account it odious to be reproved, or to suffer themselves and their abuses to be spoken of: and do most idiotlike behave themselves against Hypocrates and Galen, and all Galenists, whose worthy Works being extant to the view of all men, have purchased to their Authors amongst the good, eternal praises and credit for ever. Nevertheless, you may easily perceive what spirits they carry, that thus wound the dead with speeches of defame, and yet themselves in respect, ignorant in the Arte. And some of them are scarce able to write and read true English, but do brag without 
Too foul or impudent a fault in challengers or cavillers  measure (upon a very sudden) of their excellent cunning, which happily they had stolen out of the beggarly budgets, of some counterfeit stolen Peracelsian Quack saluer, or Mountebank, and yet moreover do challenge, to be the true Disciples of Peracelsus, but God knows, they are not worthy to serve under his regiment for pyonors: for they missinterprete Paracelsus whom truly they understand not, and condemn Hipocrates and Galen whom they never read. I would no man should think I go here abouts to speak against the thing that is good, neither do I seem to maintain the thing that is evil, neither will I reward any good man with evil reports for benefits and knowledge received, for truth is truth from whom so ever it come, be it from Hipocrates, Galen, Paracellus, or any other learned men. And therefore I say unto such aforesaid, let not the Painter go beyond his pencil, nor the Shoemaker beyond his shoe, for so his pride may have a fall, and all his honour lie in the dust.  
And now good Reader, seeing mine intent is not to hold my tongue at abuses, I will here a little farther decipher the rest of these exclaiming adversaries, which have most impudent strumpet's faces, that will I think blush at nothing: and here I will farther speak of an old cavilling companion, and a master of lies, one, whom hecretofore I have deciphered in my Book De morbo gallico, he hath with reproachful speeches returned again to his old humour, and spurned against Incarnatives. But all those young Students, which are desirous to be satisfied herein, amongst many other worthy Authors, read Vigo, cap. 21. fol. 175. which Book, Master Baker hath partly corrected, as himself hath there declared, or else read the old english Book translated by M. Traheron, fol. 111. cap. 21. so he that is but meanly read in the Art, may by his good endeavour and diligence, easily find and know the true nature and properties of Incarnatives of divers sorts, and therefore Incarnatives which have been devised by many grave and learned men, from succession of ages, are not to be rejected at the becks of every such like lame schoolmaster, or ridiculous ringleader, which will needs reach out his hand, and with his Momus pen lead others to seek a Diamond with a Link, which could show itself in the dark: but I marvel that his disciples or followers are not ashamed of so base a champion, or else one of them ashamed of another. It is said, that this wizard of late dreamt he was transformed like one of Actaeon's whelps, and that he had coursed a Colliers Cart, only to seek for one that had stolen away the King of the Frogs, which jupiter sent down in a great lightning and thunder, which dream, seemed to be far more dangerous unto him, than the strange Star which Doleto saw in Calabria: nevertheless, his naked name, and feigned forgery of this base borne bird, I mean not further to touch: let no such boasters be your warrant what soever they say, for he is called an ill Fisher, that crieth stinking Fish.  
Moreover, a new adopted Chick of this old Cock, and the very key of his counsel, is dropped out of doors upon a sudden, and 
This fellow is so wise in his own conceit, that he renounceth to follow the method and ways of euring, after Hipocrates and Galen, because they were Heathen men. I answer with the sayings of the godly, wise, and learned, that he which 〈◊〉 a Christian, will live as a Christian, and yet may take Physic and Surgery of a ●ew, if he have skill.  hath plunged himself in the bottomless sea, or filthy dregs of his aforesaid Grandsire's calvish judgements and opinions: and in the very pride and glory of his skill, he setting himself as it were in the chair of ignorance, (a fit Pulpit for such a Prophet:) did there with terrible stern looks, and squared speeches affirm, that indeed it was superstitious to use Incarnatives, which invading mind and attempt did become him as well as a ring of gold in a sows snout, whose will wants wit through prodigality to accomplish his childish intent and purpose. But now forsooth, this was urged and brought in by the similes of dog's tongues, and Momemyasse, a very deep wit to understand mysteries, and whose capacity herein, he saith himself, far passeth our reach, for his mystical knowledge, lieth secretly hid under the shadow of Apollo's gorgeous cloak, and beautified in print with Esculapius golden beard, wherein, there is neither grossness, nor impurities, as there is in our Incarnatives, etc. But the exalted essences foolosophically extracted by him, out of the egg of an Elephant, the mary of a whetstone, and the brains of a Woodcock, soirculate to digest in his barren head, and this is his misterium magnum, wherewith if he anoint their eyes, than ye shall (say they) behold certain Spirits that inhabit or dwell in the air, called Nenusareni, and Aerdadi: a high matter in a low house, which sore troubleth the wits of these wandering Pilgrims, which contrary to the direct line of equity wrong ballans the meaning of good Authors, and so think thereby, to patch and clout up their own silly credits, by pulling down and defacing of others, and thus would they root up that which they never planted. Therefore I may rightly compare this image of envy, and such like, unto the malicious man, which desired of jupiter he might lose one of his eyes, so that another whom he hated, might lose both his, etc. but I will now blot paper, or spend time no longer to answer any such, for it is no conquest to beat an Ass to death.  
Also, I mean to unfold the strange events that succeeded after the taking of a certain pernicious pill, which pill, as it is said, was sprinkled abroad by an odd bird of the same nest afore rehearsed. This Pill of his, was shadowed under the vale or title of Turbith mineralis, and it is no such thing.  
Moreover, it was said to be a Paracelsion Pill, but I am not of that opinion, for I suppose, no good or godly Paracelsion would have given it to a dog. The composition of the same vile Pill Master read hath discovered in his Book of Arceus lately Translated, and by him published, as a caveat for all good people to beware of that Pill. And in my simple judgement, 
Such abuse is never winked at, but when idiots ruleth the roast, there the just may be oppressed, and many a good cause trodden under foote.  no good man ought to countenance, allow, excuse, smother, or conceal so perilous a medicine, sith it hath left behind it so foul and filthy broad scars, that touched the lives of four persons, first, john Butler, Master of a Ship, a Barber surgeons servant of London, a Rope-makers boy in Rowsey, and one Master Washborne a Merchant, that died also in Rowsey. This cruel Pill was ministered unto these four persons by two simple fellows, who were Surgeons of two Ships, which said, they were deluded by this crow brightfast companion, which did write it down its their book of secrets, with his own hand, for a precious jewel, and there recorded it to be good for all diseases. a bad policy, and very ill devised, but how needful it is for all good men to beware of this Pill, let every man judge which hath care of his own health, yet I do not malice the person of the man, but his filthy Pill, 
There is no friendship to be had with such honest men.  although to see to, he is more fit to be made a turnebroche, or a Scullien of a Kitchen, then to be admitted to be either Physician or Surgeon, but it is said of a learned man, if such kind of knaves might be well punished for example sake, by the hands of the Magistrate for such offences, so should the young Students in the Art be less deceived. I do not here rehearse a tale of a tub, which requireth no longer remembrance, than the view, or looking on; but a matter of such moment, which ought to be eternised in thy mind, and although I know he dangereth his own welfare, that reproveth evil men's faults, 
Not. 1.  and shall lie open to slander and reproach, yet I suppose it better to be maligned of such, then to conceal so great a mischief, that might otherwise ensue by the farther spreading of so vile a medicine, and therefore I must crane pardon, for I do mean hereafter in this whole discourse, not to shun any such rotten roots as they come or chance to lie in my way.  
Hear I am I say farther priest and urged to unmask another of the same nest of young Snakes, or rather old subtle Serpents, who I trust in God, partly by me, and also hereafter, by the help of others more learned, they shall be all ferited (which way soever they go) from their wicked buries, mosses, and starting holes: and farther, I would have followed their abuses at this time, and also the abuses of others unspoken of, but that I have been prevented by some special causes, troubles, and lets, but if hereafter they do not amend, I will discover them to their shame, and their names. And therefore courteous and friendly Reader, note my sayings which I will openly publish, and judge with discretion. It is not long since that a subtle deluder very craftily, having upon set purpose his brokers or espials abroad, using sundry secret drifts to allure many, as did the Sirens by their sweet Sonnets and melody seduce Mariners to make them their prey, so did his brokers or espials deceive many, in proclaiming and sounding out his same abroad from house to house, as those use to do which cry Mistress, have you any work for the Tinker, at the length, they heard of one that was tormented with a quartain, then in all post haste this bad man was brought unto the sick patient by their crafty means, and so forth, without any tarriance, he did compound for fifteen pound, to rid him within three fits of his Ague, and to make him as whole as a sish of all diseases: So a little afore his fit was at hand, he called unto the Wife of the patiented to bring him an apple of the biggest size, and then with a pin writ in the rind of the apple Abracadabra, and such like, and persuaded him to take it presently in the beginning of his sit, for there was (saith he) a secret in these words. To be short, the patiented being hungry of his health, followed his counsel, and devoured all and every piece of the apple. So soon as it was received, nature left the disease to digest the apple, which was too hard to do, for at length, he fill to vomiting, than the core kept such a stir in his throat, that where to fore his Fever was ill, now much worse, a malo ad peius, out of the frying-pan, into the fire: presently there were Physicians sent for unto the sick patient, or else his fifteen pound had been gone, with a more precious jewel, but this lewd fellow is better known at Newgate than I will here declare. Such counterfeit Charmers, with Figures and Characters, Tagaltius doth condemn, as absurd and erroneous, which wicked practices he saith becometh no honest artist to use, or to exercise.  
It is also said, that in Arcadia, a Woman began to cure with wicked Charms, without the applying of any medicines, which being known in Athens, she was condemned by the Senate to be stoned to death: a just reward for such ungodly practices.  
I read likewise of another lewd Woman, which was accused of Witchcraft, the cause was, for that she did commonly take upon her to cure Men, Women, Children, and Beasts, by a certain Charm, the which, they say, she would do, only for a penny in money, and a loaf of bread. This thing was misliked of many good men in the Country where she did dwell, and for that cause, she was upon suspicion of Sorcery and Witchcraft, brought to the Assizes, and there arraigned for it. The simplicity of the old Woman was somewhat considered of by the whole bench, than the judges and the justices granted her this favour, that if she would truly declare unto them What manner of Charm it was she used, she should be delivered: and being in great fear, and doubt of her life, forthwith in the presence of them all, declared it to be as followeth.  
First (said she) after I had received the penny in money, and the loaf of bread, than my Charm was this.  

The Charm.  
1. My loaf in my lap,  
2. My Penny in my purse,  
3. Thou art never the better,  
4. Nor I am never the worse.   
Immediately after, the judges with the rest perceived it to be mere deceit, & cozenage: then they did straightly charge her, upon pain of great punishment, to leave off her delusions, and cozening of the people, & so she was discharged, as it is there said.  
I could speak of many other abusers of Physic and Surgery, but what redress would be had, I know not, and yet I do not mean to speak of the old Woman at Newington, beyond Saint George's fields, unto whom, the people do resort, as unto an Oracle: neither will I speak of the Woman on the Bank side, who is as cunning, as the Horse at the Cross keys, nor yet of the cunning Woman in sea-coal Lane, who hath more skill in her Colebasket, than judgement in Urine, or knowledge in Physic or Surgery. But I could discover many others, which practice physic and Chirurgery, with the bit in their mouths, and the reins in their necks, which do not only thereby deceive the simple people, but oftentimes the wisest men, and these are as hurtful, as moths in clothes, or canker rust in Iron.  
There are many other abusers about this City of London lurking in corners, and sometimes they do range and wander astray from town to town, from country to country both far and near, by sea and land, and these I suppose to be the very spawn and fry of that Rogish rout, which practised Chirurgery at Muttrell, in the time of that famous Prince King Henry the eight, which fraternity, and brotherhood of abusers of the Art, good Master Gale hath discovered in his Book of the office of a Chirurgeon, who saith, that they were all banished the Camp, and if they had not avoided with speed, they had been all hanged as thieves and murderers.  
And what shall be said to some, which not long since have been commanded to prepare themselves, and with all speed to serve her Majesty in the Wars, then presently with many solemn circumstances, did desire to be excused, protesting, that they had no knowledge in Surgery, but only, for the drawing, and stopping of a tooth, letting of blood, or for the cure of the french Rocks, and thus they did plainly throw all their skill in Surgery flat to the ground, which a little before shined most brightly in the eyes of many. But this I say is well known, let the service be once furnished with sufficient Surgeons, which oftentimes is very hard to do, than they begin to shake their chains, 
The greatest barkers are not the best biters.  and keep a stir, that they can cure that which all the best chirurgeons in London or elsewhere do forsake, but what manner of curing they use, I may not speak that I know. I could rehearse divers of this sty, but they would say my Book were seditious: but this may suffice for a caveat. Therefore these to say the troth, may fitly be compared unto a certain boasting bragger dwelling beyond the Seas, which did attempt to the great admiration of the standers by, to deck on with a cement for the 
Truth can never so well appear, as when it is compared with deceit and falsehood.  nonce, a man's ear that was clean cut off from his head, yet his glory was but short, for within two days, the ●arerotted, and fell off again, and he became a pointing stock to the whole Town and Country. I would no man should here misconstrue me, or to think I urge any thing in this my whole discourse, against any good or honest artist, for my meaning is not against any such, who have been, and are, in the Art, right diligent and studious for the good of our country & common wealth, but against such, as Vesalius, Tagaltius, Vigo, Arceus, Master Gale, Master Hall, Master Bannester, and such as these good men, do disallow, who have in all their whole discourses and writings, never sought for vain glory, promotion, or reward, but only by their virtues, and laudable studies, to make known the undiscreet, and vainglorious brags, frivolous vaunt, peevish practices, and wicked dealings, of a sort of abusers of the art and good artists. And I suppose no honest man else, which is a true artist, but doth, and will also detest and hate all such caterpillars, which suck the sap and eat the bread out of the mouths of many a good Surgeon, who have been very much decayed by reason of such ill persons, to the great impoverishment, not only of themselves, but likewise of their poor Wives and children. Which men are well known, if ability were answerable to their willingness and skill, to do her Majesty very good service in the Art, wherein they have been trained, and spent themselves a long time in travel and study for the attaining of the same.  
Now time calleth me to an end of this Epistle to the Reader, and of a part of the general discourses of abuses and abusers of the Art, and all good artists, and I will conclude with the last and the very worst of all sorts, and they are those, that with 
The more ignorant they are, the more bolder they are, and yet hate to be reproved.  open mouth stand upon their tiptoe, saying with many puissant and forcible reasons, Away with all these books, and bookmen, for they have made our Art too common. I perceive, it was not without great cause, that Pliny complained, and said, Like as there is no light without a shadow, no more is virtue without envy, but by God's good grace, I will return their speeches upon their own heads. Chilo the learned Philosopher said, That in Books you shall find written the verity and truth of things secret and unknown, the which time can never consume, nor fortune destroy, happy is that man which escapeth such Cyclops dens, without danger of the flux of their foul mouth, but I say unto them whatsoever they be, that only their naked experience which they so 
The foolish persuasion of naked experience, hath deceived a great many.  brag of, without learning in the Art, may sitly be compared to a tree without fruit. The first beginners of their sect of bussardly Empirics, I read was Philinus Cous. Acro. Agrigentinus, and Alexandreus, with others. And farther it is said, that their experience is nothing worth, that is not grounded upon reason, the mother of all Arts and Sciences, and reason and knowledge is gotten and made ripe by reading and weighing the well observed practices, and meditated rules of the generations of learned men, and diligent artists in time, gone before us, hereunto (I say) joining our own practice, we get us the more prompt and excellent understanding, how to put things in profitable execution▪ and thus both reason and experience matched togethers, maketh a perfect artist, and he that denieth this, hath neither wit, art, good experience, nor honesty▪ and so I conclude, that the reading of good Authors, is the school of wise men, for learning, and knowledge, is the most rare gift of God, which maketh men become famous upon earth: for example, as approved Histories do report, Plato, and Socrates, were well known to be two famous Philosophers, though they were the sons of two poor Citizens of Athens, for their well occupied minds in learning and knowledge advanced them to great honour, as it may appear by their great renown, large volumes, and infinite labours, remaining still unto posterities, and therefore it is as possible for an Owl to encounter with an Eagle, or a Wren with a Falcon, as for such boisterous blockheads, with their wooden practices, grounded only upon experience, the schoolmistress to fools, who with unequal comparisons, do challenge men of reason and knowledge in the Art, with their beaderowles of infamy, folaryes, fables, and old wives tales, long bred and nuzzled up in the storehouse of abuses, but it is a most true saying, and it is in these days come to pass, that every peevish Pan will compare with learned Apollo, but with spite and hatred in their hearts, every Momus will assail Minerva, with railing privily behind men's backs, and every Zoilus will bark at Cicero, with open injury in their deeds.  
But  

Ye may not fear such enemies  
To Art, and Authors good,  
Who though they fawn in flattery,  
Yet thirst they for your blood.   

For these have watched full privily,  
Such is their vile desire,  
Care ye not for their courtesy,  
Ne force ye of their ire.   

This warning for a caveat,  
To me it shall suffice,  
Except to those that will not see.  
A word may serve the wise.   
But our good God, which hath ever defended us from the ravening 
Beware of hypocrisy, shadowed under the cloak of friendship and amity.  jaws of such dangerous foes, or smiling serpents, which with stealing steps, do sow the seeds of sedition, with the hands of Briarious, will return all the evils which they do work upon their own heads. Thus (good Reader,) I will through God's assistance, proceed to the accomplishing of this small Treatise, notwithstanding their great threatenings to kill with Dagger, Sword, or Battle axe, but I little esteem of such, sith these my labours seemed in the opinions of men, both godly, wise, and learned, not to be unprofitable, or unworthy to come abroad, for the benefit of all young Students in the Art, whose Readings and practices, I wish most willingly that God may prosper. Amen.  
William Clowes.   

COurteous Reader, I suppose it almost unpossible at the first impression of any Book, but some faults will pass, be it never so carefully looked unto, yet none here I hope so egregious, but that I know every honest mind will friendly weigh the cause, & consider the troubles that is had in such works. But as for the malicious quarrel pickers, whose poisoned natures is to turn nothing to good, these, I say, will not only mislike and repine, but with their scorning looks rather watch to find faults, than with honest minds to amend those, which unwillingly have been committed: therefore I have gathered this small Errate: and if in the course of your readings, it will please you with your pens first to cover & correct the faults escaped, as it is here declared, & also very easy to find, both the chapter, leaf, and line, than I shall think myself most happy, & so wish you such profit by these my labours, as your own hearts do desire, & as the matter is able to afford, as knoweth God, who direct you in all these your studies and labours. Amen.  

Faults escaped.  
PAge. 1. Line. 9 for proclaiming, read proclaim. Pag. 3. line. 4. read foliorum maluarum, lin. 22. albumina cuorum. pag. 4. lin. 30. ●lei papaveris. lin. 31. unguenti. pag. 5 lin. 15 in the margin read Quercetanus. pag 6 lin. 26 foliorum maluarum. lin. 32. 32. unguenti. pag. 7. lin. 2. seminis ps●●●●▪ lin 10. 11 olei. li. 15. albuminum. pag 8. lin. 5. cinnabrij. lin. 7. Diachalciteos. pag. 10. lin. 18. radicum Bugloss●. pag. 11. lin 4. aqua fumiterrae lin 7. fumoterrae pag. 12. lin 6. cum gummi. lin. 9 Resin● pini. lin. 10. Gummi. lin. 13 colophoniae. pag 15. lin. 16. chamomillae, and in the margin, read Cataplasma anodinum pag. 16. lin. 6. & oculis populneis. lin. 26. Aquae hordei. lin. 28. sarcocollae. pag. 17. in the margin read Angeli Bolognini Restrictiwm. pag. 18. lin. 19 diamoron. pag. 22. lin. 13. seminis sinapis. pag 39 lin. 5. cum gummi. lin. 14. ophioglossi. lin. 17. nummulariae lin. 18. lilij con●all●um pag. 42. lin. 28. cautery. pag. 43 lin 15 peritoneum. pag. 45. lin. 16. cannabis. pag. 47. lin. 1. agrimoniae. li. 3. Androsaemi. li. 4. Aschyri li. 21. pilosellae. li. 23. Quinqueneruiae. pag. 49. lin 30. unguenti. pag. 50 lin 4. albumen unius ovi. lin. 14 cum gummi. pag. 51 li. 5. read distillentur ac separato oleo adiungantur, etc. lin. 12. galangae. li 15. nucis moscatae li. 16. cubebarum. li. 18. ligni. pag 54. li. 14. Empl. Resolutiwm. pag. 55. lin. 27. aceti pag 56. li. 6. read, vitellos ovorum tres. li. 29. & 30. unguenti. pag. 60. li. 28. epispastices. pag. 62. li. 14. 25. camforae. pag. 7. in the 1. and 2. line, are left out the doses of mellis communis, which should be lib. 2. and of vitriol. alb. which should be 4. ounces. pag. 88 lin. 20. read▪ & de janua.  
 depiction of surgery on a wounded man    

To his very good friend, Master Clowes Chirurgeon, all health, etc.  
IN writing of Books for the benefit of the studious, as I consider of sundry commendable courses taken by the Authors in that behalf, so yet is there none (in my judgement) more apt, either to amplify the Author's name, or else to increase the Readers knowledge, then that which is done by way of familiar examples and observations: for such are properly beawtifyed with these three amiable ornaments, Variety, Perspicuity, and Certainty whereof in several, the first delighteth, the second informeth, and the third assureth, but jointly, all concur, to the ready ripening, and speedy preparing of the Artist to answer the expectation of his calling. When 〈◊〉 therefore, the principal of your labour (Master Clowes) hath in this Book been, to deliver faithfully your experiments in the curation of wounds, with such plain instances of the medicines used in particular cases, and historical observations of their several successes, joined with the noting of occurrences, and prevention of accidents, as may in deed (according to your speech) lead the young artist by the hand to do the like, I do not only for mine own part, find myself bound to encourage and commend you, but dare also assure you, in behalf of the bette● sort, of all thankfulness: Hypocrates having led that trace in his Epid●micis, hath therein no small estimation with the learned Physicians Amatus, Valleriola, Coiter, Arc●u●, Dod●●●●●, and Skenchius, have again renewed that course, and received reverent account for their labours. The learned Cr●to in his old age, seemeth to have repent of nothing in that kind so much, as that he had not reserved and written the observations of his practice, by which he supposed his name might more have been commended to posterity, then by any other of his writings. I am not ignorant also, that to write observations of a man's practice, is a way, by which the Reader may be as much and perhaps more dangerously abused, then by any other, namely, if the Author should be unfaithful, or conceited in his own private opinions, which by this means he would seek to establish and obtrude unto the credulous reader, but as the later of these can not be objected against you, if the whole behaviour of your life may be taken for a testimony, so neither may the former be suspected by any that have care to guide their judgements by the rule of charity. Add hereunto, that beside the protestation you have made in the word of a Christian, concerning the verity of these things, and your sincere and upright meaning in the penning thereof, I am able, and will be ready in sundry points, and namely, in your medicines and prescripts, to testify that you have concealed nothing from the Reader. As for the ●e●t, with those also that I speak of, if their likelihood and probability may be sent among the learned and artistes of judgement to gather their voices, I doubt not but your side shall be full. But you say, your encouragement is greatly hindered, when you consider and call to mind, in what evil part things are nowadays taken, that were not evil meant, and that such as would seem wise men are become so foolish, that they can not hear the evil parts of base abusers disgraced, but by and by they must deem themselves in like ●ort thereby defaced. I see the ulcer you appoint me unto, I d●●●erne it to be Cacoethes, and the malignity thereof to be greater than any man can cure: but withal I deny, that it should be any worthy cause of your discouragement, nay rather I hold, that you are afresh to take courage against it, for divers reasons, first, for that the burden shall not lie only upon your back, but that others are charged in like sort with you, who will not shrink the shoulder from you in the bearing thereof, and many hands (you know) make quick and easy work. My second reason is, because the Devil intendeth thus by their means to uphold his kingdom of ignorance and wickedness still among us, against which, if we be enemies of his kingdom, we must needs make war with all our might. Thirdly, because this is an infallible truth, which you may write upon, that no man will misjudge, or malign your invectives against the wicked and their practices, or take themselves defaced by their disgrace, but such as have guilty consciences, and are privy to themselves, either of the same or like enormities, or at least, that they do maintain or wink at the same in others, when as rather by their places they should punish them: this latter sort (I hope) will be more wise, then to be found guilty of upholding iniquity, and if there have been oversights committed heretofore (as the best advised will not deny) I trust they will become more wary for the like hereafter, but the former ●orte are rightly touched in the old and common proverb of a galled horse back. When a great many kick at our dressing of two or three me●s sor●s, it is a sign that they are all infected with the like, and do therefore fear, lest we would lay hands on them also, and then what reproach can that be to us, when as our writings against a few notoriously nought, shall discover unto the world a greater number that are in secret: as nought, they can not say we have accused them, when as in deed their own consciences have first condemned them, wherein, if they had stood sound toward their ownehearts, nothing could have touched them, so that we see these sayings well confirmed, A good conscience is as a brazen wall. And again, An evil conscience is as a thousand witnesses against a man. Of these things, if I would stand long, I could say much, that should worthily redound ●o the shame and confusion of all such, but remembering the length of an Epistle, I will shut up the rest in this brief. One very aptly compared the conscience of a man, to the minor, or assumption of such Syllogisms as do conclude particularly upon a general charge or accusation propounded for example. The Law saith, He that killeth or maimeth, must be killed or maimed, the guilty conscience than assumeth thus: But I have killed or maimed, and so this conclusion cometh upon him, therefore I ought to be killed or maimed again, all writers in chirurgery do give this proposition, All unskilful men do wickedly abuse this Art, and aught to be punished, than the guilty conscience every where maketh this assumption: But I am an unskilful man, now followeth the conclusion on the neck of it, Therefore I do abuse the Art, and aught to be punished. So when any Writer describeth the properties of wicked practisers, he perhaps doth not say, this man is one, or such a man is such, but the consciences of those men, to whom such properties pertain, do tell them so much in their bosoms. Who then (I pray you) is their accuser but themselves? Yea, but (will some say) in your invectives against abusers, you describe the men so by their properties, as every one may know who you mean. I answer, first, I have known some, who think themselves no small men, that have greatly stained their wisdoms in misjudging such descriptions, therefore I wish men to be well advised in their Interpretations. Secondly, if it be so, as they say, that a man by his properties may be pointed out as with one's finger, my counsel is, that every man must labour to change away his evil qualities for good, that so, when they shall be spoken of, they may commend him, and not dispraise him. And verily me think, it is full of reason, that they, who are so angry for hearing of their qualities, should be much more ashamed to use them.  
Fear not therefore (Master Clowes) in the love of man's health, to show yourself even a vehement enemy, to all that hate, or hurt the same: Man's health (I say) craveth it at your hands to decipher such counterfeits in all their colours, that they may (at least) be avoided of the people, though they be not also punished of the Magistrate, which notwithstanding were most of all to be wished. I see you every where carefully except the sons of art, and all honest and diligent men in our calling, of purpose because you would not have your invectives applied to any that deserve them not. If then there shall be any one that will needs take the things that are spoken to himself, and so being angry at his own shadow, will also play Will Sommers part, in striking him that standeth next him: if any (I say) shall thus deal with you, imagine therein what good success you have had, that in laying for one Fox, you have caught a couple, one, whom before you knew by special properties: and another, who hath now revealed himself by the guiltiness of his conscience, double gain (you know) bringeth double rejoicing. In such sort verily, should I think the matter meetest to be taken, as namely, if I should declare of one that I know did give a Gentleman common precipitate (as it seemeth) but mixed with a little unguent out of his salvatory, for a pill to purge him with: and another that to remove a defiled bone, applied a fair Mallet and a chisel to the matter for more speed: and by the declaring of these, I should also rub the galled backs of others, whom I knew not before to be sick of that disease, were there not as good cause for me to be glad of the success of my discovery, as for all other men to take it to their advantage for the shunning of such impostors? the best men, I doubt not, will give their voices to this: the worst sort, I am sure, you mean not to make your judges. You have heard my judgement of your labours, and my opinion of your adversaries, the latter, your own experience and working shall daily confirm, the other, the Chirurgeons practise, and orderly imitation, shall abundantly ratify.  
And as I do entreat you for the publishing of this present fruit, so do I no less exhort you, to the keeping of other observations hereafter to the like use. In both suits I persuade myself, (for the good will you bear unto me) that I shall prevail.  
Your assured friend, and well-willer, john Banester.   

In praise and commendation of the Author and this Work, I. G. Master of Art, and Student in Physic and chirurgery.  
AMong many other good things of late published in the Art of Surgery, I cannot but praise, and greatly commend this brief and short treatise, set forth by Master William Clowes, proceeding from good judgement gotten by his industry and much experience by his own practice. I think verily that as no man of sound judgement can mislike the matter, so no man that is in credit for his honesty, will discommend the intent of the man, but rather attribute unto him the title he deserveth (a well-willer to his Country.) In the censures of the wise, a more necessary Work could not come forth in this Art, considering the time. Surely the want of that knowledge in many sorry Surgeons which in this book is manifested unto us, hath cost many a poor Soldier full dear, and hath made that stick by many Mariners, which they shall never be able to claw off whiles they live. For when they have been any way maimed or endangered with loss of life or limb, then comes the bare singlesoled Surgeon, as he rightly termeth them, and what to do by art knows not, yet something he must attempt, treading in his old cowpath, as though he were healing a broken head, or plastering of a kibed heel, having one or two boxes of green Salves, with a plaster of Diachilon, and a green grass Melilot, with their moth-eaten Mussilage, and these are good for sooth for all sores, and so committeth the health of the patiented to the main chance, a miserable thing, that warlike men should first fall into the hands of men, and afterward to be as it were massacred by such ignorant beasts. But that they may leave their brutish ignorance, and their savage cruelty, let them read over if so be they can, this directive again and again, and if they be not too too sottish, they shall find their judgement amended, their wits sharpened, their practice corrected, and their fingers directed, point by point, from the beginning of the cure, till the finishing thereof.  
Thou shalt find also hereunto annexed (good Reader) a learned Work for the cure of the french disease, written by a Spanish Physician. Also, certain singular Aphorisms, collected out of most excellent Authors, a Work worth the labour, and worth thanks to, for that a man may walk safely in this narrow compass, who before might be endangered of losing himself or his sense, in the wild forest of Aphorisms. And surely, we can not if we did as we should but greatly thank God, for that as in most other, so in this art, the necessary knowledge, and sufficient practice is brought of late into shorter volumes than ever it was, so that though we may say, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vita brevis, yet can we not of late years so rightly say 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ars longa, for now having the paths so well trod by our own countrymen, they better know our nature then Strangers did, we may walk safer with small study, than they could with tedious travail in time past. Heretofore men might well say, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 experimentum periculosum, because peradventure it cost many a man a limb, and many men might be spoiled▪ before experience were ratified. Now that which before was incultum nemus, being made parva siluula, a man may take a sure staff to lean unto, whereas before he might trust to a rotten stick, and so be deceived. Now because this notable work is wrought at home, up starteth Aesop's mangy cur, and all Actaeon's Dogs in a great cry; ready to pull down the authors hereof, but their master must be their master, bark and brawl they never so loud. Why they be so fell, I know not, unless it be that the bleareeyed man can not abide the candle, nor he that hath been brought up in a dark den, abide the light of the Sun: but to say the truth, Hinc illae lachrimae: ego excludor, ille recipitur. by this means they are known to be ignorant asses, and therefore by wise men worthily shut out of doors, which if Aesop's ass had been, he had not so dangerously taken acquaintance of his master. Yet there is another fly bites their galled back, as bad as this, for that every day more than other, the daws stolen feathers are plucked from him, and he known to be but a daw, what with the old, pulling the black hairs from their crown, and the young, pulling the grey from their foreheads, they must needs appear to be but bald bussards. and this is the cause they cry out, fie upon Books, for, Litera scripta manet, as they are knaves in grain, so they are fools in Print: but to speak much, were but a folly, for words with them are but wind, it is Morbus inveteratus, an old ulcer of the stomach, which if you touch, it fluxeth at the mouth, spewing out their poison against all learning and learned men, who would cure them of their foul evil. I have oftentimes marveled how they that are artistes in deed, can suffer such brasenfaced beasts to live among them, who if they be long tolerated, will cause Surgery to be of that credit, that a man had rather fall into the chaps of a mad Dog, then into the hands of a Surgeon. for as their words tend to the defaming of the most skilful, so their works to the disgracing of the Arte. wheresoever they go, they leave such a stink behind them, that all men that hath had to deal with them, cry fie upon them. To prove this to be true without a syllogism, look upon the aftercures that are among you. It is some men's work to rectify other men's errors. Hear I might speak to the worshipful company of Surgeons in London, among whom I know many have good knowledge, and also great reason joined always with their practice, Cicero contra Catalinam spoke to Senators, Hoc quis ferre possit, inertes homines doctissimis viris insidiari, st ultissimos prudentissimis, ebriosos sobrijs, dormientes vigilantibus, and therefore if either art or artistes be respected in this case, Non est lenitati locus: severitatem res ipsa postulat, such matters are not to be jested withal, the Stocks were a fit place for such persons to publish their skill. Hos igitur a vestris aris & aulis, a tectis urbis, a moenibus, a vita fortunisque, civium arcebitis, & tanquam hostes patriae, latrones Angliae, rectâ pergant in exilium. Who could tolerate either Molem invidiae, procacitatem linguae, or, Spolium populi, but every man hath spoken so much, and so little prevailed, that I am out of heart to speak any more. But yet I must needs tear off one rag more from their torn coat, before we part. These caterpillars, or peoplepollers, being thus painted out in their several colours, with their proper badge to know them by, well perceiving, that among so many torches, their pictures must needs be perceived, seek to cover themselves under other men's hoods, get other to compose, and they to subscribe, and then the work is theirs, and so they become of blind bussards, that can scarce write and read, great learned men. If Tully were alive, he would cry out, O honorem contumeliosum, such men in deed do rather aucupari gloriam, though ignominiosam, then publicae utilitati inseruire. I understand that Aesop's Ass is alive again, and would cover himself with a lions skin, but if he do appear, we shall perceive his long ears well enough, than were he best to keep himself within his own territory, lest he become by word much famous through greater folly. But suppose he can escape cleanly a while, yet will Academicus lie whispering hos ego, etc. tulit alter honorem, I could say something which I leave, expecting alteration of disposition, that would be like a water of great force, to try whether there were any figs in their bellies or no, but because the one may be wiser than the other, I keep silence, hoping that Philoponos shall have good words for his good will, and I would pray them all, that old Philadelphus for his friendly dealing might be free from their fury, but no salve I think can cure that sore, for this will ever be true, invidia virtutis comes, Envy follows virtue at the hard heels, not to tread in her steps, but to trip up her heels if she could. But to conclude, I think all have some kind of conscience or other, and there is magna vis conscientiae, & magna, saith Tully, in utramque partem, ut nihil timeant qui nihil commiserint, & poenam semper ante oculos versariputent qui peccarint, A clear conscience will acquit continually where good meaning is, but a cankered heart will always accuse where froward dealing is, and so farewell good Reader, and judge as thou seest cause, and apply that which is spoken in good will, to thine own profit.  
Vale. From Cambridge, june the 24. Anno. 1588.   

T. P. To his loving friend Master Clowes.  

IN tempests safe by Pilots skill we sail,  
In flattering snares true friendship us upholds:  
From loathsome grief good comfort doth us bail,  
These three in one, Clowes Book to us unfolds.  
He stirs the helm, and friendly comfort lends,  
When surges rage, when snares, when grief off ends.   

When outward sores as boisterous waves do swell,  
When venom hide, as flattering tongues do sting,  
When both as grief each heart with torments quell,  
When nought but death doth seem relief to bring,  
Then Clowes thy Pilot can from Sea to shore,  
From pain to joy, from sick to sound restore.   

Once Aesculapius Theseus son did cure,  
Machaon once did Philoctetes save,  
Their praise for this unstained doth endure,  
Such just reward good skill and knowledge have:  
Whom fame, unsought for, followeth at the last.  
Which sought for, by unskilful, flies as fast.   

Clowes as Apollo's son, by Art is said,  
Not one, but sundry Hippolites to save,  
And Banester Machaon seems, whose aid,  
As many Phyloctetes daily crave.  
How then, shall these not live in trump of same?  
Since thousands cured shall extol their name?   

Amongst which sort, myself although the last,  
Yet not the least part of their cure did find.  
Whose arm past cure, an Atrophy did waste,  
And sinews shrunk contracted out of kind,  
Which past all skill, unskilful Surgeons thought,  
To health by skill these skilful Surgeons brought.   

But as the sweetest cloth the moths do eat,  
And freshest Rose the canker seeks to spill.  
And as the stateliest towers the wind doth beat,  
And fretting lightning strikes the loftiest hill,  
So envy seeks the deadly foe of fame,  
By slanderous tongues to hinder their good name.   

The Dogs their vomit loves, the Goats their crags,  
The Swine delight to tumble in the mire,  
Our common proverb tells that scurvy nags,  
Are fittest for to please a scabbed squire.  
No marvel then though folly such embrace,  
Which seek by lies these skilful men's disgrace.   

Yet they shall shine as gold that rusteth not,  
When these as dross with shame consumed shall lie,  
Repining much that no report may blot,  
The rightful praise which of these twain shall fly.  
So Momus shall with these compared fleet,  
As doth the Beetle under Roses sweet.   

Fear not therefore these slanderous tongues reports,  
Which strike the best, but bad untouched do save.  
Of your good names they batter not the forts,  
But hating skilful, show what skill they have.  
Continue fast, strange cures procure your fame,  
Do good, and none but bad will touch your name.   
T. P.   

Now as followeth, is set down those cures, which by God's help have been finished and brought to perfit health.  

The cure of two Gentlemen grievously burned with Gunpowder. Chap. I.  
ALthough it be the manner of Fugitives and Landlepers, which run and gad from Country to Country, and from town to town, proclaiming their cures at the Market Cross, as did not long since one ranging runagate, who called himself johannes Petrus, alias Scleeves, which would needs take upon him to cut of a great Wen that long time had grown on a man's side: and without any tarience, with his flattering speeches and sweet words brought a sleep the poor patient to agree to have his wen taken away: the which in a short time he did attempt. And to show the worthiness of his handy work, presently did cut off the top or upper part of the Wen, which done, immediately after, to grace the rest of his work, he tied it round about the root with a strong ligature, to cause it bear out, & to show the more ugly unto the beholders: Then he trained his patient into the Market place, with all his sore side open and bare, for the market folks to behold. But God knows, within few days his poor patient, by his beastly usage, died: for which lewd abuse, a Gentleman of Derby, called Master Buckley, an Atorney of the law, upon an honest zeal and for conscience sake banished this abuser out of the Country as an outlaw for ever. I will not follow these men, or rather monsters, neither will I protract time, or use many circumstances, but now I come unto my purposed matter. It happened in anno 
Note.  1577. two Gentlemen were drying of Gunpowder in a brass pan, who, as it did appear, had no consideration unto the over heating of the pan, but without knowledge of the danger or care of themselves, did continually stir the powder with their hands, unhappily it chanced, the powder upon a sudden became on fire, wherewith they were most grievously burned, both hands and face, and also their bodies, and their clothes were set on fire, which caused them to make a most lamentable crying: which being heard of divers in the same house, and perceiving their chamber to be in a great smoke and smell of Gunpowder, presently they entered in, and with all haste that possible might be, did carry them into another room, and there they did cut, rend, and tear of all their clothes from their bodies: otherwise, without these helps, there is no question but they had been both burned to death. There dwelled near unto them a Gentlewoman, who did bring them into great ease with a whey, the which she made of veriuce and milk. Nevertheless, she being fearful to meddle any farther, 
A sign of a good conscience.  for that she never had experience in such great burnings with Gunpowder, and her stomach could not away with the sight nor savour of them, and then presently I was sent for: And after diligent view had, I did first anoint the parts that were blistered, specially on their hands and face, three times a day, for the spa●e of four days, with this remedy following, etc.  
Gale. Rec. 

Salis come. ℥. ss.  
Succi Cepae. ℥. iiij.   Misce.  
But where the skin was burned off, and the parts made raw and painful, there I used this unguent, the which I have infinite times approved in many cures that have been burned with Gunpowder, which medicine was never changed till the parts were perfectly whole, without any farther helps but only this.  
Clowe. Unguent Ambusi Rec. 

Axunglae porcinae lib. iiij.  
Olei lini lib. ij.  
Olei Ros. lib. j ss.  
ana. m. j 

Folia maluarum.  
Violarum.  
Nympheae.  
Plantaginis.  
Prunellae  
Vmbilici veneris.  
Androsemon.  
Sempervini.      
Infuse these six days, then boil it with a gentle fire of coals, till the herbs be parched, then strain it, and add thereto 

Cerae albae. lib. ss.  
Nitri Albi. ℥. vj.   And if you please in the bailing to put in of Shoemakers piece grease lib. i. your unguent will be the better: I have with this unguent cured many, and it is of my collection. But note this, that unto their eyes I applied this rémedie following.  
Rec 

Aquae Ros. rub. ℥. iiij.  
Lactis mulieris. ℥. ij.  
Ouorum albuminis. numero. ij.  
Saccari candi. q. s. Misce.   And I anointed the eye lids and the parts near thereunto with this excellent unguent.  
Rec. 

Olei Ros. ℥. viii.  
Cerusae lotae in aqua Ros. rub. ℥. ij.  
Cerae albae. ℥. ij.  
Albuminis onorum. numero. iiij.  
Camphorae. ʒ. ij. Misce, fiat unguent.    
In the end I finished these cures without blemish or signs of any burnings with 

Oleum ovorum, &  
Oleum amigdalarum, etc.    
I would be loath that any of the fruit of my labours should be profitable unto the wicked, or come into their hands, sith they are like Esop's cur, neither good to themselves, nor fruitful to others.   

Here follow certain remedies, good for burnings with Gunpowder. Chap. 2.  
IT is requisite to be noted and observed, that in any wise you attempt not to cut any of the blisters of them that be so burned with the flame of Gunpowder: for that will cause your patient to be in too intolerable pain: but they must be anointed, as aforesaid, with the same remedy for the space of three or four days, or else with any of these here set down.  

M●● sap.  Rec. 

Saponis nigrae. lib. j  
Mellis come. lib. ss.  
Salis come. ℥. j   Misce.  
Or this.  
Rec. 

Succi cepa. ℥. ij.  
Olei lini vet. or Varnish. ℥. j   Misce.  
Any of these may be used as aforesaid, and then if you please you may safely proceed in this cure with my unguent, or else with any of these here under written.  
Am. Parr his unguentum pro igne. Rec. 

Lithargiri auri. ℥. iiij.  
Olei Ros. ℥. iij.  
Olei Depapaveris. ℥. ij. ss.  
unguentum populeon. ℥. iiij.  
Camphor. ʒ. j   Misce, & fiat unguentum.  
Or this.  
Medici florentini. Rec. 

Olei Rosati. ℥. viii.  
Olei ex ovis. ℥. ij.  
Nitri albi puluerizati. ℥. ij.  
Cerae. ℥. j ss.  
Corticis med. sambuci. m. j   Misce, & fiat unguentum secundum artem.  
Or this.  

D. B.  Rec. The pith and bark of Elders, ana. ℥. ij. boil these in three pints of water, till half be consumed, then strain it, and add to oil of Nuts ℥. iiii. boil these till the water be consumed, and add thereto Cerae. q. s.  
Et fiat unguentum.  
Or this.  

josephus Quirsitanus.  Rec. Lard melted in the flame ℥. two. and power it into the juice of Beets and rue, the Cream of Cow milk ℥. i. Mucilage, of the seeds of Cidoniorum, & Dragagant, ana. ℥. ss. Misce & fiat unguentum.  
Or this.  

Jacobus We●kerus.  Rec. 

Calcis extinctae ℥. iij.  
Olei. lib. j  
Cerae lib. iij.    
Thou shalt every day once wash the chalk, and let the water be taken away with a sponge: do this ten days, then wash it with rose-water and let it dry, and then melt your Wax and Oil, and take it from the fire, and put in the calx, made in most fine powder unto the Oil and Wax. etc.   

The true manner and order of the curing of a Merchant of this city of London, which was wounded with gunshot. Chap. 3.  
A Few years past, a Merchant of good account in this City of London, called Master Thomas Gore, being at Flushing in Sealand, there making of great suit unto the Prince of Orange and the States, for the release of a ship and goods of his and his friends, which the Flushingers had taken at sea, in which time of his suit, he did stand at a door where his lodging was, beholding a band of Dutch Soldiers, as they were marching to the walls: And as it is the manner of Soldiers, in towns of war, to discharge their pieces as they pass by: so one of those Dutch Soldiers, that partly knew him, and the cause of his coming to the town, as the Gentleman himself confessed. This Soldier at that time had his piece charged with a bullet, and so shot at him, he having both his hands clasped together, and the bullet passed through the middle of both his hands, and fractured the bones, and also wounded him through the upper part of his left arm, and also broke that bone in many pieces, which did rend and tear the muscles, sinews, veins, and arteries: after which followed great pains, pulsation, and inflammation, that continued a long time, notwithstanding he was presently dressed by the Surgeons of the town, but he received of them small comfort or hope of his recovery. Then his friends being Gentlemen and Merchants of London, were by him given to understand that he was still from day to day worse and worse. Then they sent for him to London, and presently upon his arrival I was called unto the cure: And after conference had with a Doctor of Physic for his diet, purging and bleeding, I made ready forthwith this Cataplasma, which appeased the pains, and ceased the inflammation.  

ana. m. ij. 

Folia maluarum &  
Violarum. 
Cataplasma.     
ana. m. j 

Florum Chamomillae  
Fol. Ros.     
Boil all these in new milk till they be very soft, then stamp them in a mortar, and add thereunto 

ana. ℥. j ss. 

unguentum Ros.  
unguentum populeonis.    
Vitellos ovorum. numero. ij.  
Farinae hordei. ℥. ij.  
ana. ℥. ss. 

Radicis althae &  
Semina Psillij.      
Sometimes I did put in these mucilages of each ℥. two. and of oil of Ros. ℥. i. ss. with the crumbs of white bread steeped in new milk ℥. iii. Thus the parts were freed from all pains and enflammations: which being done, to shun the like dangerous accidences, which oftentimes in such wounds is hard to resist: therefore I applied round about the parts this defensive.  
Defensive. Rec. 

Oleum Ros. ℥. ss.  
Oleum Myrtini. ʒ. iij.  
ana. ℥. ss. 

Sanguine. Draconis  
Boli armeniaci  
Farinae Hordei    
ana. q. s. 

Albuminis ovorum  
Aceti Ros.     Misce.  
Mundificative. Rec. 

Mel. Ros. ℥. ij.  
Terebinthinae ℥. iij.  
ana. ℥. j ss. 

Succi Apij &  
Plantag.     Boil all these together a little, and then add thereunto, 

ana. ℥. ss. 

Farinoe Hord. &  
Fabarum.    
Sarcocollae. ʒ. j ss.  
Croci. ʒ. ss.   Misce.  
Powder that which is to be powdered, and mix all these together, stirring it continually, till it come to perfection. Notwithstanding I had very great help by this Mundificative, and the powder of Mercury precipitate, yet I was after constrained to use more stronger remedies: And amongst others, I found most profit in this powder following, which did not only take away the evil flesh, but also it did remove divers fragments and pieces of bones which were hidden within the spongeous flesh, etc. 
Clowes.   
Rec. 

Mercurij praecipitati. ʒ. iij.  
Aluminis combust. in aceto Ros. ʒ. j  
Cinalri. ʒ. ss.   Misce.  
Likewise I commonly used Emplastrum Diachalsitheos', and the gum plaster, published in my book De Morbo Gallico, in the 27. leaf, which plaster was invented and practised by a very excellent Surgeon a Frenchman borne, who followed the wars a long time under the King of Navarre, and also in the Low Countries: By chance coming over into England, fell acquainted with Master Baker, vn●d whom he did give this gum plaster, as he called it, & since by means it is come into many men's hands. Truly the plaster is worthy commendations, etc. But, as I have aforesaid, after I had taken away all the spongeous flesh, and mundified the wounds, and also removed the lose bones, than I next used my unguentum Incarnatiuum, whereunto sometimes I did mix Aluminis combust. in Aceto Ros. which unguent did not only dry up superfluous moisture, but it did moreover gently cleanse without any great mordication or biting: which being performed, than I did shortly after desiccate and dry up the said wounds with unguentum Desicatiwm, and Emplastrum Diachalsitheos'. And thus I performed this work and cured him perfectly within this City of London.   

The cure of one Master Andrew Fones, a Merchant of London, who being in a ship at the Sea, was set upon by the Flushingers, in which fight he was very dangerously wounded with gun-shot. Chap. 4.  
THis merchants Ship was set upon by certain Flushingers at sea, and being a long time in fight with them, and very sore oppressed by the number of men and Ships, yet they did fight it out until at the last by chance he was that into the upper part of his breast near unto Os forculae, or the channel bone, and so passed through till it came to the lower part of Os scapulae, or the shoulder blade, where it did rest till lie came to London, which was a long time: for immediately after his hurt, the ship was taken and carried to Flushing, where he was in cure, as he said, along time with two of the Prince of Oranges Chirurgeons, to his great cost and charges, yet it profited him nothing. Then I was sent for, and after speech had, I made probation and found where the shot was lodged: then I did without tarience, in the presence of divers skilful chirurgeons of London make incision, and there I did take out the shot. And after that there was great care ●ad of him by his friends, for that I did signify unto them the wound was not without danger. Then there was joined with me Master Doctor Lopus, one of her majesties Physicians, which afterward showed himself to be both careful and very skilful, not only for his counsel in dieting, purging and bleeding, but also for his direction of Arccus Apozema, amongst others it wrought most singularly: the proof thereof I never had until that time, but since I have used it, and I have found it a treasure for the curing of wounds in the breaft, whose composition I will here set down, etc. First, after I had taken out the shot, I preserved the wound with this digestive, the which I used upon tents and pledgets.  
Digestive Clowes. Rec. 

Terebinthinae lotae in aqua vita ℥. iiij.  
Vitellorum ovorum. nu▪ ij.  
Olei Ros. ℥. ss.  
Mercurij precipitat, biscalcinati. ʒ. j  
Croci. ℈. j   Misce.  
After the wound was herewith preserved, than I anointed it round about with oil of Roses warm, and Emplastrum Diachalcitheos dissolved in oil of Roses, and at every dressing I applied hot steuphs of white wine, and Aqua vitae. q. s. and I defended the wound from accidents with this defensive.  
Defensive. Rec. 

ana. ʒ. j 

Pul. ros. rub. &  
Myrtillorum.    
ana. ʒ. vj. 

Boliarmeniaci  
Ter●ae sigillat●    
ana. ℥. j 

Succotum Plantaginis  
& Solani    
ana. ℥. ij. ss. 

Olei Ros. omphac.  
& Myrtillorum.    
Aceti Ros. ℥. j  
Cerae. ℥. ij.    
In which time and space of the use of these outward remedies, I did give him to drink of this Apozema oftentimes q. s. 
Arceus Apozema.   
Rec. 

ana. p. iiij. 

Hordei mundat. contusi.  
Passularum mundatarum contusarum.    
Radicorum Buglossae contusae. ℥. iij.  
Gliceryzae contusae. ℥. j ss.  
Seminum cumini. ℥. ij.  
juiubarum, numero. xx.  
Prunorum, numero. xv.  
Radicum petrocelini contu. m. j    
All which being boiled in xiiii. pound of Rayne water, to the consumption of the third part, after that let it be strongly strained, whereunto shall be added▪ 

Penediarum. ℥. iij.  
ana. ℥. iij. 

Sirupi Rosarum  
& de duabus radicibus sine aceto.    
Saccari albi lib. ss.  
Cinamomi puluerizati. ʒ. j Fiat Apozema.    
And likewise for cleansing and mundifying of the said wound, I used this next following, and also many times beside with Basilico, mixed with Mercury precipitate.  
Petri Andreae Mundificatiuum. Rec. 

Terebinthinoe Venotoe lotoe in aquafumitoriae. ℥. iiij.  
Vitellorum ovorum, numero. ij.  
ana. ℥. ij. 

Mellis Ros.  
Sir. de fumitoria.  
Farinae orobi. ℥. iij.    
ana. ℥. ss. 

Thuris.  
Masticis  
Aloes hepaticae.    
Radicis Peucedani. ℥▪ j Misce.    
Also I injected inwardly with a ●iting this excellent losion, which did wonderful well mundify and cleanse the breast. 
Iniectio. Mundificativa. Vigon.   
Rec. 

ana. ℥▪ ij. 

Hordei mundati  
Lentium.    
Caudae equinae. m. j  
Ros. Rub. m. ss.    
Boil them in equal parts of common and Plantive water, cum modico succo mali punici, unto the consumption of the third part, putting thereto, when it is strained, 

Sacchari rub ℥. ij.  
Sir▪ ex infusione ros. ℥. iij.  
Croci. ℈. ss. Misce.    
After the parts were perfectly mundified, than I perfected the cure with these remedies here under prescribed.  

This injection doth mundify, incarn, & consolidate.  Rec. 

Aquae hordei lib. ss.  
Sir. ros. ℥. j  
Penidiarum. ℥. ij.  
Liqueritiae. ʒ. ij.  
Myr●●●▪ ℥. ss.   Misce.  
〈…〉 with the afore rehearsed infections I used this unguent, which is very necessary for such wounds made with gun shot: and I have approved it in many other cures.  
unguentum de Peto. Clowes. Rec. 

Succi de Peto. lib. vj.  
Adipis ovini. lib. ij.  
ana. lib. ss. 

Oleorum Ros. lumbricorum  
& Olei Hipericonis cum gummis nostrae inventionis.    
Terebinthinae Venetiae, ℥. xii. in aqua vitae lotae.  
Resini pini. lib. ss.  
Gummis Elemnij. ℥. vj.  
Olibani. ℥. iiij.  
Masticis. ℥. ij.  
Collophonij. lib. j  
Mellis Ros. lib. ss.  
Cerae albae. lib. j  
Vini albi. lib. j ss.   Misce, & fiat unguentum secundum artem.  
With these remedies and order here rehearsed I did perfectly make him whole, and cicatrized up the wound with unguentum desicatiwm rub. and so he remaineth unto this day, within this city of London.   

The cure of a certain Soldier that was wounded with gun shot in the low Countries, he was shot in at the bottom of his belly on the left side, and the bullet passed through and rested in the right buttock near unto Anum, where it lay secretly hid and could not be found for the space of three years, in which time it became a Fistula of a hard curation. Chap. 5.  
IN the year of our Lord 1573. I was sent for unto my singular good friend Master Richard Young, one of her majesties Justices of Peace of Middlesex, who did earnestly request me, that I would for his sake, if it were possible, that the foresaid Soldier, whose name was called Master Giles, might be recovered again and brought to his former health, for that he was known to be a very valiant man. Which cure in truth seemed to me to be very hard and difficult, for that he had been for the space of three years with divers very good chirurgeons, both beyond the Seas, as also in England, and yet his grief did still reverse and break out again. The reason I perceived, was, for that the place where the bullet lay could neither by probation nor conjecture, be certainly known where abouts it did rest, and that was the chiefest cause, I suppose, they failed in this cure. So at this worshipful Gentleman's request, I did take him in cure, and after probation made with probes of lead and wax Candles, and long and small flexible tents that were apt to yield to every crooked turning, yet by no means I could come to the knowledge or understanding where the bullet had conveyed and hid itself, neither could the patiented himself give me any certain direction thereof: then first of all I enlarged the mouth or orifice of the Fistula, with a tent made of a Spoonge, and for that the callous hollowness did penetrate deep, and as I have said, being uncertain of the bottom which was in that part where the bullet lay, therefore I ordained a long and small stiff tent made of fine lint without any gross threads in it, and so with the white of an Egg well beaten I framed my tents in length and bigness according to the greatness and smallness of the grief: which being thus prepared according to art, than I did anoint every tent flightly over with unguentum Rosarum, only to have the powders cleave fast & take better hold on the tents, whereby it might be so conveyed in to destroy and remove the callous hardness which was environed about the circuits or compass of the hollowness of the Fistula, and the first powder that I used for this purpose was this.  
Rec. 

Vitriol crud. ʒ. ij.  
Mercurij precipitat. ʒ. iij.  
Cinabrij. ʒ. ss.  
Boli armeniaci orient. q. s.   Misce.  
After that I had reasonably well enlarged the Fistula with the powder, I used it twice a week, and I removed the escares with unguentum Rosarum, and laid upon the same most commonly Emplastrum diachalcitheos dissolved with oil of Roses and the white of an Egg mixed together, and so applied it. And although I had herewith partly taken away the callous, yet I found not that profit and commodity, as heretofore I had done in the curing of divers other. Then hoping of better success with this strong powder following, the which I applied after the same manner and order, as the other aforesaid.  
The strong powder. Rec. 

Vitrioli albi combust. ʒ. j  
Alluminis usti. ʒ. j ss.  
Mercurij sublimati. ℈. j  
Boli armeniaciorient. q. s.   Misce.  
With this powder I did wholly destroy the callous, so far as it was possible to convey in my tents. Then supposing I had made way sufficient to have found where the bullet rested, but yet do what I could by searching, either when he stood up right, or stooped downwards as he stood when he was shot, all which profited nothing, till at the last I did consider that such Fistulaes' that hath more ●●●k●s or turnings then one, could hardly be cured by teuts: wherefore I followed the counsel of Tagaltius, who saith, in the cure of Fistulaes' where medicine by tents cannot be brought or conveyed into the bottom, as the cause doth require, then to use injections and liquors meet for the purpose, to be cast in with a string, is, saith he, greatly available, as I very well did prove by this cure: for I prepared this water following, the which I did cast it in with a ●●●ing that had a long pipe and a large barrel: The said water is called Aqua Fallopij.  
Aqua Fallopij Rec. 

ana. lib. j 

Aquae plantaginis  
& Ros.    
ana. ʒ. ij. 

Alluminis Roch.  
Argenti sublimati.      
Put all these together in a double glass, and boil it in Balneo mariae to the consumption of the fourth part. After I had cast in of this water, presently I stopped the mouth or orifice of the Fistula, and caused him forthwith to lie down upon his right buttock, according as the passage directed me, only to this end that the water should not return back again till it had wrought his effect, for within xxiiii. hours after he did greatly complain of extreme pains in his right buttock ●ere unto Anum, and there I did perceive it to be greatly tumifyed and swollen, than I applied on the out side of his buttorke where he complained this Cataplasma, which is a singular remedy in such causes. The composition is as followeth.  
Anodina. Cataplasma. Clowes. Rec. 

ana. m. j ss. 

Foliorum maluarum violarum.  
Hiosciami albi.    
ana. m. j 

Florun chamomelae.  
& Ros.     Boil these in new milk, and then add thereto 

Medullae panis. q. s.  
Farinae hordei. ℥. ij.  
Sem. lini. ℥. iij.  
ana. ℥. j ss. 

Oleorun ros.  
& Violarum.    
Vitellorum ovorum, numero, iii.  
Croci. ℈. i.   Misce.  
Thus I let him remain till the next day following in the morning, for than I had a good hope the water had found the passage and place where the bullet had seated itself. Then I called other in presence when I made incision upon the right buttock near unto Anum, & there by the inciston I took out the shot. And for that time to mitigate the pain I injected new milk and Sugar, with a little oil of Roses, and upon pledgets I applied unguentum Rosarum to remove the ascher which was made by the foresaid water, and I stayed the bleeding which came by the incision with Galens powder: and so he rested reasonable quiet all that day and the next night: then at the second dressing I ordained this unguent, the which I used till the pains and inflammation was ceased, and the said unguent is made of Axungia & oculorum populei, wherewith I mixed a small quantity of Mercury precipitate, then after I did mundiste it with this mundificative.  
unguentum mundificatiuum Rec. 

Gum. amoniaci. ℥. two.  
Galbani. ℥. i. ss.  
ana. ℥. i. 

Aloes  
Sarcoc.    
Terebinthinae. ℥. iiii.  
Resinae pini. ℥. ss.  
Olei ros. ℥. iii.  
Olei mastic. ℥. iiii.  
Mellis ros. ℥. i.  
ana. ℥. ss. 

Succorum plantaginis.  
Apij.  
Card▪ Bened.    
Viridis aeris. ʒ. iij.    
Dissolve your Gums in white Wine and make an unguent according to art: After that the parts were well mundified, than I did iniect in twice a day this injection, which doth both incarne and conglutinate.  
The injection of Tagaltius. Rec. 

Aqua hordei. lib. i.  
Mel. ros. ℥. iii.  
Saracol. ʒ. two.  
ana. ʒ. i. 

Olibani.  
& Myrrhae.    
Vini Maluatici. ℥. vi. Misce, secundum artem.    
Thus in a short time I finished this cure with this injection, & my unguentum de Peto, & the plaster of Diachalcitheos.   

The cure of one Master Henry Rhodes, one of the waiters of the Custom house, he being upon the water skirmishing with his piece, and by reason that the same had flaws in it, did break in many pieces, and made a great wound upon his chin, & carried away a good part of the manduble and teeth withal: moreover it did rend his hand in three parts very greatly: all which I cured again without maim or deformity. Chap. 6.  
AFter I had stitched the wounds of his hands and face, than I preserved them with oil of Hypericon warmed, and upon the same to restrain the bleeding I applied this Restrictive.  

Angeli Bolognini Restrictivi.  Rec. 

Boli armeniaci. ℥. j ss.  
ana. ʒ. j 

Sanguinis Draconis.  
Terrae sigillatae.    
Thuris gummosi. ʒ. ij.  
Pilorum leporis terrefact. ℈. ss.  
Ouorum albuminis. q. s.   Misce.  
And the wounds of the hand were defended from injurious accidences that commonly follow such wounds, that will admit no cure till they be removed by good industry and diligence, which was performed with this defensive. etc.  
Defensive. Rec. 

ana. ʒ. j 

Rosarum rub.  
Myrtil.    
ana. ʒ. vi. 

Boli armeniaci.  
Terrae sigillatae.    
ana. ℥. j 

Succi platag.  
& Solatri.    
Aceti ros. ℥. ij.  
ana. ℥. ij. ss. 

Olei ros.  
& Myrtil.    
Cerae. ℥. ij. Misce.    
Then with decent bolstering and rolling I preserved his hand for the first dressing, laying it orderly upon a palmistry of wood, bewrapped round with fine tow, and bound it easily so that his hand might safely lie on it, without stirring or removing any way. Then after the wound of his lip was also stitched, I used unto the wound of the outward part the oil of Hypericon warmed, which I applied to with pledgets of fine lint dipped in the same oil, and upon that the foresaid Restrictive. And I often dressed the wound in the inside of his mouth with syrup. ros. & Mel. ros. and also with this Gargarism here following.  
Gargarism. Rec. 

Aquae hordei. lib. j  
Succi granatorum. ℥. ij.  
Mellis ros. ℥. ij.  
Diamorion. ℥. j  
ana. ℥. iiij. 

Aquae ros.  
& Plantaginis.    
Alluminis Roch. ℥. ss.    
And thus also with bolstering the wound of his chin and convenient rolling of it, he rested till the second day, then at the second dressing I ordained steuphs of white wine with Aqua vitae, q. s. and my unguentum de Peto, which I used continually with the oil of Hypericon warmed, and the plaster called Diachalcitheos, and anointing the parts about with oil of Roses: and so this wound of his chin was in a short time perfectly cured. In like manner I prepared at the first for the curing of his hand also steuphs of white wine with Aqua vitae, q. s. and I ordained likewise this digestive, wherewith I continued until▪ the wounds did yield perfect matter, in which time no accidence ensued that did hinder the ordinary course of curing.  

Pigesti●●m  Rec. 

Terebinthinae lotae in aqua vitae. ℥. ij.  
Vitellorum ovorum, nu. ij.  
Croci. ℈. ss.  
Olei Ros. ℥. ss.  
Farinae hord. q. s.   Misce.  
A convenient digestive in such wounds is necessary, because of the alteration of the air, & for bruising & renting of the parts so dissevered: how be it, digestives may not be used over long, for than it will certainly too much putrefy the parts. Moreover, I used in the time of Application of this digestive, Oleum lumbricorum, and Oleum hipericonis, of each equal portions, and twice a day I dipped the pledgets of the digestive in these oils, and anointed the part about with warm oil of Roses, and a plaster of Diachalcitheos dissolved with oil of Roses, and the white of an Egg being all relented together, and so I continued with bolstering and rolling, as aforesaid, till the wound was well digested. Then I did mundify those wounds of his hand with this Mundificative which Master Rasis the French Kings Surgeon did give unto me: and it is a singular remedy in such wounds, as I have many times approved.  

Francisci. Rasij. Mundificatiuum.  Rec. 

ana. ʒ. iij. 

Pul. Aloes.  
Myrrhae.  
& Gentianae.    
ana. ʒ. ij. 

Pul. utriusque Aristolochiae.  
& Centaurij minoris.    
Pulueris ireos florent. ℥. ss.  
ana. q. s. 

Accipiantur omnia cum ●ir.  
Ros. siccar.  
& Absinthij.    
Addendo Aquam vitae. ℥. j   Et fiat linimentum.  
After the wound was well mundified, than I prosecuted unto the end of the cure with mine Incarnative, and sometimes I mixed with it, as aforesaid, aluminis combust, in aceto Rosarum, and after brought it unto a perfect cicatrize with this unguentum de minio following.  
unguentum de Minio. Rec. 

Minij levissime triti. ℥. ij.  
ana. ℥. two. 

Olei rosati.  
Olei myrtini.     Coquantur lento igne cum cera alba. ℥. ss. Misce, & fiat unguentum secundum artem.  
Now here I will draw unto the end of this cure, the which I performed within this City of London. About the same time, one Henry Battey a Cheesemonger, dwelling at Broken 
The cure of one Henry Battey a Cheesemonger of London  Wharfe, which by overcharging of his Dag that did break in many pieces, and the breech or screw of the Dag did fly up into the corner of his eye and fractured the bone, and so passed up into his head, and the wound presently was closed together, that those chirurgeons which were before called unto the cure, supposed the wound to be very small, and went about to heal it up▪ but still he did grow weaker and weaker, and in the end he was speechless, that divers times the bell toulled for him. Then I was sent for, and forthwith I enlarged the wound by incision, and I took out the screw of the Dag out of his head, and the pieces of fractured bones, and so in a short time after I cured him within this City of London, and yet he liveth until this day.   

The cure of a certain Soldier that was shot through the leg, and fractured the great bone called Ostibiae, or Foscilla maior. This wound fell to gangrene within two days, by reason of a wonderful inflammation that followed, he having also a very full & plethoric body. Chap. 7.  
THis Soldier was of a hot choleric and furious nature, and his body was replenished with evil humours. The parts about the Gangroene was marvelously inflamed, which greatly increased the fury and spreading of the said grief: so that forthwith I scarified the affected part with deep sections and scarifications. And I opened with a lancet all the small veins that did appear about the gangrene, but where Horseleeches is to be had, it is very profitable to apply them, but in the stead of Horseleeches to opening the small veins with a lancet is available, but not so good as the Leeches, because they suck and draw out the adusted blood▪ which is congealed and compact in the veins and parts inflamed: then I fomented the corrupt part two times a ●ay with this Lixivium, which did excellently cleanse and consume the filthiness and corruption.  

Lixivium Am. Parrei.  Rec. 

Aceti optimi. lib. j  
Mellis ros. ℥. iiij.  
Sir. acetosi. ℥. iij.  
Salis come. ℥. v.   Boil all these together and then add thereto Aqua vitae. lib. ss.  
When the corrupt part was herewith well fomented and bathed, than I applied upon it this unguentum Aegiptiacum.  
unguentum AEgiptiacum. Rec. 

ana. ℥. iij. 

Floris aeris.  
Alluminis roch.  
Mellis come.    
Aceti acerrimi. ℥. v.  
Salis come. ℥. j  
Vitrioli Rom. ℥. ss.  
Sublimat Puluerisati ℥. ij.   Misce, & fiat unguentum secundum artem.  
Thus with pledgets of lint I did apply unto the corrupt part, and upon the same also this Cataplasma, of which I have had sufficient trial.  
Fallopij cataplasma. Rec. 

Rapum unum domesticum.  
unam satis crassam radicem Raphani.   Let them be scraped and sufficiently cleansed, then take 

Pulueris seminis synapij. ℥. j  
Gariophilorum. ʒ. iij.  
ana. q. s. 

Olei seminis lini.  
Olei nucum iugland. vetustissimi.      
Let these be laboured in a mortar to the form of a plaster or Cataplasm, and then use it, etc. Moreover, there was applied about the mortified parts three or four times double this Defensive, which is of a marvelous good operation, for it comforteth the member, and will not suffer it to receive corruption.  
Desensiue Vigonis. Rec. 

ana. ℥. iiij. 

Olei ros. ex olivis immaturis.  
Olei myrtini.    
ana. ℥. ij. 

Succi plantaginis.  
& Solani.      
Let all these be boiled till the juice be consumed, then strain them, and add thereto 

Cerae albae. ℥. j ss.  
ana. ʒ. i. ss. 

Farinae fabarum  
Farinae lentium.  
Farinae hordei.  
Sandalorum omnium.    
Boli armeniaci. ℥. j  
ana. ʒ. i. 

Pulu. myrtilorum.  
Granorum & foliorum eius.     Misce.  
By these means afore rehearsed, the gangrene was stayed, in which time and space the Liver vain was opened, and his body was purged with Diacatholicon, and at sundry times we did give him to eat of fine Mithiridat a little quantity at a time, which, as Tagaltius saith, is marvelous good to defend the filthy and venomous fumes from hurting and offending the Heart, which venomous vapours commonly ascend up from the corrupt member: And during all which time he was adjoined to a thin and cooling diet. Then after that the gangrene was by these means fully and wholly stayed, than the aschers were after removed and taken away by these remedies now next ensuing.  
unguentum Tetrapharmacon Galeni. Rec. 

ana. q. s.  
Picis nigrae  
Resinae.  
Cerae.  
Adipis vaccinae.   Fiat unguentum.  
Then I did take of this said unguent ℥. iiii. of the ointment that is made of Axungia and Poplear buds ℥. iii. whereunto I did add the yolks of two Eggs, all which together was well laboured in a mortar, than I did therewith remove the aschers, which being done, the part affected was after perfectly mundified with this most excellent unguent.  

Mundificatiuum optimum Vigon.  Rec. 

Terebinthinae clarae. ℥. iiij.  
Mellis rosati colati. ℥. ij.  
ana. ℥. i. 

Succi plantaginis.  
Succi Apij.     Let them boil unto the consumption of the juice, then take them from the fire, adding these here under written. viz. 

Statim, vitellos duorum ovorum.  
ana. ℥. j 

Farinae hordei.  
Farinae fabarum.     Misce.  
And after the place was thus well mundified and cleansed, than i did incarn and heal it up with unguentum ceraseos parvum Mesuae, and with my unguentum incarnatiuum mixed with Allumin. combust. in Aceto ros. etc.  

unguentum Ceraseos parvum, Mesuae.  Rec. 

ana. ℥. j 

Aristolochiae.  
Ireos.  
Sanguinis Draconis.  
Hamoniaci.  
Sarcocollae.    
Lithargirilevigati. ℥. v.  
Olei. lib. j   Misce.  
And likewise I used this plaster following always upon the foresaid unguent, until the end of this cure.  
Emplastrum nigrum. Rec. 

Olei ros. lib. iiij.  
Cerae albae. lib. ss.  
Minij. lib. ij.  
Camphor. ℥. ss.    
Boil together your Minium and Wax till they be black, then put in your Wax, and last your camphir. And thus within the space of ten weeks he was safely cured, and his bone was again united and knit, his splints and roullers were taken also away, and the plasters that did remain about his leg, for the curing of the fractured bone was likewise removed: and thus I finished this cure as effectually as though he had never received hurt. But if the gangrene should yet have increased, as oftentimes I have seen, notwithstanding these and such like good remedies, than the last help will be miserable, that is, to cut off the corrupt member in the whole and sound parts, etc.   

The manner and order of the taking or cutting off a mortified & corrupt leg or arm, which cometh oftentimes by reason of wounds made with gun-shot, etc. Chap. 8.  
SIth as I have said, that oftentimes it happeneth, by reason of evil accidents which follow wounds made with gun-shot, the whole member doth come to gangrene Sideratio or Sphacelus, so that we are many times constrained forthwith to make a speedy dispatch to cut off the member, which shallbe done as Master Gale very skilfully hath appointed in the whole and sound parts. And if it so fall out, or happen, that a leg is to be cut off beneath the knee, then let it be distant from the joint iiii. inches, and three inches above the knee: and so likewise in the arm as occasion is offered. These things being observed and noted, then through the assistance of almighty God, you shall luckily accomplish this work by your good industry and diligence. But you must be very circumspect and careful of all things which concern the methodical perfection of this work, that is, you shall have a great regard to the state of his body, as also for evacuation and dieting: And after his body is prepared and purged, than the same morning you do attempt to cut off the member, be it leg or arm, let him have two hours before some good comfortable Caudle, or other broth, according unto the discretion of the learned Physician, or Chirurgeon, only to corroborate and strengthen his stomach. And in any wise omit not, but that he have ministered unto him some good exhortation by the Minister or Preacher: And you shall advertise the friends of the patiented, that the work you go about is great, and not without danger of death: for that many accidents or syntomies do run and flock together unto such great wounds: which desperate evils in such causes will many times admit no cure. All which being considered, then ordain the night before some good defensive, and let it be applied two or three times about the member.  

Defensive Clowe●.  Rec. 

Emplastrum Diachalcitheos. lib. j ss.  
ana. ℥. j 

Succi semperuivi.  
Succi plantaginis.  
Succi Solani.    
Olei ros. ℥. ij. ss.  
Olei myrtini. ℥. j  
Ouorum albumin. nu. ij.  
Aceti ros. ℥. j   Misce.  
And oftentimes I have used this with good success.  
another defensive. Gale. Rec. 

Boli armeniaci. ℥. viii.  
Farinae hordei. ℥. iiij.  
ana. ℥. ij. 

Sanguinis Draconis.  
Terrae sigillatae.    
Olibani. ℥. j ss.  
Aceti. ℥. iiij.  
Albumin. ovorum. q. s.   Misce.  
All which being well considered, you shall have in a readiness a good strong form and a steady, and set the patiented at the very end of it: then shall there bestride the form behind him a man that is able to hold him fast by both his arms: which done, if the leg be to be taken of beneath the knee, let there be also an other strong man appointed to bestride the leg that is to be taken of, and he must hold fast the member above the place where the incision is to be made, very steadyly without shaking, and he that doth so hold should have a large hand and a good gripe, whose hand may the better stay the bleeding: but in some bodies it will not be amiss to admit bleeding, specially in such bodies as are of hot complexions 
In hot complexions we are many times constrained the second or third day to open a vain, only to prevent a fever, and in bodies of evil constitution. It is also very necessary to empty or loose the belly by suppositories or Clysters, if cause so require, etc.  and do abound in blood. And I have known through the skilfulness of the houlder not much above ℥. iiii. of blood lost at a time: but in weak bodies it may not be suffered to lose much blood: for blood is said to be the treasure of life, for which cause a good houlder is not to be spared. In like manner there must be an other skilful man that hath good experience and knowledge to hold the leg below, for the member must not be held too high, for staying and choking of the saw, neither must he hold down his hand too low for fear of fracturing the bones in the time it is a sawing off, and he that doth cut off the member, must be sure to have a sharp saw, a very good catlin and an incision knife, and then boldly with a steady and quick hand cut the flesh round about to the bones without staying, being sure that the Periostium or pannicle that covereth the bones be also incised & cut with the Nerve that runneth between the two bones of the leg, which shall 
Also he must have a good quick eye, a strong arm, and a stout heart.  be done with your incision knife: all this being orderly performed, then set your saw as near the sound flesh, as easily you may, not touching it, and with a light hand speedily saw it off, then having prepared also in a readiness this restrictive powder to stay the flux of blood.  
The restrictive powder. Clowes. Rec. 

Boli armeniaci. ℥. iij.  
ana. ℥. j 

Sanguinis Draconis.  
Aloes.    
Olibani. ℥. j ss.  
ana. ℥. ss. 

Terrae sigillatae.  
Masticis.    
Croci martis. ℥. ij.  
Lapidis hematites. ℥. ss.  
ana. ℥. j 

Calcis ex testis ovorum.  
Mummiae.    
Gypsi. ℥. vj.  
Farinae volatilis. ℥. iiij.   Misce.  
Take of this powder as will serve your turn, and mix with the said powder Pilorum leporis terrefact. & ovorum albumin. ana, quantum sufficet, and let the Hare hairs, I say, be cut as fine as possible may be, so much as will bring it all to a reasonable thickness, and when the powder is thus prepared, before you cut off the member, let there be in like manner made for the purpose three or four small bolsters or buttons, fashioned in the top or upper part like a doves egg or as a Sugar loaf button, flat in the bottom to the compass of a French Crown, and round upwards as aforesaid, and these you shall make of fine Tow, according to art wrought up in water and vinegar, whereupon you shall apply some part of the restrictive: And when the boulder of the member above doth partly release the fast holding of his hand by little and little, by which means you may the better perceive & see the mouths of the veins that are incised and cut, and upon the ends of those large veins that are incised and cut, you shall place the round ends of these three or four small buttons, and upon them presently without tarriance, place a round thick bed of Tow made up in water and vinegar, so that it be fit as near as you can gesseit, to the compass of the stump or member that is taken of, and thereon spread of the restrictive, and upon that you shall lay an other brother bed of Tow made up as aforesaid, so large that it may compass the member over, & that it may be safely tied to keep fast on the rest: and upon the two beds of Tow spread the Restrictive reasonable thick afore you place them to, and you shall tie on the large bed of Tow being cut first with a pair of Sissers in iiii. parts thereof, one cut right over against another an inch long and somewhat more, that the said bed may be bound to with the more ease. And you shall tie the large bed to, as I said, with a ligature, which they call a chokeband, doubled two or three times, being flat and fully an inch broad, and a yard long: in the middle of the said ligature you shall spread some of the restrictive, whereby it may take the better hold to the large bed of Tow: after it hath remained on a small time, being thus fast tied, than you shall place upon these a double large bed of soft linen cloth: and then with a strong roller of four inches broad, and three or four yards long, let it be artificially rolled, and where as the blood beginneth to show through all, in that place you shall specially lay a good compressor or thick bolster made of Tow wrought up in water and vinegar the thickness almost of a man's hand, and thin towards the edges, and in compass of a Philip's dollar more or less, as you suppose the greatness of the flux to be, and couch them close to, in as many places as the blood doth show itself: and thus with three or four roulers and as many soft linen beds, some single and some double, with sufficient number of bolsters, some great and some small, you shall artificially stay the flux of blood: which order and way did yet never fail me, nor any other that have used the same, according unto the order here prescribed. Some also do use to draw over the great bed of Tow a wet Ox bladder, and pulleth it close up over the same, the which they tie fast to with the aforesaid ligature or chokeband, and upon the same a double or single linen bed: and thus with a few broad bolsters and roullers they also very orderly stay the flux of blood: All which being orderly done, than you shall easily as possible may be, carry the patiented to his bed, having a pillow made ready to rest the member on: Thus let him lie with as much quietness as may be, keeping a convenient diet, than the third or fourth day you shall have in a readiness steuphs of white wine, with a decent roller, etc. Likewise prepare for the second preservation of the wound this digestive, or the like.  
Digestive. Rec. 

Terebinthinae in Auqa vitae lotae. ℥. iiij.  
Vitellorum ovorum. nu. ij.  
Olei Ros. ℥. ss.  
Sir. Ros. ℥. j  
Masticis. ʒ. ij.  
Farinae hordei. q. s.  
Croci. ℈. j   Misce.  
And apply upon the same digestive this plaster following, or the plaster called Flos unguentorum.  

Emplastrum de Peto, or Hyosciami lutei. Clowes.  Rec. 

Resinae. lib. ij.  
Cerae albae. lib. j  
Adipis hircinae. ℥. iiij.  
Gummi Elemni. lib. ss.  
Aquae vitae. lib. ss.  
Succi de Peto. lib. iiij.    
And if you cannot get Succi de Peto, take in the stead thereof Hyosciami lutei the quantity aforesaid, boil all these till the juice be consumed, then strain it, and after make it up in ruffs. This plaster I have proved to be good for wounds made with gun-shot: And after the wound is well digested and brought to perfect matter, than you may mundify the same with this gentle mundificative, or the like.  
Mundificatiuum. Rec. 

Mellis Rosati. ℥. iiij.  
Farinae hordei. ℥. ss.  
Terebinthinae. ʒ iij.  
Resinae. ʒ. ij.  
ana. ʒ. j 

Thuris.  
Masticis.    
ana. ʒ. ss. 

Myrrhae.  
Sarcocollae.    
Cerae. ʒ. ij. 
If you add to of Cerae one ounce, it is not amiss.   
ana. ℥. iij. 

Olei mastic.  
& Hyperic.     Misce.  
Or this.  
unguentum mundificatiuum. Rec. 

Mellis. ℥. x.  
ana. ℥. j 

Farinae Siliginis  
Lupinorum.  
Hordei.    
ana. ℥. ss. 

Myrrhae.  
Aloes.    
ana. ℥. iij. 

Succi apij.  
Absinthij.    
Terebinthinae clarae. ℥. ij.   Misce, & fiat unguentum secundum artem.  
For Incarnatives you may use unguentum aureum, unguentum ceraseos Mesuae, or that which is of my collection specified in my book De Morbo Gallico, or this Incarnative following, which I have used in such causes, and it profiteth this cure greatly, specially in children, and in soft and tender bodies.  
Rec. 

ana. ℥. vj. 

Terebinthinae clarae.  
Olei rosati.    
Resinae pini. ℥. iiij.  
Cerae citrinae. ℥. iij.  
Gummi Elemni. ℥. ss.   Misce, & fiat unguentum.  
And sometimes I mixed herewith Alluminis combust. in aceto rosarum, and being made into very fine powder q. s. it would then also gently cleanse without pain, etc. And I did usually deficcat and dry up the same with this Desiccative, and sometimes with unguentum de minio, etc.  
unguentum desiccatiuum. Rec. 

ana. ℥. j 

Antimonij.  
Cerussae.    
ana. ℥. ij. 

Plumbi usti  
Lithargiri.  
Terebinthinae.    
Olei rosati. ℥. iiij.  
Cerae albae. ℥. iij.   Misce.  
Powder that which is to be powdered, very finely, then dissolve at a gentle fire of coals your Wax Oil and Cerebinthine, and in the cooling put in the powders, etc. But if you have not this my powder always in a readiness, you may then use vigo's order, that is, to cauterize the place with a bright cauterising iron fit for the purpose, made red hot: or else with good Master Gales powder, which I will hereafter set down 
The iron is most excellent, but that it is offensive to the eye, and bringeth the patiented to great sorrow and dread of the burning and smart.  in this book, which powder of his was a worthy invention, and better pleased the patients than the burning irons, which were, I say, very offensive unto the eye, and yet the powder wrought with extreme pain, and made a very great ascher, & by that means the bone afterwards hath been cut off new again, as I have seen many times within the Hospital of S. Bartholomew's, and so did make a very long work or ever they were cured: but this powder here published never causeth pain, but often bringeth with it reasonable white matter. The foresaid powder is of my collection and gathering, the which I did put first in practice in the Hospital of Saint Bartholomew's, as it is well known unto some of the Surgeons that then served there, and yet live within this City of London, who were present with me when I first put it in practice, after the order before declared, at which time there was taken off in one morning seven legs and arms, and so by God's assistance, we stayed all their fluxes of blood, without any pain unto them, but only in the compression and close rolling and tenderness of the wound excepted. After it was made known, there were divers that were desirous to have it: amongst the rest Master crow, a man of good experience and knowledge in the art, he was very earnest with me for it: and for divers special occasions, I was the more willing to give it him, but I would not deliver it unto him as then, till he had seen with his own eyes first the experience and proof of it. Not many days after the worshipful Masters of the said Hospital requested me with the rest of the Surgeons to go to Highgate to take off a maids leg which they had seen in the visitation of those poor houses: The said leg was so grievously corrupted, that we were driven upon necessity to cut it off above the knee, which we did perform by this order here before prescribed, and he did see, we stayed the flux, and lost not much above ℥. iiii. of blood, and so cured her after within a very short time. Then I gave him the order and making of the said powder. Only this I am to give you to understand, that I have since my first collection, added other Simples, which profit it greatly: And I have also given it unto many good Surgeons, who were men both sober, wise and learned, as well in London as in the Country, that have been thankful for it: But I must needs say again, some other there are, whose tongues can unfold secrets, and their capable heads understand great mysteries, unto whom I have likewise friendly given it. These men were not only unlearned, but also shameless, and such have rewarded me again, even like unto the churlish Cur unto whom relief was offered, whose malice is such, that he never respecteth the goodness of the gift, nor the courtesy of the giver, but snarleth and snatcheth at him that offereth relief to help to satisfy his hunger: a slender recompense for so great a courtesy. To speak hereof I am taught by experience, for having bestowed on them, not only this profitable powder, the which now most willingly I present unto all the young professors of chirurgery, etc. and I know they have used the same, unto the profit of their patients and credit of themselves: yet nevertheless, some could find in their hearts behind my back to render me no other thanks, than did the churlish Cur, who rewarded evil for good. In stead of thanks I have been backbitten: and thus I reap for my labour but chaff for corn: ill will and private grudge, for courtesies and friendship offered. I do not here compare any good man unto any such had persons, neither will I compare any such bad persons unto any good man. But (now gentle and courteous Reader) I do crave pardon, for that I do here with the Macedonian call a spade a spade, a backbiter a backbiter. And so I end, wishing all good Artistes to take heed and beware, unto whom they impart their secrets, lest they also enter into the gap of ungratefulness, or the unsavoury dunghill of their despiteful tongues.   

Now follow very good approved remedies for wounds made with gun-shot, which may be used with Flamula, if the bullet have passed through, or else with tents according to the depth and greatness of the wound. Chap. 9  

Am. Parrie  Rec. 

Mercurij precipitati biscalcinati. ℥. j  
Butyri recentis. ℥. iiij.  
Vnguenti basilicon. ℥. iij.  
ana. ℥. j 

Olei liliaci, &  
Lini.    
camphir ʒ. ij. dissolved in Aqua vitae. q. s.   Misce, & fiat unguentum.  
Or this.  
Rec. 

unguentum Basilicon. ℥. ij.  
Butyri recentis. ℥. j  
Mercurij praecipitati. ʒ. ij. ss.   Misce, & fiat unguentum.  
Or this.  
Digestive Clowes Rec. 

Terebinthinae lotae in Aqua vitae. ℥. iiij.  
Vitellor. ovorum. nu. ij.  
Vnguenti Populeon simplic. ℥. ij.  
Olei rosarum. ℥. ss.  
Mercurij precipitati. ʒ. ij.  
Croci. ℈. j   Misce.  
This Digestive being used with Oleum catulorum of 
A note or observation.  Master Ambrose Parries description, hath a certain league and soctetie or faculty to appease pains, and to alter and change the contused substance of flesh, made by the bullet, into perfect matter: but if the part affected be possessed with any distemper or inordinate accidents, which often follow such wounds, sometimes by reason the body is replenished with thin and seirrous humours, called of the learned Cachochimia, and other distemperatures, specially in such bodies as abound in choler, phlegm, and melancholy, than it is convenient to make evacuation by purging the humour most molesting and abounding, which is to be done with great discretion. There are other noisome causes which follow these wounds, and do, as it were, excruciate and torment the patiented with great inflammations, fluxes of blond, fevers and convoltions, which suddenly invade the body: which if they be not with speed cured, it wasteth the strength, and the recovery of the patiented is to be lamented, and death speedily ensueth. So these things being foreknown, diligently weigh and considered, may by God's assistance, be prevented, where Reason and Experience are copartners and partakers together.  
This Oil is also good for wounds made with gun-shot.  
Landrada. Rec. 

Oleilini. lib. ij.  
Terebinthinae. lib. ij.  
Viridis aeris pul. ʒ. ij.   Misce.  
Or this which is called Oleum catulorum.  

This oil doth appease pains and also removeth the bruised or contused flesh. Am. Parrie.  Rec. 

Olei viol. lib. iiij.  
Catulos duos.  
Verminum terrestrium. lib. j   Boil these over a gentle fire of coals till the flesh be separated from the bones, then strain it, and add thereto 

Terebinthinae Venetae. ℥. iiij.  
Aquae vitae ℥. j    
Some of late have added unto this Oil the leaves of Nicosiana, or Peto, with other herbs, and they say it profiteth greatly: but I have used it without any addition, as Master Ambrofe Parrie hath himself published, and for the worthiness thereof I can speak by experience: for being sent for by letters from Right Honourable, and also by her majesties commandment to go into the Low Countries, to attend upon the Right Honourable Earl of Leicester, Lord Lieutevant and Captain General of her majesties forces in those Countries, and shortly after my coming thither, I was commanded by his Excellency to have a great regard unto the hurt and wounded Soldiers, and there was likewise in that service, Master Goodrouse one of her majesties Surgeons, 
It is more tolerable in him that praiseth his own virtues, than he that boasteth of other men's deeds.  who was also employed about the curing of the wounded Soldiers, and without praise of myself or flattery to others here nominated, but only I speak it to the praise of almighty God, there did not die, to my remembrance, one man that was then hurt with gun-shot, so that he was not first wounded to death, but he was shortly after perfectly cured: for our method and ways of curing, did greatly differ from the bitter practices of a sort of stragglers, which did thrust them 
Stealing of same & credit, is the only mark such shoot at.  selves into captains bands for principal chirurgeons, and there without either knowledge or skill seduced many with their rude observations, and undiscreet practices, which at random they had gotten, and partly by tradition from their foolish masters, of whom also they had learned bedroulles of errors, with a few experiments passed from hand to hand: & such, as saith Guido, follow one another as it were a sort of Geese or Cranes. I say, like masters, like men: more fitly may they be compared unto certain cart Jades or Packhorsses, that lamely do carry their loads unto the Inn door, but farther they cannot, nor will not go. And thus the blind leadeth the blind, moiling and toiling as though they should roll the stone of Sisyphus. But it may be some of them hereafter will repent their rashness and boldness: as did the Ape, who as it is said, was so proud of his furred Jacket, that he would forsooth needs imitate the Bear, only to spoil the poor Bees of their hive and Honey. But to conclude with such caterpillars which enter into other men's harvest, I am persuaded there be more killed by such wicked practisers, than there are many times slain by the sword of the enemy. And this I have generally noted of them, that seldom have they cured any of their Patients, but they did first pass as it were through a gulf of misery, which is too infallible signs of their wilful ignorance: for no doubt but many of them, as I say, do practise their malignant corrosive, biting or gnawing medicines, to the utter subversion and overthrow of their patients. For, what fevers, what fluxes of blood, what cramps and convulsions do follow, let such as have seen their beastly dealings be judge, specially the poor wounded Soldiers, who abide still the brunt of their sowterly chirurgery. But now (to the praise of almighty God be it spoken) who did so bless our labours, that none of our hurt Patients did at any time complain of pain or grief, by reason of our remedies, but they did take their natural and quiet rest. Being but shot through either their thigh, leg or arm, or other fleshy parts of the body, so that no joints were wounded, or bones greatly fractured withal, but being wounded in the fleshy parts, than our order was thus, to draw a Flamula through the member, being made of fine Lawn or some fine linen cloth, & upon the same we applied of my Digestive, or the like in operation, and sleeped the same in warm Oleum catulorum, and did also convey into the wound of the aforesaid Oil being warmed, and in the Orifices of these wounds placed a short tent armed with the Digestive, etc. and I laid upon the same Emplastrum de Peto, or Hyosciami lutei, and also round about the member the defensive made of Emplastrum Diachalcitheos, with the Succies, as I have set it down in the eight Chapter of this book, and then with convenient roullings and bolstering we accomplished this first preservation. And when the wound was in time perfectly digested, and the contused flesh made up the bullet removed, then forthwith the wound was mundified and made clean with this Mundificative, or the like.  
Mundificative. Franciscus Rasius. Rec. 

Butyri rec. lib. ij.  
ana. lib. ss. 

Cerae citrinae  
Resinae  
Resinae pini.  
Picis Graecae.    
Viridis aeris ℥. ss.   Misce.  
The wound being well cleansed, than we did leave of the use of the Flamula, and used short and easy tents, and did after incarnate and heal it up with this unguent following.  
Rec. 

ana. ℥. vj. 

Gummi Elemni.  
Opopanacis.    
Bdelij. ℥. ss.  
Resinae pini. ℥. j  
Terebinthinae. ℥. iiij.  
ana. ʒ. ij. 

Thuris.  
Masticis.    
ana. ℥. x. 

Cerae citrinae.  
Olei rosarum.     Misce.  
And oftentimes I did iniect into the wounds Oleum Hypericon cum gummis. And if the wound did chance to pass into the body, than I did give them this wound drink, or else some of these drinks following.  

Clowes  Rec. 

Vini albi. lib. viii.  
Aquae come. lib. x.  
Saccari albi lib. ij.  
ana. m. j 

Consolidae utriusque.  
Filicis aquaticae.  
Calendulae.  
Ophioglosson.  
Celidoniae  
Polipodij quircinae.  
Numilariae.  
Lillij convali.  
Sanimundi.  
Diapensiae.  
Veronicae.  
Verbenae.  
Pimpinellae.      
Boil all these in Balneo Mariae five hours, and so let it rest till it be cold, and drink hereof two or three times a day, specially morning and evening, ℥. iiii. at a time, etc. I have with this wound drink, heretofore found great pleasure in the curing of divers persons that have been wounded into the body. And for example, I will here speak only of two or 
Obseruatio.  three which were wounded in the belly, and so conclude, for being over tedious.  
There did come unto me to be cured a Gunner of a ship, which was dangerously wounded in the lower region of his belly, so that a great part of the Zirbus or Omentum, did come out of the wound, and also some of the Intestines or guts proffered themselves to come forth likewise: but the Patient did keep all very close and well till he came unto me: Then I caused him to lie down on a bed upon his back, and after search made, I found the guts safe and not touched of the weapon: then with a strong doubled third I did tie fast the Zirbus, as close unto the wound as possibly well I might, and then a finger breadth, or there abouts, I did cut off that part of the Zirb that hanged out of the wound, and so I cauterized it with a hot iron almost to the knot: All this being done, I put again into the body that part of the Zirb which I had fast tied, and I left the piece of the third hanging out of the wound: which within four or five dai●● after, nature cast forth. The third, as I say, being fast tied, then presently I did take a needle, with a double strong silk third well waxed, wherewith I did thrust through both Mirach and Siphach on the right side of the wound: but on the left side of the wound I did put the needle but through Mirach only, and so tied these three fast together with a very strong knot, and presently I cut off the third. Then, on the same side where I did stitch but Mirach only, which I call the left side, I did there begin again to thrust the needle through both Mirach & Siphach, and also on the right side where I did first begin to force the needle through Mirach and Siphach, there I did thrust that but through Mirach only, and so as before I made another strong knot, and then I cut off again the third, and after the same manner I made the third stitch, etc. All which is according to Weckers, & other learned men's opinions, who say also, that the stitches of the one side must be higher than on the other side. The Author of all good knowledge (I mean Galen the Prince of Physic and chirurgery) alloweth this manner of stitching wounds in the belly: and also it is allowed of all our ancient predecessors successively unto this day. After (as I say) I had thus finished all the stitches that were there requisite and needful to be made, than I did preserve the said wound with my oil of Hypericon, conveying it in with a fine piece of Lawn dipped in the foresaid Oil, and so put into the dependent part of the wound. Then to restrain the bleeding, I placed upon the wound Galens restrictive powder, which I mixed with the whites of Eggs and Hare hairs, and about the wound I used this defensive, which did defend the wound from annoyance of evil accidents.  
Defensive. Clowes. Rec. 

Emplastrum Diachalcitheos. lib. j ss.  
ana. ℥. j 

Succorun semperuivi  
Plantaginis.  
Solani.    
Olei ros. ℥. ij.  
Olei Myrtini. ℥. j ss.  
Ouorum albumin. nu. ij.  
Aceti ros. ℥. j   Misce.  
Thus, with good bolstering and rolling, he rested till the second day. Ye shall understand, that immediately after he did complain of the grudging of an Ague, and being therewith somewhat distempered, presently there was opened a vain, and forthwith a gentle mollifying Clyster also: then shortly after his bleeding and purging he mended again, and by this means his Fever was prevented. Thus in foreshowing of the evils that happened in this cure, you may the easilier shun the like dangers in others. The second day we opened the wound, and we found it very fair, without pain, or any other evil signs or symptoms: then first I fomented or bathed well the wound with my wound drink: which being so done, I put into the wound warmed my oil of Hypericon, with a piece of fine Lawn, as before said, also with pledgets of fine lint I did spread them with unguentum de Peto: and I dipped these also in the warm oil of Hypericon, likewise upon the same pledgets I placed the gum plaster with warm double steuphs steeped in the wound drink, and so I rolled it up according to art: then presently we gave him of the said wound drink ℥. iiii. and between one and two of the clock in the afternoon we gave him ℥. iiii. more, and at night between seven and eight of the clock ℥. iiii. also, and so he did continue till he was cured. Likewise for a time his ordinary drink at meals was Ptisanes and Barley water, and he was moreover adjoined to a thin and cooling diet. And so by this manner and order of dressing twice in the day, that was in the morning and evening, and by his good order of diet, he was within the space of xxi. days made perfect whole, etc.  
Also in Anno 1580. there was one William Mouch a 
There was joined with me in this cure Master Clowe▪ a very expert & skilful Chirurgeon.  servingman remaining about this City of London, who received a wound in his belly, and the Zirb issued out of the wound so broad in compass, that it did very easily cover a great square trencher, which was cured likewise with the order and remedies afore rehearsed.  
Moreover, in Anno 1586. a little girl of the age of ten or twelve years, dwelled with one Master Bracie a Merchant of London, which girl was also wounded in the belly with a knife that she carried in her hand, and in running hastily she sell down upon the same, so that the Zirb did come forth of the wound the compass of a man's hand: she being then in the Country seven miles from London, unto whom I was brought: and presently at my coming I did cut off the part of the Zirb that hanged out of the wound, and then I tied it fast, as before I have said: but you shall understand, I did not use any cauterize unto this girl, neither yet unto the serving▪ 
Note.  man: The reason partly was, for that neither the Patients nor their friends would willingly hear of the hot irons, although it were said to be a safe and sure way: Neither did I find any discommodity for not using of them: which girl was after brought to London, whom I likewise did cure in a very short time: for the which the name of: ODD be praised.  
Now last of all (friendly Reader) I have thought it good for the better understanding of all young practszers of chirurgery, to signify unto them what Zirbus is, & also whereof it is composed: In like manner what Mirach is, and also what Siphach is, each part severally, and of their place or situation within the body of man: and by the knowledge hereof ye shall easily foretell the possibility and success of the cure: but being ignorant herein, we bewray ourselves to the world to be none of the sons of art.  
The Zirb is said by Vigo, and other▪ learned authors, to be a pannicle, compound of two Tunicles, and of divers Arceries and Veins, having also in it a great quantity of fat, so ordained of nature to defend the inward parts from outward cold, and also to comfort them, and to keep them warm, etc.  
Next unto the parts outwardly is Siphach, or Peritonea, and it is a sinewy pannicle, very strong and tough: but without blood, and of complexion cold and dry, and for these causes it cannot receive consolidation: it is contained within the belly, and it doth circumvolve and keep in the entrails very well together, etc.  
Also Mirach is that part which is containing on the outward part of the body, and is composed of the outward skin, called in Latin Cutis. Secondly, of Adipis, or the fat. Thirdly, of Carnious, or fleshy Panicles. And four, of Muscles.  
Here have I very briefly rehearsed the parts contained and containing, from the Zirbus, which is next the intestines, unto the outward parts called Mirach and Siphach, the which I have thus done for the better instruction of all young practisers of chirurgery, whom I wish void of slander and infamy: And I know such cures do commonly happen in the wars both by sea and land: for the cause I have here published this short note or observation for the benefit also of the wounded Soldiers, who oftentimes do perish by means of the rash carelessness and blind practises of many ignorant chirurgeons, which will take upon them, to the discredit of themselves and the art, the thing which passet▪ their knowledge and skill, but only can face it out very boldly, & always their bragging knowledge, beareth the sway with a sort of windshaken reasons, which would set a man's teeth an edge, and trouble any wise men's ears in the hearing.  
Or this.  
Rec. 

ana. ʒ. j  
Baccarum Lauri.  
Aristolochiae rotundae 
Madame Danueil●.   
Prunellae.    
Beat all these to fine powder, and take of Prunellae that groweth in the shade, then take the flesh of fresh water Crevices dried into powder, and of sweet Orrace, ana. ʒ. ss. tie all these together in a dry linen cloth, and seethe them with a handful of Vinca. pervinca. in three quarts of white wine till a quart be consumed. Epithemat the wound, them close the lips of the wound, and cover it with a leaf of red Colewort dipped in the said Wine, and lay upon them large linen clothes dipped also in the same wine: likewise if the wound be deep, siring in the decoction every morning and evening, and proceed in the rest as before. Furthermore, let him drink ℥. i. or two. of this drink every morning, fasting upon it three or four hours from all meat. If the Potion seem too bitter to thee, to the quantity of powders and herbs add to double the quantity of wine: This drink have I proved, & it is wonderfully commended by Noblemen, Gentlemen & soldiers that have served in the wars in France. This Lady for her charitable deed in curing of many wounded soldiers, may be compared unto Artemisia Queen of Halicarnassus, and wife unto Mausolus' King of Caria: she was the first that found out that herb which we call in English Mugwort: the Latin name it after her own name Artemisia, etc.  
Or this.  
Rec. 

ana. m. ij. 

Fol. & Rad. Rubiae tincto.  
Rad. Aristoloch. long. & Rotundae.  
Fol. & Rad. Plantag.  
Fol. & Rad. consolidae maioris & minoris.  
Fol. & Rad. gariophil.  
Fol. & Rad. Centauriae maioris.    
ana. m. j 

Rad. Altheae.  
Summitatum Rubi.  
Summitatum lapathi acuti.  
Tanaceti  
Millefolij.  
Pimpinellae.  
Arthemisiae.  
Summitatum canapis.  
Caulis rubei.  
Fragrariae.    
Thuris albi. ℥. ij.  
Sarcocollae. ℥. j  
Vini albi Bocalia. xv.    
Put all these together in an earthen vessel well nealed or glazed, that half the vessel may remain empty, and let it be close covered, that no air do evaporate, and boil it for three hours with an indifferent fire, and let it be strained, unto the which let there be added Mellis lib. vj. then let them be boiled again unto the cousumption of the fourth part: The quantity hereof is to be given in the morning ℥. iiii. and as much more at night: the wound is to be bathed with the same, laying thereon a Colewort leaf. This excellent wound drink is said also to be singular good for the curing of phistula's. Other hidden virtues it hath which I pass over: which drink was given me by Master Doctor Foster, a worthy Reader of the Surgery Lector in the physicians College, a man for his learning in the art, knowledge and judgement, deserveth of us which profess chirurgery, and are desirous to have knowledge, that if it were in our power, we would erect, in token of his excellency therein, some ancient Monument, or stately Pyramids. It hath been peradventure objected publicly, that the negligence of some chirurgeons frequenting not of his Lectures, doth bewray them to be rather wilfully bend to shroud themselves under the dark wings of ignorance, than desirous of learning and knowledge. In deed it may be, there are some which are neither good to themselves, nor profitable to other: And therefore what availeth it to play excellent Music to those that cannot, or will not hear. But this doth bewray their natural inclination, who refuse to frequent so good and godly an e●ercise, which is both profitable to themselves, and also to our Country and Common wealth. For, chirurgery is a most necessary art, without which man's life cannot long continue, considering so many mishaps that chance to men daily.  
A Balm good for wounds. THis Balm is approved precious in green wounds, and 
B 〈…〉.  healeth them very speedily & effectually, it healeth scabs and weals in the face and hands, and causeth them to be very fair. It is very excellent in wounds of the sinews and joints, it stayeth the mucilage and gleeting water: but if you will still it according to art, you shall first have an excellent water: secondly, a most pure Oil: thirdly, the Balm, which is most excellent in wounds and ulcers of the fundament. The Oil is precious against all aches and gouts: the water also preserveth from venom and pestilence, etc. This Balm was first given unto me by one Master Bactor, which at that time served the Lord of Aburgaveny, unto whom also I did retain. But to say truly, who was the author or inventor of it, certainly I do not know: but as I have heard some say, it is supposed to have been invented by Master john Halle Chirurgeon in Maidstone, whose composition is as followeth.  

ana. m. j  
Rec. Egrimoniae.  
Alchimillae.  
Androsemon.  
Aschiron.  
Betonicae.  
Bifolij.  
Bugullae.  
Prunellae.  
Callendulae.  
Caprifolij.  
Consolidae ma.  
Cruciatae.  
Hypericonis.  
jaceae herbae.  
Lavendulae.  
Meliloti.  
Millefolij.  
Numulariae.  
Origani.  
Perfoliatae.  
Pilocellae.  
Plantaginis.  
Quinque-nerui.  
Quinque-folij.  
Roris marini.  
Veronicae.  
Violae Nigrae.  
Violae luteae.  
Violae matronalis.   
Let these be gathered each one in his time and kind, and let them be stamped, and then put into sweet oil Olive. So that you may get herbs from time to time, you may in the end have a gallon of Oil to the quantity of herbs, then let it stand together the space of one month in a pot well nealed and close covered, bury it in horse dung, and in the mean season get these Gums following.  

ana. ℥. j  
Rec. Gum amoniaci.  
Galbani.  
Bdellij.  
Masticis.  
Mirrhae.  
Olibani.  
Opoponacis.  
Sarcocollae.  
Sagapeni.  
Storacis calamitae.  
Thuris.   

ana. ℥. j ss.  
Gariophilorum.  
Maceris.  
Nucis muscatae.  
Cinamomi.   
Powder them that are to be powdered, and dissolve the Gums in good white wine, than set the herbs to the fire in a fair brazen vessel to boil with the Oil, putting thereto lib. iiii. of good wine Muscadel, of Vermium terestrium well washed in white wine and mundified from the earth lib. iii. Let them boil thus together, stirring it diligently with a slice at a soft fire till the wine and juice be wasted, and that the Oil have a fair green colour of the herbs: then let it be strongly strained, and put thereto your Gums and other things together, with lib. iiii. of odoriferus wine, that is, Muscadel or Malmsey, then add thereto Terebinthinae Venetiae. lib. j Let these boil again at a gentle fire till the wine be consumed, then take it of and strain it again, and so reserve it to your use. This Balm, I suppose, is not inferior to any Balm that I know, be it Indian Balm or other: the virtues, I say, will praise itself. Wherefore it is needles to use any farther speeches herein: only this one note or observation amongst many other I will declare. It happened 
Obseruatio.  in Anno 1575. a Barber Surgeon, whose name is called William Clerk, dwelling in Southwark, he having in his house a lewd servant of the age of xvii. or xviii. years, he wanting the grace of God, did in his masters absence (by the enticement of the devil) cut his own throat with a knife, so that part of his driuke did, for the space of six or seven days, flow out of the wound. I was presently called to the cure of him, and after I had stitched the wound, I did then apply thereon warmed this foresaid Balm, and stayed his bleeding with Galens powder: and so for that present time I ended, with convenient roulling and boulstring. But in such a case there be also required the help of the hand, to keep close & fast the medicines, and all helps will be little enough, as I have well approved: then after I made in a readiness to use with the Balm this unguentum consolidatiuum, and also my unguentum de Peto.  

unguentum consolidati●●.  Rec. 

ana. ℥. j 

Gummi arab.  
Dragag. dissolute. in aceto.  
Sarcoc. ʒ. ij.    
ana. ʒ. j 

Sandaracae.  
Hipocistid.    
ana. ʒ. j ss. 

Mastic.  
Thuris.    
Tutiae praeparatae. ʒ. j ss.  
Olei mastic. ℥. iij.  
Cerae. q. s..   Misce, & fiat unguentum secundum artem  
And upon the same the gum plaster, and about the parts ●eere unto the wound I used this Defensive.  

Defensive.  Rec. 

unguentum de bolo. ℥. vj.  
Omnium sandal. ʒ. j ss.  
ana. ʒ. ij. 

Pulu. mirtillorum  
& Ros.    
ana. ℥. i. ss. 

Olei Ros. &  
Mirtini.    
Aceti Ros. ℥. ij.  
Albuminis ovorum nu. j   Misce.  
Thus with this Balm and these remedies he was perfectly made whole by me, and so he returned home to his friends again, etc.  
Or this.  

Balm. Am. Pa●●ie.  Rec. 

Terebinthinae venetae. lib. ij.  
Gummi Elemni. ℥. iiij.  
ana. ℥. j 

Boli armeniaci.  
Sanguinis Dragonis    
Olei Hypericonis cum gummis. ℥. iij.  
Aquae vitae. ℥. ij.  
ana. ʒ. j 

Irios.  
Aloes.  
Masticis.  
Myrrhae.     Misce, secundum artem.  
Or this.  

Balm. A●de●●a●●●.  Rec. 

ana. ℥. ij. 

Myrrhae.  
Aloes.  
Spicae.  
Sanguinis Draconis.  
Thuris.  
Mummiae.  
Opopo.  
Amoniaci.  
Carpo-Bal●am.  
sarcocol.  
Croci orient.  
Mastic.  
Gummi arabi.  
Stirac. call.    
Laudani. ℥. j ss.  
Resinae abietinae. lib. j  
Terebinthinae come. lib. viii.  
Vini generosi. lib. ss.   Distillantur ac liquore, ponatur Muscigra. xv. & fiat.  
Or this.  

Balm.  Rec. 

Terebinthinae. lib. j  
Olibani. ℥. ij.  
ana. ℥. j 

Aloes cicatri●.  
Gariophilorum.  
Galing.  
Cinamomi.  
Croci.  
Nucis Muscatis.  
Cucubarum.    
Gummi arabici. ℥. ij.  
Lignum aloes. ℥. j   Mix these together, and then put all into a stillatory, and still it according to art, etc.  
Or this.  
Balm. Rec. 

Olei come. lib. iiij.  
Terebinthinae. lib. ij.  
Aquae vitae. lib. iiij.  
Viniodoriferi. lib. ij.  
Viridis aeris in pull. ℥. ij.    
Boil all these according to art, and last put in your Viridis aeris. This was a common Balm, and few better known amongst some old practisers in time past.  
Or this.  
Rec. 

Olei Terebinthinae lib. j  
Vitellorum ovorum ℥. xiv.  
ana. ℥. iij. 

Resinae pini. 
〈…〉   
Myrrhae.    
Gummi hederae. ℥. ij.    
Let the yolks of Eggs be first fodden hard, then mix all well together in a stillatory, and with a soft fire let it be drawn, and there will come first a water, and last the Oil, the which ye shall reserve, for it healeth wounds very speedily. This Oil was greatly in use by my Master, master George Keble, but whether he were the inventor of it, or not, I do not certainly know, etc.  
A plaster very good for green wounds, practised of late in the Low Countries by a worshipful Gentleman, called master jerom Farmer, a great favourer and lover of chirurgery.  
Paracelsus Plaster. Rec. 

Rad. consolidae maioris. lib. j  
Fol. Ophioglossi. lib. j ss.  
Vermium terrestr. lib. ss.  
Aristolochiae rotundae recenc. ℥. iiij.    
All these being green, beat them well, and then add to Vini albi, so much in quantity as will cover all these herbs, seethe them in a double vessel well nealed ten hours: these being then strained and taken out, put in new herbs and roots, and boil it as aforesaid, and then put to it Butiris recent. q. s. All these being mixed together, let it be boiled in a double vessel, which being effectually boiled, then strain it, and after set it in the Sun, and reserve it to your use: then take of the foresaid Oil and virgin Wax of each a pound and a half.  

Lithargiri auri. lib. j  
Plumbi ustiloti, lib. ss.  
Terebinthinae. ℥. iiij.  
ana. ℥. ss. 

Amoniaci.  
Bdellij.    
ana. ʒ. vj. 

Galbani.  
Opoponacis     
Infuse these in Vinegar, and so make a plaster according to art. This plaster was given me for a secret, by this worshipful Gentleman Master jerom Farmer, when I was at Arnam: at that time when Nemegam was besieged, he desired me to put it in practice, at which time divers of our men were hurt, not only with shot, but with other weapons. It happened that a Horseman was wounded in his thigh by the enemy, being a Pikeman: the wound was about seven inches long, entering in at the inside of his right thigh, and so passed upwards, and by good hap it rested on Os pubis, otherwise he had been slain, nevertheless he was grown very faint and weak with extreme bleeding. So happily having things about me, I stayed his bleeding, which was good for him, and no hurt unto me, as it fell out. At the next dressing I applied 
Note.  a Defensive about the wound, and then I warmed well some of my oil of Hypericon cum gummis published in my book De Morbo Gallico, the which I injected into the bottom of the wound with a siring: then I made a very short rent armed with my unguentum de Peto, and upon the same the foresaid plaster. Thus I dressed him five days, and the sixth day I left out the tent clean, and within xiiii. days he was whole and ready to serve in the field again.  
Or this.  

Emplastrum sticticum Paracelst.  Rec. 

Olei Olivarum. ℥. uj  
Cerae ℥. j quibus liquefactis   add 

Lithargirij. ℥. ij.  
ana. ℥. ss. 

Amoniaci.  
Bdellij.    
ana. ʒ. ij. 

Galbani.  
Opoponacis.    
ana. ʒ ij. 

Aristolochiae rotund.  
Calaminaris  
Myrrhae  
Thuris    
ana. ℥. j 

Olei lautini tantundem.  
Terebinthinae putae.      
Dissolve the Gums in Vinegar xxiiii. hours, and then boil it till the Vinegar be evaporate, then let it be strongly strained, and put in these Gums by little and little, always stirring it till the Gums be incorporate with the rest of the powders being finely powdered and seared: and last of all put in your Terebinthine, and make hereof a plaster according to art. This is the order which I use in the making of it, etc.  
Emplastrum Resoluendum. Rec. 

Amoniaci lib. j 
I. B.   
Galbani lib. ss.  
Cerae albae. q. s.   Misce.  
Emplastrum consolidatiuum & desiccatiuum, to be used in green wounds in stead of stitching, often proved. Rec. 

ana. ʒ. iiij. 

Gummi Drag.  
Sang. Drag.    
ana. ʒ. ij. 

Olibani.  
Mastic. 
I. B.   
Myrrhae.    
Boli armeni. ℥. j ss.  
Farinae volat ʒ. ss.   Make all these in very fine powder cum ovorum albuminibus, q. s. Misce.  
A good plaster to be used for dry stitches of wounds in the face, etc. Rec. 

ana. ℥. iiij. 

Resinae.  
Resinae pini.  
Picis nig. 
I. B.     
ana. ℥. j 

Mastic.  
Myrrhae  
Thuris  
Olibani.  
Aloes hepat.  
Terebinthinae    
Gummi Dragagant. ʒ. vj.   Misce, & fiat Emplastrum.  
Master Rasius plaster good for to keep open any issue, the which he gave me for one of his serrets, and I have seen him use it with great profice, and I have found pleasure in it myself.  

Franciscus Rasius, Chirurgeon to the French King.  Rec. 

Cerae albae lib. ss.  
Viridis aeris. ℥. iij.  
Mercur. Sublimat. ℥. j   Misce.  
A Cataplasm for Inflammations. Rec. 

ana. quart. j 

Succorum semperuiu●. 
Calmetheus.   
Plantaginis.  
Solani.  
Aquae lenticulae.    
Aceto. ℥. j  
ana. ℥. ●. ss. 

Oleorun Ros. vel.  
Nympheae.    
Far, hordei. ℥. ij.   Fiat.  
A Cataplasm for bruised wounds. Rec. 

Rad. altheae lib. ss.  
ana. m. j Fol. Mal. & Viol.    
Terantur, coquantur, & exprimantur, deinde add Butyri, & Olei come. ana. ℥. iij. Tria ovorum vitellorum, croci modicum, Far. triticeae & Hord. q. s. Fiat Cataplasma.  
A Cataplasm very comfortable, and also it appeaseth pains. Rec. 

ana. ℥. iij. 

Far. fabarum. 
Valeniola.   
Hord.  
Lentium, &  
Lupinorum.    
ana. ℥. ij. 

Far. semin. lini,  
& Fenugrae.    
Farinae orobi. ℥. j  
Croci. ʒ. two.    
Bulliant Farinae cum Aceto & mellis parvo. Fiat Cataplasma.  
Or this Cataplasm doth appease pains and cease Jnflamations. Rec. 

ana. m. two. 

Fol. maluarum.  
Violarum.    
ana. m. i. 

Flo. Chamomillae  
Fol. ros.     Boil all these in Milk till they be soft and tender, then beat them in a mortar, and add thereto 

ana. ℥. i. ss. 

unguentum rosarum  
unguentum populion.    
Vitellorum ovorum. nu. ij.  
Farinae Hordei. ℥. ij.  
ana. ℥. ss. 

Mucilag. seminis psyllij,  
& Rad. altheae.     Misce, & fiat Cataplasma.  

Master Gal● powder.  Master Gales powder for restraining of great fluxes of blood. Rec. 

ana. ℥. ij. 

Alluminis succarini.  
Thuris.  
Arsenici.    
Calcis vivi. ℥. vj.    
Make all these in fine powder, and put unto them a pint of strong Vinegar, and boil them on the fire, stirring it continually till the Vinegar be consumed, then set it in the Sun, or in an Oven, till it be perfectly dried, that you may make it in very fine powder, and when you will use it, take of this powder ℥. iii. of Boli Armoniaci ℥ iij. of pulvis Alcumisticus ℥. j Misce. And when you will use it, take of the whites of Eggs. q. s.  

Pul. Galen●.  Galens Restrictive powder. Rec. 

Olibani ℥. two.  
Aloes hepaticae. ℥. i.  
ana. q. s. 

Pilorum leporis terrefact.  
& ovorum albumin.      
Or this.  
Pul Caimatheus. Rec. 

Boli armeniaci. ʒ. vi.  
Terrae sigillatae. ℥. two.  
Farinae volatilis. ℥. iii.  
ana. ℥. iiii. 

Gypsi.  
Calcis viu.      
And when you will use these powders, mire therewich of Albuminis ovorum q. s. Misce.  
A powder to rebate spongeous flesh, very profitable. Rec. 

Mercurij praecipitat. ℥. ij.  
Cinabrii ʒ. ss.  
Mastic. ʒ. two.   Misce, fiat pulvis subtiliss.  
A very good drink for the cure of Fistulaes', commended by Tagaltius. Rec. three parts of Osmunde, two parts of Gentian, and one 
Tagaltius. A drink for a Fistula.  part of Centaury, boil these together in white wine & strain it, and thereof give the patiented every morning a draft: if you put hereto a little Guaicam, and let it stand therein a space and then boil it, it is the better, etc.  
A very good Mundificative.  
Mundificatiuum. Rec. 

Mel ros. ℥. two.  
Terebinthinae. ℥. iii.  
ana. ℥. i. ss. 

Suc. Apii &  
Plantag.     Let these boil together a little, and then add thereunto, 

ana. ℥. ss. 

Farinae hord. &  
Fabarum.    
Sarcocoilae. ʒ. i. ss.  
Croci. ʒ. ss.   Misce.  
A good injection for old and callous Fistulaes'. Tagaltius.  
Rec. 

unguentum Aegiptiacum. ℥. ss.  
Mer. sublimat. ʒ. ss.  
Lixivii. ℥. iiii.  
Aquae ros. ℥. two.  
Arsenici. ℈. i.  
Aquae plantaginis. ℥. iii.    
Let all these be boiled together to the consumption of the third part, and reserve it to your use.  
A cataplasma very good for Gangraen. Parreus.  
Rec. 

ana. lib. ss. 

Far. fab.  
Hord.  
Orob.  
Lupin.    
ana. ℥. iiij. 

Salis come.  
Mel. ros.    
ana. ℥. ij. ss. 

Succi absinthij  
Marrub.    
ana. ℥. two. 

Aloes  
Myrrhae  
& Aquae vitae    
oxymel sympl. q. s.   Misce, & fiat cataplasma.  
No man needeth to doubt of the goodness of this Cataplasma, etc.  
An unguent good for burnings with gunpowder. Rec. the yellow moss that groweth upon the bark of the Ash tree and branches two handfuls, of sheeps suet lib. ss. melt the sheeps suet and the moss together very gently, and then strain it, etc. and use it warm with a feather.  
A maturative plaster. 
Master Keble.  Rec. 

Olei liliorum ℥ vi  
Cerae lib. i.  
Resinae lib. ss.  
Resinae Pini ℥ four  
Picis albae ℥ two.  
Galbani ℥. i. ss.  
Gum amoniaci. ℥ ii  
Croci. ʒ i   Misce, & fiat Emplastrum.  
A very good Lixivium to stay gangrene coming of cold, by lying in the snow, and the like occasions, whereby the vital spirits are prohibited to come unto the mortified part: which Lixivium was greatly commended by my master, master George Keble, and I have many times approved it profitable. 
Master Keble.   
Rec. 

Lixivij. lib. viii.  
Lupinorum contusorun. ℥. iij.  
Orobi. ℥. j ss.  
Salis. come. m. j ss.  
ana. m. j 

Absinthij.  
Centauri.  
Marrubij.    
Flor. camomile. m. j ss.  
Aquae vitae. lib. j    
Boil all these together, till one part be consumed, and so let it rest all together, and reserve it to your use, etc.  
Emplastrum epispatices ad omnes iuncturarum dolores ex frigiditate.  
Rec. Cerae veteris, colophoniae, resinae pini. ana. lib. j 
Odo●phus O 〈…〉.  calcis viu. Alluminis plumati, Arsenici. ana. ℥. j  
Relent the Wax and Rosin with a small quantity of Oil, than straw in your powders, being finely powdered, and mix with them Aceti fortis, q. s. boil all together at a gentle fire to the form of a plaster.  
unguentum Incarnatiuum. 
Vigo.  Rec. 

Terebinthinae. ʒ ii  
ana. ℥. ss. 

Sirupi Ros.  
Mel. Ros.    
Succi plantaginis. ʒ. vi.  
Croci. q. s.   Misce: & fiat unguentum secundum artem.  
unguentum Incarnatiuum. Rec. 

Cerae liquefact. ℥ .v. 
I. B.   
Olei come. lib. ss.  
Resinae. ℥. iiii.  
Mellis. ℥. i. ss.  
Tereb. ℥. iiii.  
ana. ʒ. two. 

Mastic.  
Olibani.  
Sarcoc.  
Myrrhae.  
Aloes.  
Croci.     Misce: & fiat unguentum secundum artem.  

josephus Quirsitanus.  Rec. The mucilage of the seed of Fenigreeke ℥. two. the juice of Hound's tongue, Persicaria, and the great comfery, ana. ℥. i. ss. Oil of frankincense and Myrrh. ana. ʒ. three Oil of Hypericon simple ℥. two. Terebinthine washed in white Wine ℥. two. let them stand in the Sun, 〈◊〉 at a soft fire, until they wax thick, etc.  
unguentum Incarnatiuum. 
Master Keble.  Rec. 

ana. ℥. iiii. 

Resini.  
Cerae.    
Terebinthinae. ℥. two.  
Olei come. ℥. viii.  
Mellis. ℥. iii.  
Vitellorum ovorum nu. iiii.   Misc.  
A good unguent for inflammations. Rec. 

ana. ℥. i. ss.  
Vnguenti populeonis.  
Vnguenti Ros.   Being well washed in Rose water, and Plantain water, q. s. adding thereto 

Olei Ros. ℥. iiii.  
Cerussae. ℥. two.  
Cerae albae. q. s.  
Terae sigillatae. ℥. i. ss.  
Camphyrae. ℈. two.  
Opii. ℈. i.   Misce & fiat unguentum.  
An unguent very good for burning with Gunpowder, or scalding with water, and it healeth without ulceration and pain, and drieth very well, and it bringeth again the beauty of the skin, and this must be applied to the affected parts morning and evening, etc.  
Rec. 

Seui secundae decoctionis Sutorii. lib. i. ss.  
Succi Ophyogllossi. lib. ss.    
Coquantur simul in Balneo, ad consumptionem succi: postea add Camphyrae. ℥. ss.  
Misceantur in mortario plumbeo.  
The use. After that you have warmed of this, with feathers anoint the place burnt, or scalded, keeping unto the place affected warm coals, until the pain be ceased, which will be after three or four times warming. Take great heed that you break not any of the blisters which are wont to arise, for that induceth pain.  
unguentum neruorum, commonly called Nerve oil. This unguent I have seen many times used with great profit unto the patients: and for that I never read it in any English Book, I have thought it not amiss to publish now the same. Peradventure some scorners will say it is a medicine for a Horse, nevertheless, master Ambrose Pary is not ashamed to set it down in his book for a medicine profitable for man's body.  
unguentum Neruale. Rec. 

ana. ℥. iii. 

Eupatorii.  
Camomillae.  
Betonicae.  
Saluiae.  
Menthae.  
Hederae terestris.  
Abrotani.  
Arthemisiae.  
Absinthii.  
Nasturtii.  
Maluarum.  
Origani.  
Pulegii.  
Auriculae muris.  
Solani.  
Camaepitheos'.  
Vrticae.  
Serpentariae.  
Fol. lauri.  
Ebuli.  
Costi.  
Enulae camp.  
Rubiae maioris.  
Herbae paralisis.  
Ruthae.  
Raphani.  
Sambucae.  
Aristolochiaelongae.  
Apii.  
Rad. altheae.  
Ciclaminis.  
Calendulae.  
Caulis rub.  
Calaminthae.  
Centaurii minoris  
Vitis albae.  
Hypericon.    
Butiri maialis. lib. xii.  
Cerae virgineae. lib. i.  
Seui arietis. ℥. xii.  
Axungiae gallinae. ℥. vi.  
Axungiae anseris. ℥. iii.  
Olibani. ℥. xii.  
Olei laurini. lib. viii.   Fiat unguentum Neruale.  
I have known certain practisers at Seas to use this unguent, with Farinae tritic. and Vini albi. ana. q. s. and so boiled them together, and made hereof a cataplasm for painful swellings about wounds, etc.  
A water for sore eyes. Rec. 

ana. ℥. i.  
aquae verbenae.  
Betonice.  
Ruthae.  
Rosarum rub.  
Eufrag.  
Celidoniae.  
Plantag.  
Calendulae.  
Feniculi.   Misce.  
Aqua Viridis aeris, for Ulcers in Virga. Rec. 

Aquae Plwialis, lib. viii.  
Saccari candi. lib. i.  
Viridis aeris. ℥. iiii.   Boil these together, and in the cooling put in the Viriciis aeris. Fiat.  
Or this.  
Rec. 

Aquae Plantag. ℥. iiii.  
Aquae Ros. ℥. two.  
Aquae Hord. ℥. iii.  
Syr. Ros. ℥. two.  
Collirium album, sine opio. ʒ. i. ss.   Misce.  
unguentum Apij, which in times past was had in great use by the ancient chirurgeons of this City of London, & it doth mundify very well, as myself have had sufficient trial.  
unguentum Apij. Rec. 

ana. m. i. 

Foliorum Plant.  
Artemisiae.  
Absinthii.  
Quinqueneruiae.  
Sanaemundae.  
Periclymeni.  
Consolidae minoris.  
& Melliloti.    
ana. m. ss. 

Foliorum Hyosciami albij.  
Violarum.  
Crassulae maioris.—    
ana. pugillum. i. 

Bardanae.  
Trifolij.      
Then take of Apij the weight of all the rest: juice them all. Then take of Mellis come. as much as of all the juice: mix all together, and then take of Farinae triticeae. lib. two. Terebintinae. ℥. v. Mix all these together, and set it on the fire, and boil it to the form of an unguent, etc.  
A mundificative. Rec. 

Mellis. lib. two.  
Succi Saniculae. ℥. viii.  
Viridis aeris. ℥. ss.    
Boil these to the form or body of your unguentum egyptiacum. Fiat.  
unguentum Populeon. 
unguentum populeon 〈…〉 & Weeken.  Rec. 

Oculorum populi arboris recentium collectorum. lib. j ss.  
Axungia porcinae praeparatae. lib. iiij.    
The People buds must be bruised and mixed with your Axungiae, until your other herbs may be prepared, then add to it 

ana. ℥. iij. 

Fol. papaveris agrestis.  
Fol. Mandragorae.  
Fol. Hyosciami.  
Solani.  
Vermicularis, aut  
Crassulae.  
Lactucae.  
Semperuivi.  
Bardanae.  
Portulacae.  
Florum violarum.  
Vmbilici veneris.    
Summiratum pruni tenerarum. ℥. iij.    
These herbs must he mixed and tempered with Axungia, as aforesaid, then add thereto Vini optimi quantum satis est.  
Boil these to the consumption of the Wine, then strain them, and make an unguent according to art. It is very good against extreme and raging heats in Fevers: it provoketh sleep, the temples being therewith anointed, etc.  
unguentum mundificatiuum magistrale. 
Weckerus.  Rec. 

Mellis rosati colati. ℥. i. ss.  
Terebinthinae clarae. ℥. iij.  
ana. ʒ. ss. 

Succi apij  
Succi prassij.    
Succi absinthij. ʒ. two.   Simul coquantur deinde addantur. 

Farinae hordei, fabarum. ana. ʒ. vj.  
ana. ℥. iij. 

Farinae lupinorum.  
Orobi.    
ana. ʒ. i. ss. 

Sarcocollae  
Myrrhae     Reduc. in pulverem, & fac unguentum.  
A very good mollifying unguent.  
unguentum mollificatiwm. Rec. 

ana. ℥. ij. 

Axungiae humanae  
Anseris  
Gallinae.  
Medullae ceruinae    
Terebinthinae lotae in aqua vitae. ℥. j  
Cerae q. s.   Misce, & fiat unguentum secundum artem.  
A sparadrap plaster. 
Master Keble.   
Rec. 

Olei. come. lib. ij.  
ana. ℥. xj. 

Plumbi albi, &  
Plumbi rubri    
Cerae ℥. vj.    
Boil all these together till it wax black, and in the cooling put in 

ana. ℥. j  
Adipis anatis &  
Caponis. Misce.    
unguentum Sanatiwm. 
Master Keble.   
Rec. 

Lapidis caliminaris praeparati ℥. iiij.  
Cerusae lotae in aqua ros. ℥. j  
Lithargiri auri loti. ℥. ij.  
Olei ros. lib. ss.  
Seui ovini ℥. ij.  
Terebinthinae lotae in aqua ros. ℥. ij. ss.  
Cerae citr. q. s.  
Camphorae. ʒ. j   Misce, & fiat unguentum secundum artem.  
A mollifying Cerecloth: This was given me for a secret, but I never proved it.  
Rec. 

Cerae ℥. viii.  
Olei pedis vaccini ℥. iij.  
Resinae ℥. v.    
Relent these, and strain it, and so dip clothes in it, and reserve it to your use.  
A powder which I have approved to be good to 
A good powder to take away spongious flesh.  remove and take away superfluous or spongeous flesh.  
Rec. 

ana. ℥. ●j. 

Alluminis Zaccarini  
Vitrioli albi.    
Aceti rubri. lib. ss.    
Let this be calcined together in a great crewsible till u come to perfection, and that the vinegar be consumed, then let it be finely brought to powder, and so reserve it to your use.  
Or this.  
pulvis sine pari. 
Perished pair. johannes A▪ dew.   
Rec. 

ana. ℥. ij. 

Viridis aeris  
Auri pigmenti    
Vitrioli combusti ℥. iiij.  
Alluminis zaccarini combusti ℥. viii.   Et fiat pulvis.  
Emplastrum flos unguentorum. 
Emplastrum flos unguerdoned.   
Rec. 

ana. ℥▪ viii. 

Resinae  
Resinae pini    
ana. ℥. iiij. 

Cerae albae  
Olibani    
ana. ℥. j 

Masticis  
& Myrrhae    
Adipis ceruini ℥. iiij.  
Camphor. ʒ. ij.  
Vini albi lib. iiij.  
Terebinthinae ℥. iij.   Misce, & fiat emplastrum secundum artem,  
This plaster I have approved to be excellent for wounds made with gun-shot, and I would advertise all young practisers of chirurgery never to be without it: for it hath many excellent virtues, which I will not here nominate at this time, because of being too tedious, etc.  
A good mundifying medicine called Lipsius, used by the chirurgeons in the Hospitali of S. Bartholomew, most specially for Ulcers in the mouth. 
●●psium.   
Rec. 

Mellis come.  
Vitrioli albi.  
Succi caprifolij lib. iiij.    
First boil your juice and your Mel together till it come to the thickness of Honey, and last put in your Vitriol, and boil it a little, and so reserve it to your use.  
unguentum in frigidans Galeni. 
unguentum in frigidans Galeni.   
Rec. 

Olei ros. ℥. iij.  
Cerae albae. ℥. ss.    
Melt these together, and being well washed with Rose-vinegar and Rose-water, reserve it to your use.  
unguentum Resinae, which was also had in great price by the old practitioners. 
unguentum resinae, which doth mund▪ fi●▪ incarne▪ and stayeth the mucilage or gleeting humour, specially about the 〈…〉.   
Rec. 

Resinae ℥. v.  
Mellis lib. j  
Terebinthinae ℥ viii  
ana. ℥. i. 

Myrrhae &  
Sarcocollae.      
The mucilage of Fenigreke, and the mucilage of Lins●ede▪ being made with white wine of each ℥. i. Misce, & fiat unguentum secundum artem.  
A Cataplasm for a windy tumour or swelling.  
Rec. 

ana. m. j 

Flo. Camo●illae  
Melliloti  
Anethi  
Ros. rub. pul▪    
ana. m. ss. 

Foliorum mal. &  
Absynthij.    
Furfuris. m. i.   Boil all these together in Lixivio & vino rub. then add thereto. 

ana. q. s. 

Medullae panis, &  
Farinae fab.    
ana. ℥. ij. 

Olei ros. &  
Myrtini     Misce.  
A lineament for windy tumours.  
Re. 

ana. ℥. i●. 

Oleorun. Camomile.  
Anethi.  
Lauri.    
ana. q. s. 

Cerae albae.  
Aquae vitae.      
A present remedy to take away Warts.  
Rec. 

ana. q. s.  
Aceti fort.  
Thymi.  
Hisopi.   Stamp them in the vinegar, and strongly strained, make thereof a lixivium, with the ashes of willows, and often wash ●he Warts, etc.  
A common Powder to take away Warts that grow about Praputium.  
Rec. 

ana. ℥. ss. 

Auri pigmenti.  
Sulphuris vivi.  
Calcis vivi.    
Sabini. ʒ. j   Misce & fiat pul. secundum artem.  
A very good spiced plaster, which my master, M. Keble often used, and he did therewith much good for pains and aches. 
〈…〉   
Rec. 

Cerae. ℥. xii.  
Resinae. ℥. viii.  
Picis. ℥. i. ss.  
Olibani. ℥. iiii.  
Resinae pini. lib. i.  
Adipis ceruini. ℥. two.  
Croci. ʒ. two.  
ana. ℥. ss. 

Mac●ris.  
Garsophilorum.    
Vini rub. lib. two.   Misce, & fiat Emplastrum.  
A good medicine for a pin and a web in the eyes.  
Re. 

ana. q. s.  
Succorun Saluiae rub.  
Feniculi rub. &  
Trifolii.  
Mellis come. &  
Ouorum album.   Let all these be well beaten together, and reserve it to your use.  
Or this.  
Rec. 

ana. q. s.  
Mellis come.  
Succi Semperuivi.  
Aquae Ros.   Then take ten or twelve strains of new laid eggs, of a white Hen as near as you can, then let them be well beaten in a sweet mortar, till they be united in manner of an ointment, then let all these be beaten together, and a little relented, and reserve it to your use: and sometimes you may add to it Aquae celidoniae & eufragiae. q. s. This receipt was given me for a secret, of one I suppose to be a good oculist, and some trial I have had of late of these foresaid remedies, etc.  
The white Mucilage plaster.  
Rec. 

Cerussae lib. v.  
Lithargiri auri lib. ij.  
Olei come. lib. viii.  
Rad. altheae being cleansed and picked from the pith. m. iiij.  
ana. m. j 

Sem. lini &  
Foenigraeci contus.    
Aquae q. s.   And make hereof a Mucilage: then take of it lib. iij. Misce, & fiat Emplastrum secundum artem.  
An unguent good for the Hemeroyds. 
Master Keble.   
Rec. 

Vnguenti ros. ℥. ij.  
Vnguenti populeon come. ℥. j ss.  
Vitellum ovi. i  
Opij ʒ. ss.   Misce.  
A very good resolutive Cerot.  
Rec. 

ana. ℥. ij. ss. 

Olei Liliacei.  
Amigdal. dull.  
Medul. cruris cerui.    
ana. ℥. j 

Mucilag. sem. lini  
Foenigraeci &  
Altheae.—    
Cerae q. s.    
A melilot plaster greatly used of the common chirurgeons.  
Rec. 

Resinae lib. viii.  
Cerae lib. ij.  
Seui ovini lib. ss.  
Succi meliloti lib. viii.  
Vini rub. lib. ij.   Misce, & fiat emplastrum.  
Master Francis Rasius Mundificative, the which he used here when he had the Earl of Sussex in cure, and he did swear unto me, it was his Father's practice afore his time. 
Mundificatiuum. Franciscus Rasius.   
Rec. 

Butyri rec. lib. ij.  
ana. lib. ss. 

Cerae citrinae  
Resinae  
Resinae pini  
Picis Graec.    
Viridis aeris. ℥. ss.   Misce.  
A plaster against inveterat ulcers. 
Franciscus Rasius.   
Rec. 

Emplastride Cerussa optimè cocti. lib. ss.  
Mercurij extincti in aova vitae ℥. iij.   Fiat Emplastrum bonae constitutionis. secun. art.  
A Lineament to cease pain, and cause sleep, being applied unto the temples.  
Rec. 

Opij extracti cum aceto ros. ℥. j  
Sem Hyosciami albi ʒ. vj.  
Nucis musc. ʒ. v. pul subtiliss.  
Vnguenti ros. ℥. ij. ss.  
Olei nucis musc. gut.   Fiat Linimentum.  
A most precious Oil against all inflammations, and to 
I. B.  cause sleep also, and it will cease the pains of the Gout in any part of the body.  
Rec. 

Olei. come. lib. viii.  
Vini albi. lib. ij.  
Summitatum Hyosciami &  
Sem. eius virid. lib. iij. ss.  
ana. ℥. iiij. 

Vermium terrestr.  
Gariophill.    
Croci. ℥. j  
Opii. ℥. ss.    
Let these be bruised and mixed together, and let it stand s● in the Sun twelve days, then boil them to the consumption of the Wine and the juice: then strain it, and keep it to your use. But if you will make of this Oil a lineament for wounds in the joints, and to cease pain, and for bruises, or any sharp and biting pain of virulent ulcers, than  
Rec. 

Olei Praedic. ℥. iiii.  
Olei Hyperic. ℥. i.  
Olei Lumbricorum. ℥. ss.  
Gum. Elemni. ʒ. vi.  
Terebinthinae lotae in lact mulieris. ʒ. seven.   Misce.  
Mix all these together, and make it in form of a lineament: and if you will have it more thicker to the form of an unguent, add thereto 

ana. ʒ. iii. 

Resinae pini.  
Resinae.    
Vnguenti Ros. ʒ. vi.  
Cerae albae. ℥. ss.   Misce.  
A Plaster good to resolve knobs, and hard swellings.  
Rec. 

ana. lib. i. 

Terebinthinae puriss. 
P●●n●●.   
Aphronitri.    
ana. ℥. iiii. 

Galbani.  
Propolis.    
Guttarum ammoniaci. ℥. viii.  
Lixivij. q. s.   Fiat Emplastrum secundum artem.  
A Plaster for the hard swellings in women's Breasts.  
Rec. 

Mellis despumati. ℥. ix.  
Olei rosarum. ℥. vi.  
Cerae citrinae. ℥. iiii.   Misce, secundum artem.  
An Oil for Convulsions, proceeding through wounds in the nerves, or otherwise. 
I. B.   
Rec. 

Olei come. lib. iiii.  
Olei terebin. lib. i. ss.  
Saluiae. m. two.  
Florum Rorismarini. m. i. ss.  
Vermium terrestrium preparat. ℥. iiii▪  
Euphorbij. ʒ. iii.  
Gum. Hederae. ℥. iiii.  
Radic. Brioniae. ℥. i.  
Iridis. ℥. ss.  
Olibani. ℥. iii. ss.  
ana. ʒ. ij. 

Masticis.  
Cinamomi.    
Cariophilorum.  
Croci. ʒ. i.  
Vini maluatici. lib. two.    
Bruise the Sage with Rosemary flowers, and powder the rest that are to be powdered: mix all together, and put them into an earthen vessel well glazed, being close stopped, and set them to macerate for ten days in Horse dung, or in Balneo, according to art, then boil them to the consumption of the Wine, etc.  
unguentum pro Spasmo. 
unguentum pro Spasmo.   
Rec. 

ana. ℥. i. 

Axungiae cerui.  
Taxi.  
Vrsi.    
Olei Laurini. ℥. i. ss.  
ana. ℥. ss. 

Olei vulpini.  
Castorei.  
Therebinthinae.  
juniperi.  
Lumbricorum.    
ana. ℥. two. 

Unguent. Agrippoe,  
& Dialtheae.      
The Terebinthine wash in the water of lilies, then take Euphorbij. ℈. i. Cum modico cerae fiat unguentum.  
These Oils following are also very good for a convulsion coming by repletion and fullness.  

Oleum Vulpinum.  
Oleum Laurinum.  
Oleum Rutaceum.  
Oleum Chamomillinum.  
Oleum juniperinum.  
Oleum Terebinthinae.  
Oleum Benedictum.  
Oleum Philosophorum.   
These unguents and Oils do partly warm, ate●uate, and dissolve cold and glutinous humours, that often follow sharp sickness: which perilous accident cometh, by reason the sinews is offended and hurt, which doth torment the patiented, as I have seen in wounds made with gun-shot, and also in the cutting and pricking of them, by reason of repletion, and uchement pain, that draweth matter to the part affected, the which matter, Vigo noteth unto us, is sometimes conveyed to the brain, by the sinews, and when the brain feeleth the matter, it driveth it back again: by which expulsion, the sinews are filled with the aforesaid matter, and so are inobedient unto their accustomed movings. For the appeasing of these pains, you shall find great pleasure in the foresaid unguents and Oils, wherewith you shall rub and chafe well the spondles of the back, shoulders and neck, and it is good to cover the neck with wool, dipped in the said▪ Oils. As touching diet, glisters, etc. I leave it unto the learned in Physic and chirurgery, and so I will end this short observation, only I will deliver you the signs and notes of a convultion, which is, saith Tagaltius, a dull and difficult motion of the members, stretching of the neck, a drawing of the lips, as though the patient would laugh, a straightness of the jaws, teeth, and throat, a perverting, & wrying of the eyes, & also of the whole face.  
A digestive to remove aschars. 
I. B.   
Rec. 

Terebinthinae. ℥. iiii.  
Vitell. ovorum num. two.  
Mel. Ros. ℥. ss.  
ana. ʒ. i. ss. 

Olei Liliacei. &  
Amigdalarum dulc.  
Pingued. caprin.  
Butiri rec. ʒ i     Fiat, etc.  
unguentum nutritiwm. 
M●●●● Good●●●●●.   
Rec. 

Olei Ros. lib. i.  
Aceti. lib. ss.  
Lithargiri. ℥. iii. or ℥. iiii.   Misce, fiat unguentum secundum artem.  
Arceus Balm or Lineament digestive for 
A●●●●●.  wounds in the head.  
Rec. 

ana. ℥. j ss. 

Gummi Elemni  
Terebinthinae abietinae    
Sepi castrati, antiqui & Liquefacti ℥. ij.  
Pinguedinis porcinae antiquae  
Liquefactae ℥. j   Misce, & fiat Linimentum.  
Emplastrum de Gum. Elemni, for wounds 
Ar●●us.  of the head.  
Rec. 

Gummi Elemni. ℥. iij.  
ana. ℥. i●. 

Resinae pini purissimae.  
Gummi Hammoniaci  
Gummi Hederae.  
Cerae—    
Terebinthinae ℥. iij. ss.  
Olei ros. ℥. i. ss.    
Let all these boil together, except the Gum ammoniac, with one cup and a half of odoriferous wine, unto the consuming thereof, add in the end the ammoniac dissolved in Vinegar, and your Gum Hederae finely powdered: and being sufficiently boiled: let if be wrought up in Wine and aqua vitae, and so make it up in rolls, etc.  
A plaster of Betony for wounds of the head. 
〈…〉   
Rec. 

Terebinthinae clarae lib. j ss.  
Cerae albae ℥. v.  
Resinae pini ℥. vj. ss.    
Make hereof an Emplaster according to art, which being done, let it be laboured in white vinegar, in the which it must be infused six days, adding thereto two parts of the juice of Betony, and one part of the juice of Uerueine, so let it lie till it be thoroughly steeped, then let it be melted, and infuse it in the like quantity of vinegar, and other juices for other six days: then let it be melted again and laboured with women's milk, and so make it up and reserve it to your use, etc.  
Another singular plaster for wounds in the head. 
A plaster for wounds in the head. Vigo   
Rec. 

ana. ℥. ij. 

Olei Rosati, Omphacini  
& Completi.    
ana. ℥. j 

Olei Mastichini  
Olei Myrtini    
Pinguedinis Hircini. ℥. j ss.  
Succi Betonicae ℥. j    
Let them all boil together to the consuming of the juice▪ then let them be strained, after adding thereto 

Masticis ʒ. x.  
Gummi Elemni ʒ. vj.  
Terebinthinae ℥. two. ss.  
Cerae albae q. s.    
Then let them boil again at the fire a little, and so make a plaster according to art. This oil Omphacinum afore spoken of, is meant the oil made of unriped Olives. And the oil that is called Complete, is that oil which is made of the full riped Olives.  
Arceus Lineament for wounds in the head, that doth digest, mundify, and incarn.  
Rec. 

ana. ℥. i. ss. 

Terebinthinae clarae  
Emplastri gummi Elemni.    
Pinguedinis castrati. ℥. ij.  
Pinguedinis porcinae antiquae ℥. j   Misce, & fiat unguentum secundum artem.  
unguentum Mundificatiuum. 
Quercetani.   
Rec. 

Vnguenti aurei ℥. i.  
ana. ℥. ss. 

Terebinthinae  
Mellis Rosati.    
●arinae fabarum ʒ. ij.  
Boracis ʒ. j  
Pulueris praecipitat. ʒ. iii.   Misce, & fiat unguentum.  
unguentum incarnatiuum Regis Angliae. 
Rex Angliae.   
Rec. 

ana. ℥. iiii. 

Cerae albae  
Resinae    
Terebinthinae lotae ℥. i.  
ana ℥. ss. 

Thuris  
Masticis    
Olei ℥. three Misce, & fiat unguentum.    
A drying water good to skin up an ulcer that 
I. B.  is hard to be cicatrized.  
Rec. 

Aquae ros. lib. ij.  
ana. ℥. ss. 

Lapidis Hematites  
Alluminis  
Cinabrij    
Mercurij sublimat. ʒ. j  
ana. ʒ. ss. 

Sanguinis Draconis  
Boli armoniaci    
ana. ℈. ij. 

Masticis  
Thuris  
Sarcocollae     Misce in Balneo Mariae.  
A Cataplasm to suppurate. 
Andernacu●.   
Rec. 

ana. ℥. i. 

Farinae triticeae.  
Farinae fabarum    
ana. ʒ. vi. 

Farinae sem. lini  
Farinae foenigraeci    
Ficuum contusarum ℥. i. ss.  
Axungiae veteris ℥. two.  
Croci. ℈. i.  
Vitellorum ovorum nu. two.   Fiat Cataplasma. Andernacus.  
unguentum Viride Andromachi. 
〈◊〉   
Rec. 

Resinae pini lib. two.  
Cerae lib. i. ss.  
Olei come. ℥. viii.  
Aeruginis aeris. ℥. iii.    
Relent your Oil, Rosiu, and Beware at a gentle fire of roales, and at last add to your Aerug. in sine powder.   

Now it followeth that I speak of the order and reason of diet, which the patiented wounded aught to observe, according as Tagaliius and Guido, with other excellent men, have published and set down for all us to follow which practice Chirurgery, for the comfort & health of the sick and wounded patients.  
IN the first seven days, his diet must be thin and slender, inclined to cold and mo●stliesse, specially, if the patiented be young and full bodied.  
You shall forbid Wine to all wounded persons, chief if he have a Fever, and incline to an Inflammation.  
Let them austin from all flesh that is hard and tough, and from great Fishes, that engender evil juice, from new and unleavened bread, evil made and baked.  
Also it is good to refrain all cheese, and chief that which is old and salt: from Fruits, almost of all sorts, from Garlic, Onions, all sharp and salted things, and let him not taste any kind of hot Spices.  
They may use Partridges, Pullet's, and Birds that haunt the woods: let them have tisanes of barley, and Almond Milk, and use pottage made with flesh of Veal, simple, or prepared with Eggs.  
Let him have Lettuce, Purslane, Borage, bugloss, spinach, and such like herbs in his broths.  
His drink shall be water boiled, wherein is soaked household bread, such as hath some part of bran in it, commonly called brown bread, or in stead of the said water, let him drink a ptisan of Barley: or if he be weak, or old, then let him drink tart and styptic Wine, delayed with plenty of water and sugar.  
His Supper must be but short, yet nourishing.  
It is good to use light and gentle rubbing or cha●ing the parts somewhat far off from the wounded part.  
Let him be quiet, for quietness is their chief medicine, and stirring and walking contrary, especially, if they be wounded in the lower parts of the body.  
It is necessary altogether to abstain from the use of carnal copulation.  
And also to shun ire, contention, anger, wrath, and all vehement motions of the mind.  
After the seven days, when the patiented seemeth to be sure and safe from inflammation, and all other evil accidences, then let him use a more plentiful diet, and by little and little let him return to his former custom, and then use some Wine, but meek and gentle, and let him eat such flesh as do engender good blood, and be a mayntayver of nature, and heat, and moisture, and the strength of the body, such as are the flesh of Hens, Capons, and Mutton, especially the Mutton of Weathers. And this diet is necessary and commodious to wounded men, because it maintaineth the natural habit of the body, and doth not move or stir up fevers, inflammations, nor fluxes. And to this diet, saith Tagaltius, doth all the best Physicians and Surgeons agree, as Galen, Hali, Rasis, Avicen, Brunus, Lanfrancus, and Guilielmus de Saliceto. Yet Theodoricus, and Henricus (saith Tagaltius) are of a contrary opinion, for they would have Wine, and a hot dyet-to be given, and used immediately upon the wound received: for (say they) the weakness of the faculties of the wounded person, is by and by to be strengthened and confirmed, and that by the drinking of Wine, whose sentence and judgement, is repugnant to reason, as Galen 1. lib. Aphoris. 4. saith. It chanceth but seldom in sicknesses, that we should study to restore the strength of the body, more than it may receive, for in so doing, we shall increase and maintain the sickness: so that it appeareth by Galens words, that we must not always haste to increase the strength, but it is sufficient sometimes to conserve, and maintain the same, so that, from the first time that the wound is received, to the seventh day, in the which time, inflammations use to come. Let the use of drinking Wine be altogether forbidden, unless through flux of blood, the strength be altogether enfeebled. Celsus saith, ye may refresh the patiented a little with Wine, but otherwise, it is an enemy to wounds. After the seventh day, if nothing do let, you may use Wine delayed with water: for if the wound remain without accidents till then, it is commonly afterward in safety, therefore nothing I say herein can be more necessary for a young practiser in Surgery, then to endeavour himself to know before what evil will follow, and to learn how to prevent and resist the same. And thus much as concerning dieting of your patient, which is very necessary as I say for all those Surgeons which travail great and long voyages by sea, as also in the wars by land, etc. which can not have always Physicians at their elbows to counsel them, but it were very good, I know, if they had: but where no such helps are to be found, I judged it not amiss here to admonish and set down this foresaid order of dieting of your patients, first of all collected for our comfort and help, by those excellent learned men here afore spoken of, etc.   

A short and brief note for the manner of the purging of your patients being at the Sea, or in such like places where the counsel of the learned Physician or Chirurgeon is not to be had.  
YE shall understand, if the patiented wounded, be bound in his belly, and not laxative; for remedy thereof you may use a Clyster, or suppository, or else give the patiented Cassia, or Mamna, or some such gentle purging medicine. But if he be of evil complexion or habit, his body being replenished with evil ivyee, or if the wound be grievous and great, yea though his body were pure and clean, yet those gentle purgings will not then suffice, but we must use stronger medicines: so that there are two principal observations in purging of the patients in such wounds: the greatness of the grief, and the abundance of the evil juice. But if the wound consist in the upper part of the body, then to purge downward, is the counsel of the learned: and if the wound be in the lower parts of the body, to stay the flux of humours from flowing thither, it is meet and convenient to withdraw the same by purging or by vomit; which is to be done with great discretion. Thus much I have thought not amiss to note for general observations herein, and such as I have followed in mine own cures, partly by my own endeavour, and partly directed and ratified by the judgements and informations in times passed of divers learned Physicians and chirurgeons.  
 depiction of man with many war injuries   

Necessary medicines and Instruments, good for young practisers of chirurgery to be furnished with which follow the wars either by Sea or land.  
IT is truly said, there is no coin so currant, but hath in it some counterfeits, which maketh it suspicious: so is there no art so sincere, no profession so good, but hath also some counterfeits which breedeth it disgrace. And none so much, I suppose, as there is some in these days, which take upon them the titles or names of far traveling or wandering chirurgeons, & such like, which with 
Many good Ships are as it were become eggs for such unclean birds the more is th● pity.  corruption of conscience, being void of the good graces of God, and true knowledge in this noble art, either in reason, judgement, or experience, being likewise utterly unfurnished of all good method or yet good medicines, unless it be some such stuff which a man would scarce lay to a galled horse back, with other furniture correspondent to the same, neither being able to perform any good cure they take in hand, no more than they are able with one puff of wind to turn about a Millstone. All which is a plain demonstration of their great oversight in chirurgery, as by their cures at their coming home, is a special token of their wild ignorance. And therefore very hardly are such able to declare or foretell the end of their cures, but rashly do promise that which they cannot perform, and so bring themselves in the end to ignominy and shame, and this worthy art unto great discredit. I have therefore, as I have many times said, for the benefit of young practisers of the Art, here collected out of josephus Quirsitanus and good Vigo, with divers others, special medicines and necessary Instruments, whereunto I have added somewhat of mine own collection, very needful and necessary for all young practisers of chirurgery to be furnished with, which follow and serve in the wars by land, or at seas in ships, unto whom I wish most happy success in all their cures, as I wish unto my own: as knoweth God, who seethe the secrets of all men's hearts, which guide you all with his outstretched arm, and bless you also with his holy hand. Amen.  

Suppuratives, or Maturatives 
〈…〉 Quercetanus.   
unguentum Basilicon utrumque.  
unguentum Macedonicum.  
Tetrapharmacum.  
unguentum resumptiuum.  
The Emplaster of Mucilages, which may be dissolved with Oil Olive, if need require.   

Mundifying or cleansing Medicines.  
unguentum diapompholygos Nicolai.  
unguentum viride andromachi.  
Emplastrum Divinum dissolved in Oil of Roses.  
unguentum Apostolicum Auicennae.  
unguentum Aegyptiacum Auicennae.   

Incarnatives, or Regeneratives.  
unguentum Aureum.  
unguentum ceras. Mesuae utrumque. 
N. 〈◊〉.   
Emplastrum de gratia Dei, & de farina.   

desiccatives or drying Medicines.  
unguentum de minio.  
unguentum desiccatiuum rub.  
Emplastrum de cerussa.   

Unguents for burnings with Gunpowder.  
unguentum fuscum Nicolai.  
unguentum de calce viu.  
unguentum Magistrale, of the Physicians of, Florence, described by Weckerus. Medicines, to repel and keep back.  
unguentum de bolo communi.  
unguentum rosarum Mesues, etc.   
Also unguentum pro ustionibus, after Paracelsus, which 
Paracelsus.  was greatly commended to me by a Physician and Surgeon of good account, but as yet I have not proved it.  
Rec. 

Butyri. lib. j  
ana. lib. ss. 

Olei nucum.  
Seui ceruini.    
Medullae tauri. ℥. iiij.    
Let this be melted at the fire, then put it into the water of Nymphae, three quarters of a pint, and so make here of an Unguent according to Art, let the part affected be anointed herewith, till the pain be ceased, and the wound cured.  

Of Syrups these be convenient. 
Vigo.   
Acetosus simplex.  
A Syrup of the juice of Endive, or  
De duabus radicibus, without vinegar.  
Mell rosarum in small quantity.   

Of waters these shall suffice. ana. q. s.  
Water of Endive.  
Hops.  
Borage.  
Wormwood.  
Fumitory.   

Of Electuaries, these they shall have with them.  
Diaphoenicon.  
Elec. de succo rosarum, after Mesue and Diacatholicon.  
Also Cassia.   

pills they must have.  
Pillulae Hierae cum agarico.  
Pillulae de fumoterrae, the greater and the less.   

Against the disease Opthalmia, they must have  
Aqua Rosacea.  
And a sief without Opium.  
Oleum Rosaceum.  
Myrtillorum.  
Chamomillinum.  
Oleum Omphacinum.   
And it is convenient that they have with them  

Farinae.  
Fabarum.  
Orobi.  
Lini.  
Foenugreci. and Aqua vitae.  
Hordei.  
Lupinorum. 
Clow●●.   
Tritici.   

Emplasters.  
Emp. despeciebus.  
Emp. Diachalciteos.  
Emp. Cum Gummis.  
Emp. Sticticum Paracelsi.  
Emp. Hyoscyami Lutei, of my invention.  
Emp. Cumini, good for cold and windy swellings.  
Emp. Flos unguentorum.  
Emp. de minio.   

Unguents, etc.  
unguentum Dialthaeae.  
unguentum Album Rasis.  
unguentum de peto of my invention.  
Arceus Lineament for wounds in the head, and his plaster for the same.  
Also unguentum pro Spasmo.  
Balsamum Artificiale.  
Oleum Hyperic. cum Gummis.  
Oleum Catulorum.  
Oleum Lumbricorum.  
Oleum Ouorum.  
Oleum Scorpionis.  
Oleum Amygdalarum dull.  
Butyrum Recens.   
A Lotion for sore mouths, good for such as have the Scorbuto, as at Sea and other places I have seen: for the perfect cure of it, I refer you to Wyerus, which book Master Hunton hath of late translated into English.  
Mythridatum, or fine Venice treacle, Spermaceti, french Barley, Licoris, and Anniseedes, very necessary to make Barley water, and Potus Antiochiae for wounds in the body, etc.  

For Cataplasms.  
Flores Ros. in pull.  
Flores camomile. in pull.  
Flores Melilot. in pull.  
Rad. Altheae in pulu,   

To rebate spongeous flesh, etc.  
Mercury Praecipitat.  
Mercury sublimat.  
Allumen roch.  
Vitriolum. Acetum.   

Also  
Eggs.  
Tow.  
Splints for fractured bones.  
Tape to bind.  
Cupping or boxing glasses.  
A chafing-dish of Copper, Brass, or Iron.  
A Mortar, and a Pestle.  
Blood Porringers.   

Powders to restrain great fluxes of blood.  
Galens Powder.  
Gales Powder.  
Or my Powder may suffice.   

Small and long wax Candles made of Tin, Lead, Silver, or Wood, etc.  
A sharp saw.  
A Catlin.  
An Incision knife.   

Needles two or three, some of eight, ten, or thirteen inches in length, having a decent eye in it, guttered like a Spanish needle, fit to draw a flamula, or piece of fine Lawn or linen cloth through a member that is wounded, etc.  
Small buttons, or cauterising irons, meet to stay the flux of an artery or vain, if great necessity do so require.  
A Trepan.  
A head saw.  
An Elevatorie.   
A Dilatorium to open a wound, that a Darthead, Arrow-head, or bullet, may the better be taken out, with a Rostrum Coruinum, or ravens bill, or with a Rostrum Anatinum, or Duck's bill, or with a Rostrum Gruinum, fashioned like a Storcks' bill, or Crane's bill.  
There be in use of these two sorts, one bowing, and the other strait.  
A Speculum oris, for the mouth.  
A Syringe.  
As for stitching quills, and other instruments that a Surgeou ought always to carry about him, I leave unspoken of. There are also many other Instruments I know, which are in use, but these may suffice for young practisers of the Art, and unto men of great knowledge and experience it is needless for me to nominate the rest.   

A necessary note or observation for the cure of one Master Buckland, dwelling (as he said) at the sign of the George at Reading, a town in Berkshire, he received a puncture or prick into the sinew or nerve of his right arm, by a most impudent and ignorant bloudletter, which did prick the sinew in stead of the liuen vain.  
THis Master Buckland having a full and plethoric body, and thereupon inclined to sickness, made his journey up to London, only to take physic, which he did by the counsel of Master Doctor Symons, who was in times past one of his old acquaintance. After his body was well prepared and purged, his Physician prescribed him farther remedy by a bill, and amongst other things, that the patient should be let blood to the value of eight ounces 〈…〉 the liver vain, appointing him thereunto also a 〈…〉 dwelling in this City, called Master Morland: but (as he said) fortune owing him despite, by chance that Chirurgeon was not at home, being called otherwise about some special cures, and therefore it was said his coming home to be uncertain. With that a friend of Master Buckland that did come to visit him, and after speeches had, understanding that he wanted one to let him blood, said: If it please you I will send for one that I do partly know, not only to be a good Surgeon, but for letting of blood, and drawing of a tooth, he is supposed to be as skilful as any man in this town. Now such a one (said he) that can so well let blood, I would willingly hear, and if it will please you, I will send my man for him in your name. In fine, a bad thing was easy to find, for he was presently brought. Then Master Buckland (as you have heard) being the sick patient, delivered unto this bloudletter the physicians bill, which was written in English: but be answered and said, Truly I can neither write nor read: nevertheless, doubt you of nothing, but I can and will do it as well as any man whatsoever. I dare make that comparison (quoth he) so the patiented did read the bill unto him, which did signify that there should be eight ounces of blood, taken from the liver vain on the right arm. O the liver vain sir (said he) I know it as well as all the Physicians and Surgeons in this town: and so without any longer detracting of time, he went about his business, and did so be rub and chase his arm, as though he had been labouring about his horse heels, and then bound it up after his own fashion. All which being accomplished, in the twinkling of an eye, or turning of a hand, this tooth-drawer, or bloudletter (as he called him) did 
Ignorance engendereth error.  without all regard or skill, unadvisedly overshoot himself, and did thrust the sick patiented into the sinew in stead of the liver vain. Then presently by the reason of the great sensibility and feeling of the pricked sinew, he fainted, or sounded down right, and much ado they had to keep life in him: so they gave him presently to drink Aqua vitae, etc. And were further constrained to burn a card, being soulded up round, and offered the smoke thereof up into his nostrils. This done, he was laid upon his bed, than all those that were about the sick patient, did begin to find great fault with his baseness and want of skill, and condemned his handy work. Well (said he) I pray you be patiented, the matter truly is as much 
The more the worse.  as nothing, for I have had divers that have fainted thus, and yet were presently well again: but the fault that I have committed, I will confess, was, for that the Orifice was made too little, and in very deed the only cause was in himself, for that he did not hold still his arm, as he should have done. Then one of the standers by answered, a blind shift is better than none at all, you might as well have said, he had eaten his horse because his saddle lieth under his bed. Well (said he) you speak merrily, I know that saying hath been used long, as an old jest, but I pray you all be contented and I will make him well again upon my credit within twice four & twenty hours. To be short, his words were but wind, for within that time and space he had most of those accidents which foretelleth death, for the wound did receive or entertain many humours, with extreme pain, inflammation, a Fever shivering, raving, and oftentimes convulsions. Then they counseled together and determined to stay no longer upon this foolish tooth-drawer his vain promises: for which cause they sent for Master Doctor Symons, and after his coming it was strange unto him to see such a sudden alteration, demanded of them what the cause might be: Then briefly they delivered unto him all the evil that had happened, and the causer thereof. In the mean time, I was also sent for: but here omitting other speeches had, I requested of them, that without any detracting of time I might see the hurt: so without carrying I did lay all naked and bare, where I found the patiented to have those evil symptoms before rehearsed, and nature also weakened. Then Master Doctor Symons called for the fellow that had dressed him. Here I am (quoth he) You have not been circumspect in all things which concern the methodical perfection of this your handy work. I will answer what I have done (quoth he) Then said he unto him, what reason had you not only to commit a marvelous oversight in pricking of the sinew, but also almost as foul a fault in stopping or closing up of the Orifice of the wound, or prick of the sinew, which now by your unskilfulness is hidden under the skinue, which at the very first you ought with all your industry and diligence to have kept open. Well (said he) I have applied thereunto those medicines which cannot be bettered, and are by me well approved to be good, either for pricks or cuts of tendons, sinews, or veins, but yet did I never see accidents thus secretly steal into a wound. I pray you (said I) what be your medicines or remedics that you have used which are so good and have so evil success. I tell you (said he) they are no beggarly medicines, but the best I could buy for my money: The one is Gracia dei, and the other is an Indian Balm, which I know is good, for well I wot it cost me two shillings and six pence the ounce at the first hand. Your remedies (said I) may be profitable as they are used, although not for such pricks of sinews. What is your reason I pray you (said he) I never heard any man say so but you. Marry (quoth I) because at the beginning of all such pricks, you ought not to use neither conglutinatives, nor incarnatives, until the wound be past all danger, and then such medicines which have property to incarn, and to cover the sinew with flesh, may safely be used: neither are such wounds restored again by Balms, according to the first intention, but only in fleshy parts. But this shifting fellow answered & said: You make here a greater stir before the patiented and his friends, than there is cause. And what though he be a little faint, he shall be well again by God's grace, if he will be ruled by me but a little while, and I will stand to it for all your talk, it is but a small prick only in the skin. But admit the sinew were clean cut asunder, which is, I suppose, a more worse and dangerous thing then the prick of a sinew: and yet (said he) without comparison or praise to myself I speak it, and without all this business, I have cured them when I have had no such overseers or counsellors, but myself alone. Why (said I) do you not think that a prick in the sinew is more dangerous than that sinew which is clean cut asunder. No (said he) you shall never make me believe that a prick by a small pointed thing, as is a lancet, or a needle, can be so dangerous, as that which is cut asunder by a razor, knife, or other sharp weapons. Now truly (said I) I may well credit you in good sooth that you can neither write nor read, neither yet have any good experience: for if you had, you would never thus besot yourself with such rude judgements and fond opinions: but you are partly to be excused, for you have more fellows, whose knowledge and skill is correspondent with yours, as directly as the sheep doth follow the Ram. Then he did begin to oyen the gates of infamy (as is the manner of such mischievous miscreants) but most specially against a reverend and skilful Chirurgeon of this City of London, shamefully charging him that he had spoiled a Gentlewoman in the country, who 
He hath me●● selowes that will point at other men's faults, and forget their own.  having (as this slanderer said) but a little prick with a needle only in the skin, and was in the joint of her fore singer of her right hand, and by that small prick in the skin, she lost the use of that finger, which cure (quoth he) hath utterly discredited him both with the Gentlewoman and her friends. I answered him and said: That might have been any other man's case, and I told him that myself had known the like success to happen in the cure of men of good knowledge, experience, and judgement: and yet, in mine opinion, no fault nor error at all committed by them touching the method or manner of cure. Well (said he) speak what you please, I do know the prick with a needle in the skin is nothing so dangerous, as you make it, in any body whatsoever. But it is said to be the manner of all you, to hide and excuse one an others fault, and to speak against such as I am, because I am a stranger unto you, and none of your company, and therefore I am despised, and my medicines dispraised. Why (said I) every honest man and faithful true Artist that is diligent in study, and by his studying attaineth to knowledge and skill, and being examined, approved, and allowed, and a man that feareth God, and endeavoureth to the uttermost of his power and skill to discharge his duty which is committed to his charge, according unto those graces and gifts which God of his great goodness hath endued him with: such men are our brethren and of our company, wheresoever he dwell or abide: but contrariwise, deceivers, intruders, and shifters, as you are, which without either reason or skill, do abuse the art and spoil the people, we exclude such persons clean from us, and do account you all but as a sort of Caterpillars in the country and Common wealth. Then I proceeded to his former speeches as touching the prick of a needle in the skin, and I said unto him: sith you will not believe me that such pricks are dangerous, I will show you what Tagaultius saith being a learned man, and of great account in Physic and chirurgery, he also citing Galen in the sixth book of his method, whose words in effect are these. Imagine (saith he) one come unto us, who hath but only a prick in the skin with a needle, that man for the good disposition of his body may easily be cured, and to follow his accustomed business, having the part naked and bare, and without any medicine at all, and yet receive no hurt: but if he have a full and plethorike body, or a body of an ill constitution, called Cachochymia, in such a body the prick of a needle in the skin is hard to be cured. Then this counterfeit answered again, I care neither for Galen nor the other man you speak of (meaning Tagaltius) 
Reason's according to his rudeness.  for (said he) I have done as good cures as the best of them both, and yet I hear they were a couple of good workmen. Then said Master Doccor: I am ashamed of thy impudency and boldness, and for that cause did sharply reprehend him: So he was commanded to avoid the place and presence of the patiented. Then with unseemly speeches, which are not meet to be spoken of in this place, he departed, etc. And now I will come unto the cure of the said puncture or prick of the sinew: but first you shall understand, that the matter was so stopped in, that it could not by any means conveniently breath out, and therefore I did open the skin by incision directly upon the prick of the sinew, which I made of a sufficient length, that the matter which was stopped in did the more freely and easily issue out: and that matter which did continually flow forth was some what clear, thin, and glutinous, like as though it had been a stime, or mucilage: then I applied upon 
Note that, old things be enemies unto the sinews.  the said puncture to mitigate the pain these Dyles following, made first actually hot, which I used continually until the forenamed accidents were removed and taken away.  
Rec. 

ana. ℥. ss. 

Oleorum Chamomeli  
& Lombricorum. 
〈◊〉     
Olei Euphorbij. ʒ. ●. ss.  
Olei exvitellis ovorum. ʒ. ij.  
Aquae vitae. q. s.   Misce.  
Since the time of this cure, I found the like profit for appeasing of pains in the cure of a woman, which also was prick into the sinew, unto whom I used these Dyles following, in the same order as the other afore rehearsed.  
Rec. ana. ʒ. iij. 

Olei Terebinthinae  
Olei Rosarum.  
Olei Lumbricorum.  
Olei vitellorum ovorum. Misce.    
After I had (actually hot) applied the aforesaid Dyles, than I ministered therewithal, for more security and speedy help to appease the pains, this worthy remedy, which is of Vigo his description.  
Rec. Medullae panis, & Lactis vaccini confecti cum Oleis 
Vigo.  Rosarum, & Chamomeli cum vitellis ovorum, & cum Croco. ana. q. s.  
Boil all these together unto the thickness of a plaster, the which I applied warm upon the said puncture. Also upon this medicament of Vigo, and likewise round about the whole member, where any pain or inflammation was, this excellent Cataplasm of Valeriola.  
Rec. 

ana. ℥. iij. 

Farinae fabarum  
Hordei. 
Valeriola.   
Lentium.  
Lupinorum.    
ana. ℥. ij. 

Farinae Seminis lini.  
Foenugreci.    
Farinae Orobi. ℥. j  
Croci ʒ. ij.   Bulliant farinae cum aceto & mellis parvo. Fiat Cataplasma.  
Also I have used this following in the like cure done of late, as I have declared, with great profit and ease unto the patiented, etc.  
Rec. ana. q. s. 

Radic. althaeae  
Farinae Hordei  
Farinae fabarum  
Farinae lentium 
Weck●●.    Coquantur cum sapa, vel lixivio. Whereunto you shall add ana. q. s. 

Olei Rosarum  
Olei Chamamelini &  
Olei Anethini  
Also Terebinthinae &  
Croci parum.   Misce, & fiat Emplastrum.  
I have thought it not amiss here to give to understand, that Guido doth admonish us, not to use at all those poultices, or hot waters which are wont to cure inflammations, for that such remedies in this cure, do rather putrefy and waste away the sinews, etc. And sith the chiefest thing in curing wounds of the sinews, is to appease the pain, therefore I have thought it good here to set forth such chosen medicines, as myself have approved, for the better directing of those young students, which have not been practised in the like manner of curing. Moreover, whereas Guido with others doth wisely declare, that convulsions are evil, and for the most part uncurable, as it is most certain and true, yet it so pleased God by these remedies hereafter nominated, he was in a reasonable time and space quite delivered of that evil accident, by anointing morning and evening all the hinder parts of his neck, and both his shoulder blades, and down all the spin of his back, even unto his hips with this Unguent.  
Rec. 

Olei Castorei ℥. j  
Olei juniperi. ℥. ss.  
ana. ʒ. vj. 

Olei Lilliorum &  
Olei Vulpini.     Misce.  
This being accomplished, as is before declared, than I proceeded from time to time until the finishing of this cure, the which was done in the end with that most excellent Balm, that is supposed to be of Master halls description, late of Maydstone, which is now extant in this book, with the which also I used this Unguent following.  
Rec. 
unguentum aureum Ebony. Mesu●.  

Cerae. ℥. v.  
Resinae quar. j  
Terebinthinae lib. j  
Mellis. quar. ss.  
ana. ʒ. ij. 

Masticis  
Thuris.  
Sarcocollae.  
Myrrhae.  
Aloes.  
Croci.     Fiat unguentum.  
This approved Unguent, and the aforesaid Balm together, brought very speedily flesh upon the hurt sine we: and having left the use of the Cataplasm, afore spoken of, than I did wrap the whole member round about cum Emplastro Diachalciteos, dissolved in Oleo Rosarum, & Lumbricorun: which did greatly strengthen the weak member. And thus by God's help by this manner of method he was restored again to his former health of the part wounded. And here I finish this short note or observation, the which I do most heartily desire all young students to take in good part, and to accept of this until it shall please some learneder man of greater gifts and judgement to publish a more profitable work: the which heartily I wish, as knoweth God, who direct both you and me in all lawful proceed and practices in the art.   

The cure of a certain stranger which was wounded or thrust through his thigh with a Rapier, by one of his own countrymen, being combating and fight together. The cure thereof was somewhat hard and difficult, by reason he was further touched with the french disease before he received his wound, etc.  
Immediately after he had received his wound or thrust through his thigh, I was sent for unto this cure, the patiented lying at a strangers house in the Crouched Friars: ye shall understand he had a very strong, fat, and corpulent body, and so a very big thigh, he was a man about thirty years of age: all which being considered, concerning the state and strength of his body, and the greatness of the place wounded: then for the cure thereof I did ordain a flamula made of fine Lawn, the which dipped in Oleo Hypericonis cum gummis, and with a needle made of Whale's bone, fit for such purposes, I did draw the said flamula into the wound, and I did leave both the ends thereof hanging forth at the Orifices of this wound, putting also a small tent in the dependent or lowest part of the wound, and the largest Orifice which was at the inside of his thigh, and there it did rest for the space of two days, applying also thereto for the staying of the blood Galen his powder, and above the wound I laid a very good defensive: after I did bolster and roll it up according as art did lead me. The second day at night he did require me to dress him again, for because the night before he said he was troubled with a fever, as he supposed it to be, and was so persuaded by other: and for that cause he entertained a Physician, a country man of his, for to cure his ague, and also to see his wound. Now when the wound was opened, it was without tumour or any other evil symptoms, only I found a bloody saines: for that cause I used next with the flamula a very good digestive, the which I dipped in Oleo rosarum, & melle rosarum, ana. q. s. and left to use the Oil of Hypericon: The next day in the morning he complained of extreme pain which he had suffered all that night: then I opened the wound, and I did find it as before, wherewith he was somewhat disquieted in body and mind. Then I dressed him again, and he was very quiet and well all that day, and at night the wound tended towards digestion, which was (me thought) very well to be liked of: but the next day in the morning it was more worse than before, a stinking bloody sanies: and the next day at night the matter was indifferent, yet in the morning by no means I could procure concoct or digest matter: notwithstanding, the best digestives and other good medicines used. So the Physician and the rest of his 
He was a young Phisiton, scarce skilful in the art of chirurgery, though otherwise well learned.  country men thought somewhat amiss in me, for that the patiented his wound did prosper no better: And in like manner I thought somewhat in the Physician, for that he could not find out the reason and cause of his supposed fever. To come unto the purpose, at the next opening in the presence of his host of the house, where he did lie, which was his interpreter, I desired him to demand of the patiented, when and where his pains did most afflict him. He answered, in the night time, and chief in his head, and also his shoulders, legs and arms, all which were very sore grieved and tormented. Then I was the bolder to proceed in examination, and asked of him if he had any breaking out in some particular parts of his body. He answered no, but only a few Scabs in his head, the which he did not perceive, but since he was hurt and kept his bed: and further he said, he was very sore grieved with the hemorrhoids or Piles, which for the baseness of the place he said he was unwilling to acquaint any man with. Then I plainly told him he was touched with the French disease. So 
They 〈◊〉 neither emoroydes nor P 〈…〉 es. violet his correction, but the F. P.  I being loath to give offence, said little more at that time, because I perceived he had my words in disdain, until he had better considered with himself. And against my next coming he caused the Physician to meet with me: So after he had also scene and heard the whole matter, he likewise confirmed my sayings, that certainly it was the French disease. Why (said the patiented to the Doctor) doth our country yield such fruit, and I being no Frenchman: He answered, God plagueth most part of the world with that disease only for our sins and wickedness. So order was taken by us presently: & we entered him in cure for that sickness. But here it is to be noted, that in all this time I did never alter or change mine intention of curing, neither did I leave of the use of the flamula, until the wound was perfectly digested, which we could by no means procure, until he was entered six days in the diet: and then altogether I left of my digestives, and the use of the 
Such wounds are seldom: void of accidents, until the 〈◊〉 be perfectly di●ested  flamula, and used but short tents with good injections, and also Oleum Hypericonis, with other convenient remedies meet for this cure. In the end, when the patiented did perceive he was almost cured, he would (as it were) merely seem to excuse himself: and being (as it seemed) partly ashamed of his disease, protested unto us, with many incredible speeches and untruths, that he did not understand how he should come by the disease, no more than he did know, how, or whether the Ocean seas did ebb or flow, or not, unless it were by traveling over the Alps, or with drinking of snow water. These his ridiculous reasons I accepted as wind. It sufficeth (I say) that he was cured. So he was glad of his health, and I nothing sorry of his liberalicie. Yet he was to be borne withal: for I have not heard of many that would willingly vouchsafe to confess the original and taking of such infirmities. But what if he had? It is not our functions or callings (that be chirurgeons) to reveal the secrets of our patients, as we are taught by the ordinances of our elders and ancient fathers that went before us.   

The cure of a man which received a notable wound in his head, with great fracture of the skull, and did moreover fracture the bone of the thigh, called Osfemoris, by a fall out of a gallery in the Bear garden, at that time when the Bear garden did fall down, and did kill and hurt many.  
I Have thought it good, afore I enter into the brief note or observation of this cure, partly to signify unto all young students in this art, that such great wounds in the head, with fracture of the skull, are holden generally of the best professors and practisers, to be most perilous and dangerous. The bone being compressed upon the pannicle Dura matter: for which cause, at the very beginning of this cure, I did shave or cut the hair away round about the wound: then with my finger I made further probation into the wound, and there I did manifestly feel a notable fracture or breach in the skull on the left side of his head upon the bone, called Os Petrosum, which (as is before said) was depressed upon the pannicle Dura matter. And for that the fracture of the skull was greater in length then the wound in the flesh, for that cause, without detracting of time, I made incision, and so followed the fracture, until all the rift or cracked bone was wholly discovered. When I did see and behold the full length of the fracture or breach in the skull, and had raised up the flesh, then for that I could not at that present time proceed any further in this business, because of the great flux of blood, and the rather for that he had lost a great quantity of blood before he was brought home to his lodging. All which being considered, I filled the wound with pleggets and runlets made of lint, and very sine tow, wet in the whites of Eggs, being mixed with Galen his powder. Then after, with good bolstering and rolling, he remained thus until the next day, and then having also a present regard unto the preservation of the fracture of his thigh, as hereafter I 〈…〉 lie to set dow●e the true manner and 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉▪ 〈◊〉 this great fracture and wound in his head. ●et amongst other things, I thought 〈◊〉 good al●● to ●ore heart unto you, that the patient's master, and other of his friends, did signify 〈◊〉 me that h● 〈…〉 of ●●●d account, and for that cause they were ●e more 〈…〉 I would de●●e●e truly unto them w●●● d●ung●▪ I thought he was in, that they might also signify iurato other of his 〈◊〉 in the country. Then I considered with myself, I was then to speak before men of worship▪ wisdom and learning, unto whom I was to deliver m●●e 〈◊〉. And calling to 〈◊〉 remembrance some part of the wise sayings of Guido, Tagaultius, and others, whose good counsel herein is thankfully to be embraced and followed.  
When then ar● (say they) called before a Magistrate or head Officer, or any other grave and wise man, and that thou are required ●o deliver thine opinion, sentence and judgement uppou the person wounded, and to prognosticate, as much as art requireth, it behoveth thee diligently and effectually to mark the wound or wounds, if there be many, and shall shalt truly call the same wound or wounds by their express and proper names, together with the place wounded. Then after it behoneth thee to consider with thyself the cause or thy conjecture, and the reason of thy sentence and judgement by thee delivered, wisely and prudently, lest thou tail in thy judgement, and so show s●y self to be either 〈…〉 rend, or else deceived, etc. So briefly here I could them, that he was not without great danger. partly by reason the 〈…〉 was sore shaken with the fall, and also for that the ●one was broken, and depressed upon Dura matter, which were 〈…〉 caus●● that did h●●der his speech, and ● it could not be 〈◊〉 at the 〈…〉 or dressing, by reason of the great 〈…〉 oud: ●owbe●t, I did hope of some amendment after ● h●● pierced the skull with the Trepan. Other sp 〈…〉 I h●● as touching his vomiting, the greatness of his wound, with the fracture of his skull and 〈…〉 speak ●●●e of hereafter in 〈…〉 I caused them to hang all his chamber 〈◊〉 about with Couerle●s and other hangings, and made it 〈◊〉 dark, and without any light or air, but only by a candle: because in this c●se air is very hurtful. Then at the second 〈◊〉, after 〈…〉 e●ed the wound and taken away all 〈…〉 wound was filled, for the restraining 〈…〉 it did require with all expedition to make v●n● or way 〈…〉 to come forth, therefore I caused th●n strong men steadfastly to stay his head with their hands▪ and 〈◊〉 ●opped his ears with wool, than I did set on the Trepan. and so pierced the skull through both the tables in two places: and then with an Instrument, called ● Levatorie, I raised up the depressed bone, with great care and diligence, for fear of procuring further accidents: which being dove, presently his speech amended. And upon Dura matter I found a good quantity of congealed blood, which presently I removed for fear of pain and inflammation. After the blood with speed was taken away, there was also very apparent to be seen a certain blackness upon Dura matter: for the which cause I did put between Dura matter and the skull, in the ●●ead of a syndall that Vigo commendeth, a fine 〈…〉 wne, dipped in Melle Ros. and upon the fracture of the 〈…〉 I applied actually hot Olei Ros. & Aquae vitae, 〈…〉 with ●●●t so filled up the wound: and at other 〈…〉 I used upon pleggets of lint this Unguent, which is called unguentum caprifolij, that I found then 〈◊〉 in Master Gales second book of his antidotary: but since that time I have found it in Wecker, and diu 〈…〉 others.  
Rec. 
Vnguentun● Capri●olij. Wecker.  

ana. ℥. iiij. 

Terebinthinae  
Resinae pini  
Cerae novae    
Olei Rosati ℥. viii.  
ana. ℥. j 

Masticis  
Thuris    
Gummi elemnij. ℥. ij.  
ana. ℥. iij. 

Caprifolij  
Betonicae    
Vini optimi lib. x.    
The Woodbine and betony being stamped, let them stand infused in the wine four and twenty hours, then add to them all the other parcels, except the Gums, Frankincense and Mastic, boil these on a clear fire until half part of the wine be consumed, and that it begin to wax green, then strain it, and let it cool: then boil it again until the wine be consumed: then strain it again, and add to the rest of the parcels in fine powder, than put it in a cold place and reserve it to your use. After (as I said) I had preserved the wound with these remedies here rehearsed: then I applied also over all the aforesaid medicines, this plaster of Betony, and at last I anointed his head round about the wounds with Oleo Rosarum, and over all this a good bed or cap of tow: and then with blostering and rolling I finished this dressing, etc.  
Rec. 
Emplastru● Betonicae.  

Gummi elemnij ℥. iiij.  
Resinae ℥. viii.  
Cerae ℥. vj.  
Gummi armoniaci ℥. iiij.  
Terebinthinae ℥. vj.  
Succi Betonicae ℥. x.   Misce & fiat Emplastrum.  
I was constrained contrary unto the description of this plaster, to enlarge and double the quantities of the receipt, because I used much of it. And further, it is to be noted, that from the beginning I also applied upon the wound warm stuphes with white wine and Aqua vitae. And thus I continued with this manner of dressing, until all the blackness was clean taken away from Dura matter, by the said honey of Roses. But if that blackness should not have gone away, notwithstanding the use of honey of Roses, as I have seen, it is then to be feared, and small hope of health is to be looked for. 
It is supposed not to be good for to over busy ourselves in these wounds of the head in the full of the Moon, without great cause constrain us.  And again, the wounded man was in the more danger, for that he received his hurt very near the full of the Moon, whereby this evil followed that Dura matter did rise, and thrust itself out of those places of the skull, that I did perforat or pierce with the Trepan, the which I did safely bring down again in this manner, with a fomentation or decoction made thus, etc.  
Rec. 

ana. q. s.  
Florum Ros.  
Chamameli  
Melilotae  
Aquae vitae    
And these were all boiled together in fair water, and last was added the Aqua vitae, and herewith did I for a good space foment well or bathe the place: and then I applied upon Dura matter, this remedy following, and with a fine piece of Lawn orderly conveyed under Cranium, or the skull, perfectly to defend the pannicle from being hurt with the sharp edges of the bone.  
Rec. 

ana. ℥. j 

Olei Rosarum  
Mellis Rosarum.    
Aquaevitae ℥. ss.   Misce.  
And sometimes in like manner I used Oleun vitellorum onorum, which did pleasure us greatly sometimes being used by itself alone. And at other times I mixed it with the remedy above written, I mean that oil of Eggs, which hath a fair yellow colour, and a pleasant and sweet savour: And ●●po● th● foresaid piece of ●●●e Lawhe ● 〈◊〉 a 〈…〉 piece of a sponge steeped in the 〈◊〉 〈…〉 with this order Dura matter was 〈…〉 wought 〈…〉 〈…〉▪ which to do in some bodies is wonderful 〈…〉 and 〈…〉: therefore it doth require great diligence▪ care, and 〈…〉 ●ud as touching the scaling and removing of the fractured ●●●es, it was safely done in a reasonable time, partly with the use of Olei Rosarum▪ & Aquae vitae. ●●d sometimes with Aqua vitae, & Vitriol alb. ana. q. s. But when I applied the Aqua vitae, and vitriol, I did first de●●●● t●● 〈…〉 parts of the wound with dry lint, etc. for if it should at any tune touch the flesh, it wi●● cause great pain, neither may such wounds be disquieted with any sharp or by●ing 〈…〉, least the wounds (as I have seen) shall receive or entertain a certain strange malignity, which doth greatly hinder the perfection and course of the cure. And often times I used pulvis Cephalicus, which is a very apt and a convenient remedy for scaling of bones of the head. And with these foresaid medice●●●nes, A continued until there was good flesh brought upon L●ura matter, and the fractured bones being so loosed and borne up, and in the place of these bones Nature supplied and ordained a good and perfect callus, or porus. And thus he was shortly after well and perfectly cured and w●de whole of the said wound of his head. Moreover, ●e s●●all f●rther understand, that in the time of this cute, we w●●●●●mpelled to use dirt, purging, and phlebothornie, the which I do but thus speak of in a Word, for that it was done by the direction of a learned Phistci●●● and so he was made perfect whole of this ●ound of ●is head, Now here I will also briefly touch 〈…〉 〈…〉 the fracture of the bone of his thigh, and therefore I ende●ou●●d myself ●e● the right placing of this fracture, which was broken transnerse or cross wise. It is to be further noted, that of fractured when they happen in bodies of evil disposition and temperature, they often times resist cure, and are long or ever they ●ée made whole: which note ye shall observe with all diligence and good consideration. But this patient was a man of a young 〈…〉 body, and of a very good constr●u●ion. Then 〈◊〉 (I ●●y) he was b●ought into his bed, and so orderly laid upon 〈◊〉 back, 〈…〉 being done, I visited the fracture after this manner. First 〈◊〉 made two decent towe●s, and fastened each towel●, 〈…〉 〈…〉 the 〈…〉, 〈…〉 〈…〉 other below the 
Strong 〈…〉 〈…〉 〈…〉, i ●c. 〈◊〉▪ ●ie in strong bodies but 〈◊〉 weak person● it is ●o 〈…〉 de●●●ed according to the● strength.  fracture. Th●● 〈…〉 two strong men ●o apprehend and take 〈…〉 of ●●ch towel●, end I pla●● myself very near unto the fracture: Then all things being rea●i●, I caused them 〈…〉 to extend o● stretch out the member: which being suffi 〈…〉 ● performed, I did ●l●●ate or lift up that part of the 〈◊〉 〈…〉 was depressed. And again, I did also depress down ●he other part of the fractured bone which was borne up 〈◊〉 ●●euated: which being reduced and counited together, ar●●●●hely restored, as n●●re as I could, according to natures former union, and being thus well joined, I did curiously keep close the disse●●ered bones together, and then I caused the two men which ●●●ended the member, by little and little to release the● hands, whereby the patiented found himself greatly eased of his pains, the which we did understand by his relation unto us. After this I did take a linen cloth, so large, as did not only comprehend the fracture, but also covered over some part of the whole and sound member: she which cloth I did wet in water and vinegar, and then I did syred upon the same this remedy here prescribed.  

〈…〉  Rec. ana. q. s. 

Albuminis ovorum  
Olei Rosarum  
Boli A●●oniaci  
Farinae volatilis   M●sce.  
Some excellent men do also use to wet the said clothe only in Albumine onot●●, & 〈…〉 Rosarum, ana. q. s. being well beaten 〈…〉, and afterward being compressed ●ut again, and so apply it ●●to the part affected. And I my 〈◊〉 ●aue als● approved it good: but I used th●▪ foresaid re●●die with great profit, as I have declared, and therewith I compassed the member round three or fourtimes: then with a convenient roller made of soft linen cloth, which also I wet in water and vinegar, called Posca, I did begin my roulling or ligature directly upon the fracture, and so rolled it up twice or thrice about the fracture, and then rolled it downwards, and in like manner ascending upwards again above the fracture. Then after the same order, as before, I did so roll it again with an other roller of the same breadth and length, that is to say, two yards long and four fingers broad: then according unto the good direction of Horatius Morus, and others, who saith: Your manner of rolling must neither be too strait, neither yet too lose: for by over lose binding the bones may be moved: and by too strait or over hard girding, is often hindered, and letteth the distribution of nourishment into the part, and so is hindered the engendering or breeding of the soldered humour, wherewith the bones is knit and united, which is made, as it is truly said, of good nourishment inclining to grossness. Now, to come unto the manner and order of placing of the splints, which was set upon the said roullers, which splints were made of light willow would very plain and smooth: and being blunt and round at both ends, well wrapped about, and also bolstered with tow, which I placed upon the member round the breadth of 
Sp●●nts also made with the scabbards of swords I have ●●●d, with like ●●●●ite unto 〈…〉 ent.  a finger between every splint, and sometimes further of or nearer, as cause required. Then with good strong tape I did moderately and gently bind them well together: which being done, I laid or placed the member as seemly and decently as possible might be in a double linen towel rolled up at both the ends, with a good quantity of great Rushes, such as our Chandler's use to put in their watching Candles, and I did make thereof a bed to lay or place the fractured member in, whereby he could by no means any way move his broken leg: but safely and quietly rested, as though it had been laid in that famous Instrument, called of the learned Glossocomium, which Instrument serveth to extend or to stretch out a fractured member, and also serveth for the use afore declared.  
The manner, order, and true use thereof, was first revealed and plainly showed unto divers chirurgeons of this City of London, (when I was myself in presence) by Master Doctor Foster, the Reader of the chirurgery Lector in the physicians College. And to conclude, after I had safely laid in his leg, as aforesaid, than he rested so reasonable quietly for the space of fourteen days: and then upon a sudden, without any reasonable cause known, there did begin to rise a very painful Itch, with an inflammation: then I followed the direction of Wecker, and fomented the member first with warm water, to this end and purpose that the humour which was enclosed might the more easily evaporate and breathe out: which done, I anointed the member round about with unguentum populeon, & unguentum album, ana. q. s. then I used also this plaster.  
Rec. 

Emplastri Diachalciteos ℥. viii.  
Olei Myrtillorum. ℥. j  
Succi granatorum ℥. ss.  
Albumin. ovorum nou. ij.   Misce.  
After I did roll up the member again in the same manner and order, as is before declared. And thus, by the use of these remedies, his Itch and inflammation was removed and taken away without further trouble, and in a reasonable time he was made whole also of the fracture of his thigh. And for that it stood upon me to have great care and regard of the health of this wounded man, I thought it nothing hurtful unto 
In matters ●▪ danger sh●● not to ask counsel, lest when it is too late thou do then repent thee.  my credit to require counsel: And hereunto I did divers times call (to visit my patient) my approved good friend Master Banester, whose counsel unto me herein was not a little profitable. To conclude, after I had cured and healed him, both the patiented and his friends seemed to be somewhat discontented, and used some words, but to small effect, which kind of speech is compared, by a learned man, unto mighty waters, that drown the people and doth itself no profit And forsooth the chiefest matter was (besides that they were. ●oth to part from their money) only for that his fractured leg was somewhat shorter than the other: but I told them again, that much might be done in young persons, which in aged oftentimes did not so happily fall out, as we do wish and look for. For example, calling then to mind that a few years past, a youth, being about the age of ten or eleven years, whose name was called Martin Aude, he did commonly resort unto ● Brewer's house in Bishop's gate street, where he also did dwell: In the same Brewhouse was a horsemill grinding of malt, and there this said youth, with other resorted to play, and so running about the mill after the horse, did by chance unawares go so near the mill, that suddenly the millstone did take 〈…〉 of his coat, and so did draw him into the mill, and the mi●●●ne did run over his thigh and fractured the bone Os femoris in divers pieces: then by reason of his noise and crying, the fellow that did lead the horse, very suddenly staie●, and so the mill, otherwise all his whole body had been drawn in and crushed or broken in pieces. Then I was sent for, and likewise Master George Baker, Chirurgeon: which being both together, we placed again the fractured bones, and also applied thereto convenient remedies. And so here to make an end without further circumstances, he was by us in a reasonable time perfectly c●red. And now he liveth at this day, being a very strong and lusty man, without lameness or any other imperfection of that leg. Here I will conclude this brief observation, which I have published for young practisers, which are, as I have said, favourers of learning and lovers of art, as you shall perceive by the course of my writing: but not for the learned, or men of great knowledge and experience: neither, to my remembrance, I have in this whole discourse, by bain delusions published any strange paradoxes, or new found remedies, which (as saith Erastus) a man of many great gifts, judgement and experience, who (as it is thought) was neither ambitious, nor affectioned, willeth that all such remedies should be shunned, and not used: his meaning is, except those which are well approved and best in effect, and are found plentifully described in the books of famous men which were before our time, as I have in this book many times repeated, etc.   

The cure of a Mariner, which had two of his ribs fractured or broken with a violent blow of a capsten bar in one of her majesties Ships, which bruised him very ●ore: at the same present time he was thrown down upon the carriage of a great piece of Ordnance, which bruised him again very greatly in other parts of his body: Therefore such as will take upon them to attempt the like cures, shall not utterly be deceived of their intent and purpose.  
I Think it good, without any longer discourse, so briefly as I can, here to publish and plainly express the truth of my practise in this cure, and so with all faithfulness, industry and diligence, to proceed unto the rest, for the commodity of such as are not unthankful quarrel pickers, who, in the burning flames of their wicked affections, move speeches more curious than necessary, speaking evil of good, and good of evil: whereas we are otherwise taught to embrace the good and to hate the evil: such is the nature of the wicked which delight in their ungodliness. Blame me not (good reader and loving brethren) though I speak so much, and so oftentimes, almost in every place throughout this book, of the manifold abuses of scoffers and scorners, who daily more and more increase in troops, and are puffed up, not only against 
Some dead, and some alive.  me, with most haughty, stout, and stately countenances, but also against divers good men, that are far my betters, and endued with many goodly gifts both in learning and knowledge in this a●●e of chirurgery. And I know full well, it will be hard for a man of so weak a wit, and slender capacity, to purchase any fruitful acceptation of quarreling adversaries, being so wickedly addicted. Though herein I confess myself, and my practice which I have published, to be nothing in respect, as before I have said, but that I have received from the head spring of knowledge, revealed unto us by others ●ound discourses and writings, wherein I have spent some part of my days in the reverent study and practise of the same, partly for the advancement of the art, and edification of others, being young practisers: yet could I never, until this day, once hope to be unburdened of evil speakers, specially of the rascal sort. And it is a wonder of the world to see, what blemishes or deep scars of untruths they fix in men's faces, as hereafter more at large I will declare, and yet lie continually watching to entrap with deadly pursuit, making a joyful and pleasant melody of their villainy and knavery, to the end we should win small credit of the godly: although we seek, by all means possible, good people should be no longer deceived by lewd persons, wherewith both town and country is sore pestered: unto whom I wish better grace, and that they may leave of their wicked ways, so that all good artists may be dutifully reverenced, and the lewd and ignorant suppressed, and enforced to live in honest conversation. And thus I leave them here, until I come to the conclusion, for that I have promised in my preface, not to shun any such rotten roots as they come, or chance to lie in my way. And I will now enter into the manner and order of this cure, which happened about that time when the emperors daughter passed the narrow Seas to marry with Philip King of Spain: I serving in one of her majesties Ships, it chanced then a great tempest and wind to arise, so that the waves or billows of the Sea went very lofty and high, we riding then at an Anchor near the French coast, and the Mariners being greatly busied about the winding up of their cables and Ankers: but whether it were by some 〈◊〉, or by reason of the storm and tempest, I know 〈◊〉▪ but upon a sudden the capsten turned about with great force and violence, and did bruise and hurt divers, specially one Ralph Cowdale the Bo●swaynes servant of the Ship, who had two of his ribs fractured and broken by the force of the said blow of one of the capsten bars, he was therewith thrown down upon the carriage of a great piece of Ordnance, which bruised him again in other places of his body: so the patiented did lie as a man fordead, void of sense and understanding, and whether I dressed him or not, he said he did not know. But after he was again revived, there followed perilous accidents, as a pleurisy, spitting of blood, and great dolour and pains, which (as Guido declareth) be very dangerous: and the rather for that one of his ribs was so fractured, and in such sort, that a little fragment or small piece of the rib did separate itself, and being without all hold unto any part of the rib, did continually without ceasing still torment and vex the patiented with vehement pricking upon the pannicle that covereth the ribs: neither could I bring him to any ease, until I did make incision directly upon the fracture, according unto the length of the rib, and so down unto the bone, and there I did take out that spell or fragment of the bone, which was in bigness, thickness and length like unto a Barley corn, sharp at both ends like unto the point of a needle. Then after I had made the incision, and taken out that small piece of the rib, I put into the said wound Oleum Hypericonis cum gummis, and then upon the same (after it was reduced, for the speedy vuiting or knitting together of the fractured rib) this following.  

Keble.  Rec. ana. q. s. 

Olei Rosarum  
Albuminis ovorum  
Bol. Armoniaci, &  
Farinae volatilis   Misce.  
The which I did spread upon a double cloth wet in water and vinegar, and strongly wrong out again: but you shall understand, for that there was not at that time in the Navy any one Physician to aid and assist us, I myself did give him this drink.  
Rec. 

Vini maluatici ℥. iiij.  
Olei olivarum dull. ℥. j  
Spermatisceti gra. xii.   Misce.  
After he had received this drink, within one hours space he did cast most part of this drink up again, with a good quantity of clotted blood: but at night I gave him the same drink again, and in the like manner for the space of three days, all which time he never did cast any more, but he did therewith avoid by spitting much bruised blood. And here it is to be further noted, that after the said piece of the bone of his rib was taken away, he did not complain but very little of any grief in that part, but did take as quiet rest, as a man in his case, but for that he was troubled with a cough, which he had taken before he received his hurt: and for the more speedy cure of his fractured ribs, I did give him to drink for the space of ten days morning and evening this drink following, which he did take after he was let blood, and had received a soluble purge gently to lose and cleanse the belly, for the diverting of humours, and also did partly take away his pains by the helps of local medicines here also set down. And this is the description of the said drink, the which he did take at twice being warmed.  
Rec. 

ana. ℥. ij. 

Aquae consolidae maioris &  
Aquae osmundae Regalis    
Vini albi ℥. iiij.  
Mellis come. ℥. iij.  
Succi Liquiritiae ʒ. j  
Theriacae opt. q. s.   Misce.  
Then after with good bolstering and rolling I finished this order of dressing. In the mean space I caused him to keep himself quiet, without turning or moving of his body, as time and place did permit and suffer: so he rested five days, and then I did dress him again, chief because of his wound, although in all that time he never complained of pain, and then I opened the wound and found it in a manner whole: then I dressed him as before, and let him so rest five days: the tenth day being expired, I changed my course of dressing, and used these remedies.  
Rec. 

ana. ℥. iiij. 

Emplastri Diachalciteos  
Emplastri de minio    
ana. ℥. j 

Olei Rosarum, &  
Olei Myrtillorum     Misce.  
These plasters did wholly confirm and consolidate the fracture of the ribs, and I caused him also to be anointed in certain other places of his body where he was greatly bruised, with these resolutive and dispersing medicines, etc.  
Rec. 

ana. ℥. j 

Olei Rosarum, &  
Chamaemeli.    
Olei Spermatis ℥. ss.   Misce.  
And many times likewise I used unguentum Dialthea, & Oleum Laurinum, & unguentum Vulpinum, and with this plaster following was dissolved all the contused blood under the skin.  
Rec. 

ana. ℥. ij. 

Emplastri de muscilaginibus  
Emplastri meliloti  
Emplastri flos unguentorum    
ana. ʒ. vj. 

Olei Chamaemeli, &  
Olei Rosarum     Misce.  
The fifteen day being expired, I opened the wound again, where I did find that perfectly healed, and the fracture also very apparent to have received consolidation: then I dressed him, as before is declared. And with this manner of method I cured him within the space of sixteen days. Now in the knitting up of this note or observation, briefly compact together, it is to be remembered, that in the time of this cure I used such diet as the place did afford, which was sparing enough in the highest degree, with phlebothomie, and evacuation of the belly, etc.   

The cure of a certain man that was thrust through his body with a sword, which did enter first under the cartilege or gristle, called of the learned Anatomists, mucronata cartilago, etc. The point of the sword passed thorough his body, and so out at his back, in such manner, that he which wounded the man did run his way, and did leave the sword sticking in his body: so the wounded man did with his own hands pull out the sword, whom after I cured, as shall be declared, etc.  
A Special note or observation of a certain dangerous and desperate cure worthy of admiration, which I cannot let pass, of a certain traveller into the East and West Indies, he being a very strong and valiant man, who (as I said) received a wound through his body, that entered in under Mucronato cartilago, which, by the wonderful work of God, the sword escaped the liver, stomach, and the intestines or guts, neither any evil accidents happened unto him all the time of his cure, but only the grudging of a fever, which was shortly prevented with bleeding and losing of the belly by soluble glisters. Immediately after the hurt I was brought unto this cure, and also one Master Doctor Wotton: but after I did behold the manner of his hurt, and seeing the weapon so imbrued with blood, I did in my mind greatly lament the miserable estate he was in, and I told those that were in presence that I greatly doubted there was no way of cure, but that death would presently follow: and so in truth I refused to dress him, supposing he would die under my hand. Then the wounded man desired me, as ever I loved a man, that I would dress him and take him in cure: for (said he) my heart is good, although my wound be great. Then I called to my remembrance, that Celsus (a learned man) counseleth us, that in no wise we should meddle with him that cannot be preserved, nor to deal with him that is stain already. Yet to countervail this, I had read in divers other good authors, that we ought to attempt all that may be done, either by art or reason: but first warily to foretell what danger the patiented is in, before ye shall either make or meddle with him, that ye may defend yourselves from slander of evil speakers: for (say these excellent men) many by a wonderful and marvelous manner do escape death and are cured, whereas if we shall leave the wounded man destitute of all aid and help, and then he die, we shall worthily be esteemed wicked, and without all charity and humanity, etc. But oftentimes it falleth out, that many good men are unwilling to attempt such cures, because of the frumps, quips, and taunts of those, who (as I have before said) speak evil of good, and good of evil. For if at any time it shall so fall out that some one paltering cure chance to 
Note.  escape uncured, as I have declared in other of my writings, yea though the fault be in the disorder and ill disposition of the patiented, yet a man shall get more discredit and infamous reproaches thereby, than he hath reaped credit by all the most famous cutes he hath done all the days of his life. I answer again, I suppose no man that feareth God will willingly do that which redoundeth unto his patient's hurt, and his own discredit. But we are in these days so embayed with the slanders of blind buzzards and vaunting varlets, who with the fragments or scrapings of their beggarly practises, do steal more credit for the curing of a Blayne, or a bile, a cut finger, or a k●●ed heel, than a right skilful and honest artist 
This manifest 〈…〉 needeth no witnesses.  can, or shall do with all the best cures he hath done all the days of his life. But to return, after much entreating, I presented myself unto this cure, and then with two short tents artificially made, the one before, and the other behind his back, which I applied into the wound, with Galen his powder, mixed with Hare hairs and the whites of Eggs, and with pleggets upon the said tents, and defensives round about the wound, both behind and before: and so with artificial roulling and bolstering he rested. Then forthwith I was counseled by the said Doctor and others, to give him some excellent wound drink, such as by our own practice we had approved. Then I told him of the singular virtues which I had heard and seen of a certain drink called Potus Antiochiae, which was first put in practice in London by one Master Archenbole, a very skilful Chirurgeon, which drink (as I said) is called the drink of Antiochiae, and was made then by him, and Master Yates, with others: but I have never heard, or known of a certain truth, that it was ever made before or since by any other: the more is the pity. But this present year (God willing) both myself, and (I suppose) others that knows the excellency of it will not be without it. The strange cures which the same drink hath done, it is wonderful to hear. But I do confess this wounded man was cured chief with this drink. And five years after he was made whole, he did come to London, partly to see me and to give thanks, in the presence of Master bailie, Master Beden, with others, and there again did show the places that was wounded, both where the sword went in, and where it did come forth: since which time I did never bear of him, neither do I know whether he liveth or not: so I did get, by the help of Master Beden, so much of this drink as cured the man, and the same night he was hurt, I did give him of it to drink. The manner and order of the ministering and making of it, is as followeth.  
Rec. 

ana. m. j 

Bugulae  
Fragariae  
Consolidae mediae  
Consolidae minoris  
Consolidae maioris  
Raphani rusticani  
Rubi  
Vrticae foeminae  
Osmundae 
Potus Antiochiae.   
Canabis  
Saniculae  
Crassulae  
Tanaceti  
Anagallidis masculi  
Auriculae muris  
Violarum purpurearum    
Gariophyllatae roots and leaves. m. v.  
Geranij cretici. m. v.  
Betonicae m. v. roots and leaves.  
Pedis columbini. m. iij. roots and leaves.    
Rubiae Tinctorum of the roots, the third part in weight of all the herbs before rehearsed, first wash all the herbs clean, then after stamp them in a stone mortar: which done, put them in a new earthen pot well nealed, and put in also a gallon of good white Wine: then set them on an easy fire of coals, and let it boil very gently, till the one half be consumed: then strain it into a fair clean vessel, and add to it of the best and purest clarified honey one pottle, so that there be of each an equal quantity, then boil them together (as it is said in the ancient copy) the time and space ye may say the Psalm of Mercy: which copy was written, as it is recorded, above two hundred years ago. And here ye shall understand, that I have been very diligent in attaining unto the true description of this famous drink. And I have had divers ancient copies, but none so true as those which Master Thorny did friendly send me, and also Master jarat, who hath been very willing to show me his book, wherein this drink was also described: and moreover, hath readily assisted me to give every hearh his true and proper name, which was somewhat obscure in the ancient copies, as also hath showed and found out the herbs themselves each one in his time and kind: which drink (as my author saith) must be finished and made before Midsummer. And being performed, it is to be kept in a glass vessel well stopped, and it must be given blood warm one spoonful at a time morning and evenening, first and last in well water, three spoonfuls at a time, being sodden and kept upon purpose. And I know this drink hath been used to the profit of many, after it was ten years old. As touching the rest of this cure, it was performed by local medicines, as digestives, mundificatives, incarnatives, and desiccatives, etc.  
Digestives Rec. 

Terebinthinae lotae in Aqua vitae  
Vitellorum ovorum num. ij.  
Syr. Ros. ℥. j  
Masticis ʒ. j  
Croci q. s.   Misce.  
I used at every dressing with this digestive to take of 

Olei Rosarum ℥. j  
Mel. Rosarum ℥. ss. Misce.   And dipped the tents and pleggets in it, being first made warm. After it was perfectly digested, than I did mundify it which this mundificative, and such like, etc.  
Mundificative Rec. 

Terebinthinae ℥. vj.  
Mel. Rosarum ℥. iiij.  
ana. ʒ. iiij. 

Myrrhae  
Iridis  
Aristolochiae    
Farinae hordei q. s.   Misce.  
After the wound was well cleansed, than I used this incarnative with great profit.  
Incarnative. Rec. 

Olei come. ℥. iiij.  
Cerae novae ℥. j  
Terebinthinae ℥. ss.  
Colophoniae ʒ two  
Picis graecae ʒ. j  
ana. ʒ. j 

Thuris  
Masticis    
Croci ℈. j   Misce.  
He was cured by these ordinary remedies and such like in effect, which are daily put in practice of all good artists, who have traced in the steps of the old and ancient fathers and chief masters of chirurgery. And as it was of late declared, by Master Doctor Foster, in a learned Lector, that the reason why in these days we do not attain to do those famous cures, which were done by the worthy Grecians and Arabians, and other ancient fathers, is, for that we do not use those old and ancient remedies, which they did daily put in practice, to their great credit, worship and gain.   

The cure of a young man which received a wound into the right eye with the point of a dagger.  
THere was committed unto my cure a young man wh●●● received a wound into his right eye with the poy●●● a dagger, so that Cornea, or the horny membrane ●● fall flat upon the crystal humour, by reason most part of the white humour Albumineus issued out of the wound. He had been in cure with a certain Surgeon three days, and then I was called unto the cure: I found him greatly pained with inflammation, and he had also a sharp fever, and wanted sleep, etc. for which causes, by good advise and diligent circumspection, he was appointed to be let blood, and he received also glisters, and a very thin diet was administered unto him, until all these accidents were removed. But for the more speedy mitigating of his pains, there was used in like manner upon his neck and shoulders, cupping glasses, and on his fore head and temples this repellent medicine.  
Rec. 

Emplastri Diachalciteos lib. ss.  
Olei Rosarum ℥. ij.  
ana. ℥. j 

Succi plantaginis, &  
Solani    
Albumina ou. num. ij.  
Aceti Ros. q. s.   Misce.  
And sometimes this. Rec. 

Olei Rosarum ℥. ij. ss.  
Omnium sandalorum ℥. ij.  
Bol. Armeniae ℥. ij. ss.  
Albumin. ou. num. ij.  
Vini granatorum q. s.   Misce.  
And unto his wound in the eye, I did drop in this reme●i●●●●med.  
Rec. 

Mucilag. sem. cidoniorum extractae in aquae Ros.  
ana. q. s. 

Tragaganthae  
Lactis mulieris &  
Albuminis ovi     Misce.  
Then over all I applied thick pleggets of fine towewell wet in this same next following, being also warmed a little.  
Rec. ana. q. s. 

Lactis mulieris  
Vitellorum & Albuminis ou.  
Succi semperuivi, &▪  
Olei Rosarum   Misce.  
With this manner of dressing I continued six days, I was constrained three times a day to dress his eye, and also once again at midnight's for over as the medicine did grow warm, than the inflammation and pains increased. After I had got the victory over the pain and inflammation, than there did manifestly appear a certain quantity of matter, as it were imprisoned between Cornea and Vnea, the which I did remove and take this away with:  
Rec. 

Aquae Rosarum ℥. ij.  
Vini albi. ℥. j  
Syr. Rosati solutivi ℥. ss.  
Sacchari candi ʒ. ij.  
Succifoeniculi ℥. ss.  
Albuminis ovi. q. s.   Misce.  
After the matter was removed, than I changed this course and used these remedies following, wherewith the eye was delivered from all the foresaid accidents.  
Rec. 

Tutiae praeparatae ℥. j  
Aloes cicarrinae ℥. ss. 
Guido.   
Camphorae ʒ. j  
Aquae Rosarum lib. j ss.  
Vini granatorum lib. ss.   Misce.  
Powder that which is to be powdered, and mix all these together, and seeth it upon the coals and reserve it unto your use. Last of all I finished this cure with  
Rec. ana. q. s. 

Mellis virginei  
Sacchari candi 
Wecker.   
Tutiae praeparatae &  
Aloes   Misce.  
Often I used this alone of itself, and sometimes dissolved it in Aqua Rosarum, and at sundry times I used Collerium album, Sine opio, dissolved in Lactis mulieris & aquae Rosarum, ana. q. s. and thus he was cured and healed of this wound of his eye. I could here set down other special cures of wounds in the eyes done some by myself, and some being joined with other Surgeons in this City, as Master Banester, Master Baker, with other. But this may suffice for a brief note or observation of this cure.   

The cure of a certain Clothier, dwelling near the North parts of this land, which was dangerously wounded ●oure inches in breadth above the left knee, in such sort, that the Rotula, or round bone of the knee did hang down very much: whom after I cured, as hereafter shall be declared, etc.  
NOt long since, a certain Clothier, with two of his neighbours, very early in the morning, between four and five of the clock, did take their journey from London towards the country where they did dwell. They had not travailed fully two miles, but they were set upon by certain robbers and thieves, who wounded this man very dangerously, as is before deflated, and there he was taken: but his neighbours, being better horsed, carried all their own and his money away with them, which (as it was reported) did amount together to the sum of four hundred pounds, which by that means was saved. So presently being wounded, he returned to London, unto whom I was required to go with all speed, for he had bled abundantly. Then after I had taken out the blood which was congealed in the wound, I did prepare, without tarrance, a sharp square pointed 
Blood may not be suffered in a wound. specially if it be congealed.  needle, with a strong even and smooth silk thread, well waxed, therewith I did take five stitches, one good inch and more distant between every stitch: and I did begin my first stitch in the very midst of the wound: neither did I think it good to make the stitches too thick, because it doth oftentimes stir up accidents, as pain, inflammation, etc. Neither must the stitches be set too thin, for than they will not sufficiently hold the sides of the wound together. So when I had orderly performed the stitching of the wound, leaving a decent part for the wound to purge at: them I applied thereunto Oleum Hypericonis cum gummis, and I stayed the bleeding with Galen his powder, which in such wounds I will prefer before all other. I placed moreover above the wound, a very good defensive, to repeal and keep back evil accidents from the said wound: then with good bolstering and rolling, I safely ended this first preservation. All which being thus finished, it was then demanded of me, about what time I would undertake to cure him, for they said he was a man of great trade, and did keep many poor at work, & could by no means long be absent from his business. Moreover, they would further understand of me, if I would warrant to cure him, & that without a maim or imperfection unto his traveling. To these their demands, I answered, that I would make no warrants at all, neither could I set any certain day or time when he should be whole: but I told him, I would do as much as art did permit me, to the uttermost of my knowledge and skill: And as touching the wound itself, I judged it very dangerous, but not desperate and deadly, nor yet altogether without peril, partly by reason the wound was above the knee, and there the muscles being so strangely cut at the very heads of them, and therefore in danger to be deprived, to lose the action and use of that member, for that the muscles were the instruments of voluntary moving. And moreover, the danger was the greater, because the liggaments which bind the joints, were likewise separated and cut, whereby ensueth grievous accidents, very hurtful and dangerous: which evils oftentimes foreshews present death. All which to them was small pleasure to hear, and therefore said unto me, they would consider of my sayings: and so I departed, yet expecting my coming again to the second dressing: but I was prevented, as hereafter ye shall hear: for in the mean time they had conference with many other Surgeons, and some were of mine opinion, and some were not. At the last, there was brought unto them a man, which by his own report unto them, was a great traveller, and by his diligence in traveling, he had attained unto great learning and skill in Physic and chirurgery: yet (as hereafter it shall appear) in all the whole time of his traveling, he never learned to speak well. I trust no good man will here take occasion to mislike my sayings, as some reaching wits have most injuriously 
Many good men are subject to injurious reports, the subtle seeds of envy.  imagined: for God doth know, I speak not in all this whole discourse against any good and honest Artist, whether he be traveller or not traveller. And therefore, if any carp at me as they have done, secretly and openly, know them by that mark what he is. I speak against none, but those that abuse all places where they come, and are also seducers of others, bearing the names of far traveling Surgeons, and are nothing less. I do greatly commend and do well allow, and accept of all those travelers, which by their traveling do endeavour themselves to do good in the country and Common wealth where they live and do dwell, and are favourers of those good men, which seek with all diligence to put to silence the slanderous tongue and hidden hatred of shameless abusers of the art & good Artists: who although I know they are such as be drowned in darkness, yet their poor captious heads of late keep a wonderful stir, as though they had been able to have builded Castles in the air. And I think in deed there is no way for any man to escape the venomous tongues of such malicious beasts. Now, as touching 
Commendations of certain travelers, and of their traveling  honest travelers, I read that Hypocrates himself, though he were a learned man, yet after he departed from his study, being first eighteen years of age, and brought up in the Schools of Athens: at the last he gave himself to traveling, through divers countries and kingdoms, searching (as it is said) what they did know of the nature and properties of herbs and plants, and what experience he had seen of them, that he did write down and commit to memory. It is reported, that twelve years he did thus travel: after which time he returned, and did come unto the Temple of Diana in Ephesus, where he translated all the tables of medicines that were there before prescribed many years, and put in good order that which was confused, and added many things which he had found out by experience. And he was the first that put this art in good order, as in those histories doth more at large appear.  
Now, after his good example and order of traveling, or by any other honest and lawful means, that may redound to the good of our country and Common wealth, as is before rehearsed, I do not mislike, but commend it greatly. Craving here pardon for my so many digressions, I will now return my speeches again unto the forenamed magnificent Chirurgeon. This fellow, as I said, being brought unto them, there they did signify unto him, who had preserved and dressed him, with the manner and order of his dressing, and all such speeches which I had delivered unto them, as concerning his wound, and the dangers that I said might follow. Now, in the very forefront of his talk, he said: Whatsoever I had said he esteemed it little, if the hurt were no worse than he 
Never trust a warrenter. Nor a boasting bragger. A runagate fugitive. Nor a lying quack saluer.  could conceive and gather by their talk and information, he would warrant to cure him, so that the marrow of the bone were not touched with the weapon. All these words were pleasant unto them, and very thankfully received. But to come unto the substance of this cure, (may it please the friendly Reader here to commit to thy memory, that in my absence, before I did come unto the second dressing of this wounded man, as after it was reported unto me, he did in scornful manner take off all my medicines from the wound, and likewise did most foolishly cut open all the stitches which I had made, saying unto them all, I was in a wrong box, as concerning this cure: forsooth colouring his opinion upon Marianus his author: for the fellow will be oftentimes breathless with alleging of authors, when his mouth is full of lies, who would have all wounds lie open without stitching. I answer, that all good Authors generally command to stitch wounds of necessity, otherwise it would cause a great deformity. But if he had meant small wounds in the face, etc. or bruised wounds, where the stitches will rot out, or in venomous bitings, or where the wound that is stitched tendeth to impostumation, there to cut open the stitches I hold it profitable. But to proceed, shortly after he repented when it was too late, and he was constrained to confess his fault, and (as it is said of a learned man) to excuse himself with noddies had I witted.  
So he proceeded about his business, and did power into the wound his Oil or Balm, and next applied his plaster, and then did bolster and roll it up after his own fashion and good liking: which being thus finished, he gave him in the morning to drink a most rare Quintessence: the incredible virtues of it, and the rest of his only remedies shortly you shall hear. After his dressing was thus finished, than I was sent for unto the patiented, and forthwith without delay, they did signify unto me what he had done, and that I should not need to prepare any thing for the patiented, for that was done already by one that had warranted to cure him, and that without any maim, and in a short time: for he was one that by his great learning and long trautile, had attained to such rare and singular remedies, as no other man in this part of the world had the like for their wonderful virtues. And new (say they) sith neither you, nor other more could not warrant him, we thank you for your pains, and that you told us so, and therefore we will trouble you no further at this time. Well (said I) if that be the cause I care the less: but he that is now your Chirurgeon, whatsoever he be, that hath made you all these great promises, he might yet have stayed till I had come unto you, for that you were without pain, or any other grief, so that I might have taken off mine own medicines, and to have scene in what state and manner I had left it. Then riseth out of his Chair, fleering and gering this miraculous Surgeon, gloriously glittering, like the man in the Moon, with his bracelets about his arms, therein many precious Jewels and stones of Saint Vincent his Rocks, his fingers full of rings, a silver case with Instruments hanging at his girdle, and a gilt Spatula sticking in his hat, with a Rose and a Crown fixed on the same, standing upon his comparisons, and said unto me, that he would open the wound, and if it were before my face: for (said he) my business lieth not in London, but abroad in the Country, and with such persons, that I cannot, nor will not tarry for you, nor for no other whatsoever. And now here he did begin to brag and boast, as though all the keys of knowledge did hang at his girdle. For he said, he had attained unto the deep knowledge of the making a certain Quintessence, which he learned beyond the Seas of his Master, one Bomelious, a great Magician.  
This shameless beast letted not to say, that if a man did drink of his Quintessence continually, every day a certain quantity, the virtues thereof was such, that a man should not die before the day of the great Judgement, and that it would preserve a man in that state he was in at thirty years of age, and in the same strength and force of wit, although a man were a hundred or six score years of age. Moreover, his plaster was answerable unto this, and forsooth he called it the only plaster of the world, and that he attained unto it by his great travail, cost and charge, and that it was first sent from God by an Angel unto a red hill in Almaigne, wherewas in times past a holy man which wrought great marvels only with this plaster, and he never used any other medicine but only this. His precious Balm or Oil he says no man had but only he, and t●●● it was as rare a thing to be had or found, as to see a black Swan, or a winter swallow. And he called it the secret of the world, which is his common vaunting phrase: but God knows the medicines were no such things, but only shadowed under the vizard of deceit, and a bait to steal fame and credit, and to catch or scrape up money, or ware: for all is fish that cometh into his net. Then this gaudy fellow, with his peerless speeches, 
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 must stand as ●●awe▪ for his countenance 〈◊〉 credit.  said, that he had done more good cures with his said Quintessence, his only plaster, and his precious Balm, than any one Surgeon in England had done, or could do, with all the best medicines and remedies they have. And moreover, said, that he had spoken nothing but that which he would stand to, and prove it. And that he did know that it was not necessary for us that be common Surgeons (as it pleased the bragger to call us) to use such a number of medicines as we do: for the best manner of curing (said he) consisteth not in the number and multitude of medicines, etc. In deed (said I) I know the best manner of curing consisteth not in the number and multitude of bragging words: and therefore I told him, in 
Cast away your chirurgical Instruments, your plaster boxes and saluatories, if chirurgery may as it were thus be ●ent o● thrust up in a bottle 〈◊〉 a bag.  his infected judgement, he did follow Thessalus, the ringleader of these rude and rustical reasons: For he said in like manner, if all those things which Galen had superfluously written were omitted, the art might be learned in six months. But if that (said I) were true that you speak, I suppose then the art might be learned in six days, if it did consist but only of your drink, your plaster and Balm. And therefore I told him he was deceived in his superexcellent skill, and that he was contrary unto all the best learned Authors both old and new, who have published many excellent and approved inventions, according unto the cause and nature of the effects which daily do afflict the body of man: for which causes they have set forth great variety of many singular and approved medicines: Some of them have property to repel, and some do atract: some will appease pains, and some do resolve: some do mollify: some do suppurare, and some which do mundisie: some incarnate, and some that do cicatrise and conglutinate. Tush (said he) it is not your manuists, nor your old basillicon mens practice, that is as plain as a packstaffe, can be answerable unto mine, & I will never use any other remedies, but as I have before spoken of. Then I told him moreover, that Basillicon made after some men's description, is as good an Unguent as could be used in the art of chirurgery, for so●ne causes. And here further I asked him what his meaning was by old basillicon men. He answered, it was a word which he had learned amongst 
He learned it of slanderers like unto himself, only to discredit some persons envied.  some Surgeons about London. Then I told him again, that there were in London many reverent & skilful▪ Surgeons, although perhaps some of them have been greatly abused and defaced with false accusations, by certain noisome Serpents, lewd Sycophants, and also slanderous libeling knaves, who have been rubbed on the gall for their vild tongues and abuses. Amongst which sort of galled backed Jades, one ragged colt of the same breed (which never wise man thought to be worth the drawing out of the mire) having as he openly showed a guilty conscience, and would needs, forsooth, thrust himself in to make one of that number, and being somewhat purblind, played the part of Will Summer, taking Rowland for Oliver, did strike him that was next him. But of this motlicote and the rest, who now like scrich Owls, hide themselves in dens and deserts for fear of the light, and so to be known. And of such wicked and ungodly false speakers and 
The fruits of shameless malice.  backbiters, we shall say more of them at large hereafter, if time serveth. The which to do I would be loath if the persons were modest: but here is no hope in them, because they are impudent: and yet God doth know, I had rather derogate from my own labours, than I would deface others without just cause: for that charity forbiddeth to publish any man in print, to the hurt of his good name and credit. But as for these factious fellows, possessed with the cursed spirit of envy, scornfulness and disdain. Notwithstanding their picked speeches, as smooth as a Slickstone, I think them, whatsoever they be, ●●fi● members, to shroud themselves under the rouffe of any good or godly society: for all such hateful persons, with their devouring tongues, may be compared unto furious Dogs, which always bite and bark at stones. But these despiteful and envious persons have never spared any whatsoever: For I read that Plato, though he were a great learned Philosopher, doth confess, that he was never at any time in such hazard and peril of his life, being in arms at the besieging of Corinth, amongst his known enemies, as he was in Greece by Xenophon, and other his own scholars his supposed friends. And the only cause hereof, as it is said, was hatred and envy: truly it had been good for such untimely fruit if they had perished in the blossom. But all those whose ungodly behaviour is so treacherous unto their good friends, can by no means possible be trusty and faithful unto men, of whom they have never been beholding unto for benefits received. This may seem strange, chief unto those godly persons, which have never been vexed, troubled or molested, with the perilous storms and tempests of such unknown pernicious libellours, which have opposed themselves, and have privily spread abroad false libels, rumours and slanderous reports, hoping to enjoy the fruits of their labours. They have ventured to make shipwreck of other men's good names and credit: so that it is unknown unto me, as yet, what thing a man can so well do, or what life he should lead, but that these beastlike men would take occasion by surmising of evil, to quarrel or cavil at it. And I suppose, if time and opportunity did serve, their cunning conveyance is such, though now perhaps they will for a time lurk and ●●ere, like fraudulent 
Beware of ●●aude in friendly looks.  Foxes, and disemble with the crafty Crocodile: yet is their natural inclination at all times comparable in cruelty unto the furious and merciless Tiger, or Tigers whelps: which evils are infinite and hard to be avoided: as histories witness of the one, so experience daily manifesteth the other. A matter of such importance, and in my judgement, a thing not to be permitted or suffered in any good government or Christian common wealth. But to leave these pestilent wée●● and ofscommes of the earth, and to return unto my former matter, from the which I have digressed. And here it is to be noted, that I departed from the aforesaid bragging counterfeit, and fountain of mischief, and as I think, the only scoffer and scorner of the world, who defaced some good men that were absent, and extolled such as was like unto himself: but within seven days after, where he promised a mountain, it proved a molehill. And his precious medicines of such great admiration that would do all things, did here receive a marvelous disgrace. For they could not work that effect he looked for: and he that was afore a secret supporter of the Trumpets of sedition, & a deceiver of others, by procuring of domestical hatred, now he is, as it were, glad to creep & crawl away by owl light, praying them most humbly to hold him excused, & to speak the best of him. And why▪ forsooth he was presently to go into the country to attend upon no small 
Note.  parsonage, & there of force he must remain during pleasure. A stolen blind shift, hatched up in the dungeon of deceit, as easy to be espied, as the nose on a man's face. Now again, he whose ignorance was shadowed with impudency, and maliciously hidden under smooth and fair promises, and glorious boastings, and by that means, at his own pleasure, would lay heavy slanderous burdens upon other men's shoulders, is himself found out, and his own doings hath bewrayed himself what he is. But it is a most true saying of a learned man: If our ancient fathers in times past should have been abashed at the ingratitude and ill disposition of such hateful abusers, we should at this day have been in profound ignorance, 
To be hated for doing of good, is not to be esteemed▪ but to be reproved for evil, is the reward of evil.  and little difference between us and brute bea●●es. To make here an end of this cozener, it was given me to understand, that shortly after his departure out of London, he had intelligence by some of his stragglers, that the cure was committed again into my hands: and he also hearing by them, that I had promised to note his abuses, and did mean to display his doings unto the world: For which cause he was malcontent, & conceived a great displeasure & indignation against me, & said, I did but heap coals upon mine own head: and therefore he, or some other of his breed, should very shortly, either by book, letter, or libel deal against me in disdainful manner: as did heretofore some such like crafty Crowders, void of humanity, or the good graces of God, whereby they made themselves known of what sect they were. Their meaning in deed was to pinch me privily, so that hereafter, they imagined, I should be afraid to publish, or to touch their fraudulent dealings openly, because of their railing & lying speeches, wherewith they have pursued me with all malice. But be it known unto all such brazen faced rascals, whatsoever they be, either of town or country, I little esteem of them, they do but lay abroad their own nakedness unto the world, and it is corespondent unto the course of their life, which in the end will prove unto themselves little praise, less profit or benefit.  
And now finally to return and end, and so to come unto the cure, here you shall understand, the seventh day being expired, at six of the clock at night I was sent for, and very earnestly requested that I would take the pains to come again and to speak with the patiented. And to say the truth, he said unto me, with no small grief of mind: now I perceive the difference between such hateful abusers of your art, and other good men: nevertheless, I pray you to hold me excused, for that lewd fellow that hath hid his head and gone his way, and hath left me in this miserable case, he was first commended unto me by friends of mine, which did give me to understand, where he had done a great cure upon a gentleman that lay about the Strand, which gentleman after he brought unto me, but his hurt was but a scratch in respect of my wound. But if it were true (quoth he) that he had ever done the like cure, yet I perceive, for all his unsavoury eloquence, one Swallow makes no Summer: and unto me (saith he) he hath showed himself to be one of the vilest wretches that liveth, and the deepest disembler: with other speeches had according to his life and living. And now to come (as I said) unto the cure, the seventh day being expired, at night it was strange to see, that the wound, which at the first he found without pain, or any other evil accidents, should in so short a time be so oppressed with the abundance of evil humours, which did offend both in quantity and quality: notwithstanding his celestial Quintessence, his only plaster, and precious Balm, of such great efficacy, whose virtues at the first, he did persuade, could not be comprehended in few words. Although he had a very apt and able wit, and thereby did open the gates into the wide fields of his magnificent skill, as I have before rehearsed, yet did he leave his work filthy and unclean, like unto himself. But so near as I could, I did follow nature as our guide, and applied unto the grief such mild and familiar remedies, as are here set down, the which I used until the foresaid accidents did decay and vanish away, and after cured him as followeth.  
A Fomentation.  
Rec. 

Vini albi lib. ij.  
Aquae vitae ℥. iij.  
ana. ℥. j 

Myrrhae &  
Aloes    
Resinae pini ℥. iiij.   Misce.  
All these were boiled over a Chaffingdish of coals, and with warm stuphes I fomented and bathed the wound.  
Rec. 

Terebinthinae lotae in Aqua vitae ℥. vj.  
Vitellorum ovorum nu. ij.  
Olei Hypericonis ℥. j  
Olei Lumbricorum ℥. j ss.  
Mel. Rosarum ℥. ij.  
Masticis ℥. ss.  
Hordei q. s.  
Croci ℈. j   Misce.  
With the said digestive I also used this decocted Balm, which did take great effect in this cure, being used with the same digestive:  

A singular decocted Oil or Balm.  Rec. 

ana. ℥. iiij. ss. 

Olei Terebinthinae  
Olei Rosarum    
ana. ℥. iij. 

Olei Lumbricorum  
Olei Masticis    
Olei Sem. lini ℥. iij. ss.  
Vermium terrestrium ℥. j  
Terebinthinae clarae ℥. iiij.  
ana. ℥. ss. 

Masticis  
My●●hae    
ana. ʒ. ij. ss. 

Gummi elemni  
Ammoniaci    
Sarcocollae ʒ. j  
Croci ℈. j   Misce.  
Let your Gums be dissolved in vinegar, and then add thereunto Centaurij maioris, m. j After the herbs be bruised, boil all together in a fair vessel until it come to perfection, and ten days after set it in the Sun, & for wounds in the sinews and joints it is approved to be marvelous good, as it was well approved in this cure, with other. After I had first dipped the pleggets armed with the digestive in the said Balm, than I laid thereupon:  

Emplastrum T●●●pharmacum. M●s●●.  Rec. 

ana. lib. j 

Lithargyrij subtilissime triti  
Aceti vini    
Olei veteris lib. ij..   Fiat Emplastrum secundum artem  
And then I anointed the member round about the wound with Olei papaveris, & Olei Rosarum, ana. ℥. j Misce. Which being performed and done, than I laid over all this Cataplasm, and so rolled it up according to art.  

Cataplasma Clowes.  Rec. 

ana. m. ij. 

Fol. Ros.  
Maluarum  
Violarum    
ana. m. j 

Florum Chamaemeli &  
Meliloti    
Lactucae m. ss.   Boil all these in sufficient quantity of milk, and when they be tender, stamp them, and then take: 

Rad. altheae m. ij.  
Sem. lini m. j  
Sem. Foenugraeci m. ss. Misce.   Make hereof a Mucilage with white wine and water, then put in of this mucilage ℥. vi. and mix all together, than lastly add: 

Vnguenti populeonis ℥. ij.  
ana. ℥ j ss. 

Olei Ros. &  
Olei Chamaemeli    
Medullae panis. m. j  
Farinae hordei q. s.  
Vitellorum ovorum num. ij.  
Croci ʒ. ss.   Misce, & fiat Cataplasma.  
Thus by this manner and order of curing, with convenient diet, purging and phlebothomie, in a reasonable time his extreme 
Dolour and pa●nesis as it were a ventose or cupping glass, in drawing matter to the affected place.  taging pains was greatly appeased, and the inflammation ceased. After that the wound did tend towards digestcon, and the patiented again well comforted, then because the wound was very large and wide one part from another, I did frame certain dry stitches, which greatly pleasured him, in bringing the borders and sides of the wound together, and all the accidents being removed, I left off the Cataplasma, and in the place thereof I used Emplastrum Diachalciteos, dissolved in Oleo Rosarum, & Oleo Myrtilorum, etc. And sometimes in like manner I used for a defensive to take of Albuminis ovorum, & Alluminis Rochi, made in very fi●e powder, & so well laboured together, ana. q. s. and applied it about the member, and it did also profit us very mu●●: since which ●●●e I have seen it often put in use in the 〈…〉 C●●ntries for a common defensive for all wounds 〈…〉 which gu●●●ot, by one Audrian, Grave Hollocks Chirurgeon, a very learned and skilful man, which thing is also very well known to be true by Master Goodrouse, one of her majesties Surgeons, with others. And after I did leave the use of the digestives, in the place thereof I applied unguentum apij, sometimes mixed with the yolk of an egg, and also unguentum Resinae, a notable unguent for wounds 〈◊〉 the joints, which unguents are before in this book described. And herewith I in like manner used the aforesaid decocted Balm ℥. two. and added also therewith of Lipsius ℥. i. Misce.  
This excellent mundisicative stayed also the thin glynteg humour that flowed from the joint: which remedies be published in Folio 70. But by reason there of some oversight, the doses are left out, with other faults in the forepart of the book, which passed unawares, and cannot be helped until the next impression.  
Rec. 

Mellis come. lib. ij.  
Vitrioli albi ℥. iiij.  
Succi caprifolij lib. iij. Misce.    
The order of making is before described. Now, after the wound was perfectly mundified, and all accidents removed, then by the counsel of a learned man, both in Physic and Chirurgery, I was required to used unguentum Nicotianun, which (he said) had wrought wonders above belief. But I found not that effect in it that he and I looked for. Nevertheless, I acknowledge it to be a medicine not to be dispraised. But this Unguent, since it was first known, is greatly bettered by josephus Quercetanus, with others: so I left of the use of unguentum Nicotianun, after this description here following. And I used with great profit unto the patiented unguentum Basilicon magistrale, hereafter also published.  
Rec. Fol. Nicotiani lib. j  
Let the leaves be well stamped, and after strained out, as strongly as possible may be, then add thereunto: 

ana. ℥. iij.  
Cerae novae  
Resinae &  
Olei come▪    
Let all these boil together unto the consumption of the juice, then add Terebinthinae Venetae ℥. iij. Boil all together a little, and reserve it unto your use.  

unguentum Basilicon magistrale.  Rec. 

ana. ℥. ij. 

Olei Chamaemeli  
Olei Ros. completi    
ana. ℥. j ss. 

Olei masticis  
Olei de Terebinthina  
Olei de semin. lini    
Terebin. clarissimae ℥ four  
ana. ℥. ij. ss. 

Sepi vitulin.  
Castrati  
Hirci    
ana. m. j 

Rosmarini  
Betonicae  
Caudae equinae  
Centaureae maior.    
Vermium terestrium lotorum cum vino ℥ three  
Rubiae tinctorum a little bruised. ʒ ten  
ana. m. j 

Hypericonis, foliorum &  
Sem.    
ana. ʒ. x. 

Masticis  
Gummi elemni    
ana. ℥. j ss. 

Picis navalis  
Resinae pini recentis    
ana. ʒ. iij. 

Serapini  
Galbani  
Armoniaci     Misce.  
Dissolve these three● Gums in vinegar, and bruise the other things, and so let them rest, and after boylethem all together with a ciath of odoriferous wine, then strain them strongly, and put to the said straining 

ana. ℥. ij. ss. 

Lithargyrij auri, &  
Argentei    
Minij ℥. ij.   Misce.  
Boil these together again with a soft fire: afterward ye shall augment the fire until the said ointment be black in colour: which done, make hereof an unguent with sufficient new wax, etc. This unguent is commended of Vigo, and many other excellent men, to be singular good for all wounds of the sinews: and also in other wounds it is of marvelous efficacy. And sith it is thus manifest unto our eyes, that many famous cures hath been done by this worthy unguent, truly I see no cause why we should withdraw ourselves, and to leave the use of it. Now here it is to be noted, if in all this time the flesh offered to rise spongeous, than I did rebate and take it away with Mercury precipitate, and sometimes with alum combust in Aceto Ros. And with the said unguents I also used this approved Oil, called Oleum Aparisij.  

Oleum Aparisij. Note this for a special Oil for all wounds generally.  Rec. 

Olei communis veteris lib. iij.  
Terebinthinae Abietinae lib. ij.  
Vini albi veteris & electi lib. ss.  
Olibani triti lib. ss.  
Frumenti purgati ℥. iiij. vel ℥. vj.  
Hypericonis lib. ss.  
ana. ℥. iiij. 

Valerianae  
Cardui Benedicti     Misce.  
Infuse the herbs, being bruised, in white wine six or eight hours, then add thereto the wheat and oil, and so melt them at an easy fire, to the consumption of the wine. After strain them, and then put to the Turpentine and Olibanum, and so boil it at a soft fire to perfection. I was greatly troubled in the drying or skinning up of his wound, notwithstanding the use of unguentum desiccatiuum, & unguentum deminio, or any other whatsoever, until I had used therewith this remedy following.  
Rec. 

Aquae vitae ℥. iiij.  
Alluminis ʒ. iij.  
Camphorae ʒ. j ss.   Misce.  
Thus by God's help and good medicines, I finished this cure with desiccatives and Conglutinatives, and he was again recovered: but the motion perished, for he had the imperfection of a stiff knee, which constrained him to use a leather strappe fastened unto the toe of his shoe, and again made fast unto his body, and so he remaineth until this day.  
Here were time and place to induce me to publish many other observations, but I will not willingly molest the Reader with being too tedious. And I do confess, I have showed my myself to be more willing, then able to perform this work I have taken in hand. Nevertheless, I wish you much joy and felicity in all your studies, with increase of knowledge, whereby you may advance your fame, and credit unto your Art and profession, Amen.  

Apply thyself and use thy wit,  
to Lady learning's lore,  
She'll garnish thee with wisdom great,  
and knowledge more and more.    

The conclusion, of a wicked brood of beastly abusers of Physic and chirurgery, daily more and more increasing, to the utter undoing of many: as here briefly shall be declared.  
IN this my collection (gentle and virtuous reader) I mean by God's permission, and your courteous patience, here truly and faithfully to deliver unto thy view, the manifold and injurious abuses of a disordered number of proulling women, daily practising Physic and chirurgery, within this City of London, and the liberties of the same, whose knowledge and judgements (I say) is fallible and uncertain, whereby they are the causes of many hidden mischiefs. Therefore, without further protestation, I will as briefly as I can for examples sake, as it were, point at a few, in respect of the rest: which abusers are bred and crept in amongst us through sufferance, with whom, notwithstanding I must be temperate and mild in this my writing, and not to speak all I know: for their number is great, and they have many friends that spread their fame far. There is (I say) known to be in London, which daily do practise chirurgery, of strange women borne beyond the seas, called of some, cunning or wise women, more in number, than there are of Surgeons lawfully allowed and admitted, according unto the laws and statutes of this Realm, being fit men to do her Majesty service in their Arte. There be also in like manner at this present to be found in London, besides those aforesaid, of our own Country women, that hath neither wit, nor art, which daily practice Physic and chirurgery, I will say little of their dealing in Physic, because it is also openly known, far more in number then there is of the strange women. But all these abusers practise chirurgery, without any penalty and punishment, and the most part of these have husbands of divers honest trades and occupations, and thereby are very well able to live and maintain themselves, according to their calling. Yet all that will not serve the turn: for my good mistress his wife, will needs become a Physician and a Surgeon: and (forsooth) he must follow her presumptuous mind to paint her out in s●●kes & velvets in the highest 
Such 〈◊〉 〈…〉 cannot be enough ●poke● of.  degree: for that carrieth credit to her cunning, and brings in money plentifully. A thing greatly to be lamented, or rather pitied, that these blind and ignorant women should be thus fostered and suffered: for they are and will be the causers of many evils, whereby her Majesty shall have great want of sufficient and skilful Surgeons to be found in England able to do service in the time of wars. And unless God of his merciful goodness do move the hearts of godly Magistrates for sp●●●● redress, they will be the only overthrow of Chi 〈…〉 in this land. For it is come to pass at this day, 〈…〉 ●●n being of any credit or account, that hath brought 〈…〉 in learning, the which is greatly to be required in a good Chirurgeon, but he refuseth to put him to be an apprentice unto the Art of Surgery. And why? Because there are in these days, in town and country, such a number of abusers that practise chirurgery, which are the only doers and cause of all these evils. It may seem uncredible, that there is not at this present time of sufficient and able Surgeons to be found in London, scarce half the number which were lately employed, in her majesties service, with General Norice & Sir France's Drake: And yet the greater fort of those that are gone, are very poor men, and so poor in deed, that some of them went out very slenderly furnished: some with a little chirurgery stuff in a scholars satchel: other some in budgets, & bags, being very unfit furniture to serve in her majesties service. Unfortunate and unhappy shall that Soldier be, that tasteth of these Surgeon's wants. And the chief causers of these evils, are those abusers aforesaid. Moreover, what a pitiful thing is it to hear, that at their departure from their poor wives and children, leaving them in such extreme necessity, 〈…〉 they arrived at the first Port, their wives and children complained, and craved to have some succour & relief. But who hath succoured or relieved them, that is best known to themselves. And if their necessity be such at their going out, what will be their state in time? Or else, if by fortune of wars some of them be cut off, than these poor women and children may live in great misery. And the causers of these evilis be these abusers, aforesaid. Also I cannot in this place pass over in silence, sith it is come 
Disordered shifters and abusers of chirurgery.  unto my memory, a new litter of abusers of Surgery, and the professors thereof, and they are start out of their kennel of late, devising amongst themselves a trade never seen, nor heard on before: and these do hunt after hurt and wounded met, and all other persons whatsoever, be it master or mistress, manservant or maid, etc. if they be affected with any kind of grief belonging to Surgery. With all such persons they will take acquaintance, although (peradventure) they never saw some of them afore: and then like pettifoggers, or counterfeit brokers, craftily will inquire what Surgeon looketh on them: and if they say they are unprovided, than they will cast a figure, & offer them their service presently to fetch the only man in the town. This proffered service many takes very kindly, and promising to acquit his courtesy if he will perform his sayings. Then without further ado, packs away this pettifogger, devising where he may make his best market. And in the end, finding a fit man for his purpose, he gins to babble for his brokerige after this manner. There is a friend of mine (saith he) and one of my old acquaintance is wounded and hurt, etc. and for very good will I am come to you before another, because I know you are a skilful man. Nevertheless, I am a good fellow, as you know, and therefore I will look to have a share for my pains, because I bring the cure unto you. What is your meaning? (saith he) It is thus, if you do make three pounds of the cure, I will then have of it twenty shillings, and you shall have twenty shillings towards your medicines, and twenty shillings more for your pains: and yet you may say I do befriend you: for I have had divers times the one half of others. An old saying, need makes the old wife troth: The good man had rather give part of the fruits of his labour unto this proulling fellow, wherein he hath no right, than he would sit still, and want to sustain himself and his family. These injuries are most grievous that bring thus with them innumerable of inconveniences. And remedy there is none to bridle such pillars and poullers. O Lord, what a sort of these evils follow immediately one after another! Consider, I beseech you, how chirurgery in these days is promoted & advanced, when such men, which have a long time practised this profession with credit and good liking, are constrained, for want of maintenance, to give over the Art clean, and now forced to live by other kind of trades. And the causers of all these abuses, are the abusers in this book published.  
Thus courteous and loving Reader, I have waded into the very bottom of mine ability, but yet I confess I still find nothing answerable unto my well meaning: yet always I rest in this hope, that that which I have here in all my discourse spoken without offence unto any good man, may the easilier be passed over without any grief to me at all: but if any do here at pick quarrels, or malign my doings, mark them well (as I have before said) and you shall perceive them to be some of those galdbacke Jades which I have touched to the quick.  
Now last of all, only it resteth, that if it shall please God that these my labours be so happy, as to content my loving patrons (I mean, all the true professors of chirurgery wheresoever) referring the view unto their good considerations, censures, and judgements, expecting all your friendly supportation: and thus I leave you in the Lord, who knoweth that all our labours are done in vain, except he in mercy prosper them.  
Amen.   
Finis  
William Clowes, Master in chirurgery.   


When valiant Mars, with brave & warlike band,  
In fought field with sword & shield doth stand,  
May there be missed a Surgeon that is good,  
To salve your wounds, and eke to stay your blood▪   

To cure you sure he will have watchful eye,  
And with such wights he means to live and die,  
So that again you must augment his store,  
And having this, he will request no more.   

THE SURGEONES CHEST    


With willing mind good Reader I thee crave,  
To weigh the toil, and careful pains men have  
Which once gins to do such Works as this,  
May sometimes err, and run his pen amiss.   
 depiction of surgical instruments   


With heart I crave, read, view and see,  
If better you have, impart it with me.   

Now slanderer say thy worst,  
with malice and defame:  
In God I only trust,  
all glory to his name.   
 depiction of surgical instruments   

A TREATISE OF THE FRENCH POCKS, WRITTEN by john Almenar a Spanish Physician.  

Chap. 1. Of the beginning and definition of this disease.  
IT is concluded by certain wise men, that this disease which amongst the Italians is called Gallicus, that is to say, the French disease, should now be named Patursa, which is by interpretation, a disease filthy and saturnal. It is a filthy disease, because it maketh women to be esteemed unchaste, and irreligious. It is saturnal, because it took the beginning from Saturn when he entered into Aries, having the rest of the heavenly aspects helping thereunto. And albeit that influence have ceased, it is not necessary that the disease should cease, because many infected bodies remained, whereby others have been infected: Hereof it may be concluded, that this disease shall continue many years, and therefore let men take heed that by other men's example it may be said of them: Happy is he whom others danger make wary. The disposition which proceeded of the celestial influence making impression into the bodies, did burn the humours in respect of Aries, which sign is hot and dry, and after this burning cold and dry humours were engendered on Saturn's part, which sign is by nature cold and dry. These cold and dry or melancholic humours carried to divers places bring divers pains, and in the skin bring forth divers kinds of pustles or weals. It may be thus defined. The French Pocks or 
The Defini●●●●  Patursa is an universal or popular ill disposition in the parts of the body, consisting principally in the liver and veins, and their humours, whereof ensue these accidents, to wit, pains and weals in all the body. The efficient cause is touched, when it is called universal or popular, that is, proceeding from the influence of the heavens: the formal, when it is called an evil disposition: the material, when it is said to be in the parts: Also the difference is touched, when it is said that pains do ensue it, etc. Concerning the end, the bodily Physician intermeddleth not: but the spiritual Physicians affirm them to be sent for the punishment of sin. Wherefore they which would be delivered, and escape this, let them take heed of sin, and apply their minds to God: for only God cureth infirmities, as Mesues saith in his treatise 
〈◊〉.  de Appropriatis. Of this definition do follow many and profitable consequences. First, that this disease is one, and not many, as some have insufficiently affirmed, because there could not be given one definition of it, neither had it always one only efficient cause, neither would one kind of cure agree, neither had it one name: which is absurd, as partly hath appeared already, and shall more plainly be showed hereafter. The second consequence is, that they are deceived, which think they have found the head or fountains of this disease, to be the pain in the joints and pustles in the face, because the former definition agreeth not unto them. Moreover, all the pains are not in the joints, neither are all the weals like red pustles in the face. Therefore neither this disease nor the cure of it can be referred unto them, as it shall be hereafter showed. The third consequence, that they which cure only weals, or only look to the pains, do cure imperfectly. For who can cure perfectly the headache, or the dryness of the tongue, or thirst, which come from a Fever, unless he first ●●●e the Fever. For the accident followeth the disease, as the shadow doth the body, Gal. lib. 3. de accident. And therefore the pains cannot be cured as the pustles, except the disease be first cured, because these are either accidents, or conjoined sicknesses, which follow the principal, and do presuppose, it must be first cured, as Avicen testifieth tract. 1. sen. 3. and in many places. The fourth consequent, if any do join the cure of the Empirics with those which think they cure orderly, as the anointing of the Empirics, and the purging of the Physicians, yet the cure is insufficient, because by those medicines the ill complexion which is fixed in the parts cannot be removed. And this was the cause, that many have thought themselves cured, when they were not. And if any have been cared, it was, by reason that the humours were thoroughly purged by solutive medicines and unctions: which avoided, nature was stronger and superior to the disease and that evil complexion, and expelled it. This had not so fallen out, except the nature had been strong, and the impression little: but where the strength was weak, and the impression strong, this disease could not be expelled. This difference in the strength of nature, and the impression hath been the cause, that some have been cured without medicines, some with medicines, others could not by any means be cured. Now we will show that way which both reason and experience hath taught to heal all, not only by removing with medicines the humour which procureth actual pain and pustles, and hath ability prepared to the same, but also that evil complexion which infecteth the humours (they being first purged) as order requireth, wherein the treasure of this cure consisteth. I could infer many other consequences, but because it is tedious to use many words in things not available to the cure (as Galen saith) 1. de regim. acut. This shallbe sufficient. It remaineth to determine of the causes.   

Of the causes of the french Pocks. Chap. 2.  
THere is a twofold kind of causes, because some are first, some corporal: and those of two sorts, partly antecedent, partly conjoined. That which is first, or original in this disease, is twofold, whereof the first is the only influence or corruption of the air, from whence we must charitably think, that it infected those which were religious. The second is conversation, as by kissing, and sucking, as appeareth in children, or by carnal copulation, as it hath happened to many, & very often, but by other means, and chief by the influence or corruption of the air, very seldom. It may be also caused by other means of conversation, which I leave to thy consideration. It is sufficient to know by experience, that this disease is contagious, and by probability of reason wherein it is like to other contagious diseases, it may be so accounted. Hereupon Avicen saith in the 2. of his 1. concluding his treatise of the dispositions of sicknesses. Some there are which pass from one to another, as the leprosy, Seabs', Pocks, pestilent Fevers, rotten apostemes. Now of the autecedent causes, there are four kinds, as there are four humours, which may be the matter of this disease through their ill disposition, whereby they are apt to receive the impression hereof: to wit, blood, choler, phlegm, melancholy. The conjoined cause is double, one is the cause of the disease, and it is the humour which being first infected or altered by the original causes, infecteth the parts and other humours, and therefore it is said, the first original causes move the antecedent. But the coujoined cause of the accidents is that h●●●● which immediately procureth pains and whea●es. But here it may be demanded, whether the evil mollitie in the humour, which is the autecedent cause, may be a disease. It seemeth it cannot, sith a disease affecteth a li●●●g thing, but the humour liveth not. Whereto it may be answered, that the humour which is in the liver and veins▪ infected with this evil quality, may be the subject of a disease, so it be granted that that ill quality have not attainted the part, because it may hinder digestion in the liver and veins, and engender corrupt humours: therefore by the definition of a disease, it appeareth to be a disease. Now to the argument, it is answered, that it is sufficient that a living thing be the subject of denomination, or be that which is named diseased, it must not be that wherein the disease is settled, yea that is most stable, that the humour is the subject wherein the disease is settled. And if it be said, how can the humour be an antecedent cause, and yet a disease be in it as in a subject. I answer, it is an antecedent in respect of the pains and pustles, because it is apt to flow to the places of pain and pustles: it is a conjoined cause, in as much as it causeth an ill complexion in the member: it is the subject of a disease, in respect it hath a disposition, whereby the action of the member is hurt, whereupon it is called diseased. If you consider these things well, you shall comprehend all the difficulties which may be incident to the definition.   

Of the signs of the french Pocks. Chap. 3.  
THe signs are, hurt in the yard, especially corroding, heaviness of the head, and pain in the neck, which by little and little are spread towards the shoulders and spade bones to the joints, first in the arms, then in the legs, and sometime in the muscles and sinews which are in those parts, the pain increaseth in the night, and decreaseth in the day. The cause is, that nature is then retired home, and stronger, as also in regard of the moistness and coldness of the night, the matter is increased. In the day, nature is drawn from the sense hereof, and doth not so much move the humours, partly being weak, partly occupied in other actions. I will show the signs of the causes respecting the pain and pustles, as others also in the tree of signs hereafter set down. If the pain be sharp, and quickly arising, and the pustles little, of a citron colour, ulcerated, and the skin rough, they come of choler. If the pain do slowly come forth, the pustles broad & whitish, they are of phlegm. If they have great itching, and some heat, they proceed of salt phlegm. If they be black and small, not very painful, they are of melancholy. If they be red, and not painful, they are of blood. You shall find these sigues intermeddled if you view others: for as corruption seldom happeneth in one only humour (saith Galen. 1. regim. acut.) even so you shall seldom find the signs foretelling one only humour. Therefore you must gather all the signs in your mind, and comparing them together, attain to that which is principal, and according to that humour dispose your cure.  

The Prognostications.  
Melancholic persons are most fit for this disease in regard of their likeness, according to Aristotle. 2. de generat. Things which have affinity, do easily change. Auicenna saith, 21. There is an easier conversion into proportionable things, then into contraries. They especially are apt which are melancholic by burnt choler, then choleric: thirdly, sanguine persons through the abundance of their humours: Phlegmatic persons are least subject. Amongst these, they which have thin bodies are apt, but especially such as are full of ill humours, and use melancholic meats, as pulse, old flesh, and such like. When this disease is new, it is curable, but when it is old, it is hardly cured, and the older the worse, because that ill disposition taketh deeper root. Therefore they which have this disease, let them seek present remedy. They which have many pustles and little pains, are more easily cured than they which have the contrary. They which have nodes or knots, are more hardly healed. Young persons (if other things concur) are more easily cured then others: whereupon Galen saith, It is not possible that the aged should be healed rather than youth. 2. prognost. It remaineth to speak of the true.    

Of the cure of the French Pocks. Chap. 4.  
WE suppose the cure of this disease to consist in these 7. things. First, in solublenesse: second, by diminutive purging: thirdly, digestion of the matter: four, perfect purging: fifthly, alteration of the parts: sixtly, comforting of them: seventhly, correcting the accidents. But because an error committed in the six things not natural doth more hurt, according to Serapion 5. practicae 2. Cap. And Avicen saith, that every ill complexion is not cured by the contrary, but good diet many times sufficeth: therefore first we must set down the order in the ●●xe things not natural. Whereupon, albeit they which are sound, keep order, yet that is called conseruatine, and this curative. Sithence therefore all cure is by contraries according to Galen 3. Artis. and Avicen 4. 1. and this disease is very dry, the order of diet must be inclining to moistness. And because in regard of the essence it is hot, coming of adustion, and in respect of the humours cold, because the humours are cold and dry: the order in things active must be temperate, and in passive must incline to moisture. And although in consideration of opening, digesting, and attenuating the humours, it is requisite to appoint hot things, nevertheless there must be mingled with them cold, and comfortable to the liver and veins. Therefore in active things let the air incline to heat, but in passive let it be wholly moist. Let it be sweet, and moved with the wind. In Summer this may be done by strowing the leaves of Willow, Umes, flags, Rushes, Roses, Violets, mingling Bays with them and other sweet herbs, and sprinkling them with water. In meat and drink the diet must not be slender. For Hippoc. saith: Thin and straight diet in long diseases, are hardly endured. Let therefore his bread be neither hot, nor above three days old, well sodden and leavened. His Wine white, clear, of a mean temper between sweet and harsh, mixed with sodden water, or with the water of bugloss, borage, and such like, especially in the declining of the disease, for at other times much matter might be carried to the places affected. Therefore if there be variable pains, let him drink Claret Wine until the declining. Let his flesh be Capenets, fleshy, but not fat, and Chickens, ●idde, Veal, Lamb of a year old: the flesh of Pheasant, Partridge, and little Birds, although they may be permitted, yet household flesh is better, because it is more moist. Amongst Fishes, may be allowed such as live in rocks, have scales, live in good water, and of them may be a dish prepared with Almond milk, the cummin seeds, and a barley ptisane. Amongst Herbs, Borage and bugloss are the best, according to the old verse.  

Borage good, how sweet is thy food:  
Thou art green ever, decaying never:  
Borage doth say, I rejoice always.   
Also spinach, and in process of time, fennel, Parsley ●ingled with Lettuce and spinach, and of these herbs and cychory may be made a salad with vinegar of Grapes. All pulse and herbs (except chiches) are to be avoided. All meat made of Milk must be eschewed, yet perhaps Milk may be permitted, if the liver be not inflamed, nor stomach, so that the corruption of it is suspected. Hereupon, saith Auicenna, in the cure of the Leprosy, Milk is one of the fittest medicines. Now in respect of the affinity this disease hath with that, it may be herein permitted. Sodden or potched Eggs agree well. Spices to comfort, but very little, and especially cinnamon may be granted, therefore this powder may be used in meat: Take Caroway seeds, Amss●eds, Ameos, Parsley, Smalladge, Marjoram, Betony, Cummin, Calamint, Penniroiall, Hyssop, Spicknard, P●pper, of each ℥. i. Maioram, Balm, basil, Grains, Gal●●gall, Liquirice, of each ℥. i. This powder is sit for them which have a weak stomach and a cold brain, it reioy●eth the heart, quickeneth the senses, and wonderfully comfor●eth the memory. Temperate fruits are not unmeet. In active things, fruits moderately hot and moist are co●tienient. as ripe sweet Mulberries, ripe Grapes, sweet Apples, Dates, and such like, which must first be roasted under hoar coals: also, Almonds, Damask Prunes, & dried Peaches smoothed, infused in wine of pomegranates, are good. Let his sleep be moderate, for too much hurteth, according to Hypocrates, 2. aphoris. Notwithstanding, it is less hurtful to incline to overmuch sleep then overmuch watching: but be careful to make his sleep temperate, for Avicen in the 3. of the 1. ca 9 saith, Moderate sleep strengtheneth nature. Let him avoid sleeping in the after noon, unless he have not slept by reason of pain in the night. Moderate motion after meat, when the first and second digestion have avoided their superfluities, is good. Nevertheless, it is safer to offend in too much rest, than too much motion, especially rest is requisite in taking of medicines, therefore the Empirics keep them in their beds, for than is nature wholly employed to expel the disease. Anger, rage, sorrow, fear and care must be avoided. It availeth to be merry, to rejoice, to hope well of health, to be confident, to use friendly and loving company. Carnal copulation must be moderate, and after the third digestion. The belly must be soluble, if not by nature, then by art, each other day taking this clyster: take Mallows, Fumitory, Mercury, of each one handful, Borage half an handful, make a decoction, whereof take sufficient, and add four ounces of Oil, two drams of salt, let it be ministered fasting.  
For the first intention, take of Cassia newly drawn, and the Lenitive electuary, of each five drams, with Sugar make a ball to be eaten: these may be tempered with Fumitory water, or such like. You may give also Manna & Cassia, of each six drams, and temper it with the other, for them which are rich: or make this clyster: Take Beets, Mallows, Camomile flowers, of each one handful, boil them, then put to them si●e drams of Hiera Picra, Cassia, and Sugar, of each one ounce: four ounces of common Oil, two drams of salt, let him take it fasting.  
For the second i●te●●●●n, which is the diminishing of the matter, take Violets, borage, ana. ʒ. iii. liquorice sliced, Rasins stoned, ana. ʒ. two. Prunes, Sebesten, of each five in number, Senna leaves, Epithymu, ana. ʒ. i, seethe them all: take hereof so much as will temper Cassia newly extracted, Elect. Indi. of each i. ʒ. ss. or as much of confect. Hamech. make a ball with Sugar, or temper them as is said before, or, Rec. Pill. faetidarum, de fumoterrae, ana ℈. i. make three pills with honey of Roses, and give them after Supper, or early in the morning.  
Concerning the third intention which is the digesting of the matter, take syrup of Fumitory and bugloss, of each six drams, of Cychory water, Endive, Hops, of each one ounce, and use this five days: afterward, give the Purgation before set down, and then take another syrup: take syrup of Stichades. i. ℥. of Fumitory, ℥. ss. borage water, Hops, and Endive, ana. ℥. i. When sire or seven days are past, let him take the solutive medicines, and then a stronger syrup, to wit, de Epithymo, with Fenell water. Take the roots of Smallage, fuel, Parsley, bugloss, Ru●cholme, Asparagus, (the pith being taken out) maidenhair, Borrageflowers, Balm, Doder, Polypody, Thime, Rasi●s, of each equally, boil them, and strain them, adding a little Vmeger, and some Sugar, let it boil once again, hereof let the patiented drink one great draft warm, if he loathe this decoction, give him these waters with Sugar: take the water of Ceterach, Fenell, borage, bugloss, Fumitory, of each one ounce, give it to drink with a little Sugar. But because the matter is so rebellious, that it cannot be digested by inward medicines, there must be things outwardly applied, which may help to digest it, so that although the matter be never so stubborn, yet by inward and outward means it may be overcome. And do not marvel at the applying of outward medicines to digest 〈◊〉. For Gilbertus saith in the cure of the compound ●ectian Fever, it is requisite to digest the matter by fomentations, plasters, and such like: therefore keep this order, that in the first and second day, the patiented take the syrup: on the third day, anoint him with the ointment afterward described, in all parts, applying a little of the unguent lightly upon the legs, arms, soles of the feet, and palms of the hands, and this to be done when he goeth to bed, and let him take his syrup in the morning, so that, in the sixth day he hath taken six syrups, and hath been three times anointed, and then give him a solutive medicine, and the humours which ought to be expelled by the mouth, shall be diverted to the lower parts, and so shall he escape the hurt in the mouth. The days following, use it in like sort, strengthening the digestion, and also the unguent, by adding treacle & Quicksilver. You may also foment those places, with the decoction of Melilot, roots of hollyhock and such like, using this in the morning, thus there shall be three ways to digest the matter, syrups, unctions, and fomentations. Now followeth the description of the unguent. Take three pound of butter, 
The Ointment.  one pound of swine's grease, neither too new, nor too old, one ounce and a half of treacle of ten years old, one ounce of Mithridate, two ounces and an half of Quicksilver, litharge of gold, common Salt, of each one ounce, make hereof an ointment, incorporating with them as much water of fumitory and Scabiose, as can 〈◊〉 mingled. This Ointment is the proper 〈◊〉 of this disease, and the last and greatest secret amongst those things which are outwardly applied. Amongst inward means, the principal and greatest is the water of distilled treacle, as shall appear.  
The fourth intention, which is the avoiding and purging of the digested matter, is first in a potion. Rec. Electuarij lenitivi, Cassiae newly extracted, ana. ʒ. iij. Electuarij Indi minoris. Confect hamech ana. ʒ. j give it with water, or the aforenamed decoction in the morning, and let him sleep one hour after. These medicines may be tempered with water of bugloss and Endive, or fumitory, and such like, or adding in stead of Cassia, six ʒ. of Manna, for rich persons. Or let this medicine be prepared for the rich. Take Liquorice sliced, Raisins, of each ʒ. two. Sebesten four in number, borage, and bugloss flowers, of each half one handful, four Senna leaves, one ʒ. of Tamarinds: let them boil in sufficient water of borage and fumitory. Take two ounces of this decoction, & infuse in it four scruples of Rhewbarh, two scruples of Agaricke, four grains of Spicknard, let them infuse eight hours, then strain them forth, and put to them Electuar. lenitivi. ʒ. vj. Electuar. Indi minoris, Confect hamech. anaʒ. j ss. Let him take this potion. This is but set down for example sake. These Pills are convenient; de Harmodactyll. de Fumoterrae, ana ℈ j Foetidar. ℈. ij. Make Pills with syrup of stechados for one time: let the patient take them in the morning▪ and sleep upon them three or four hours. All these things are set down for examples: for it is the physicians duty to vary or alter according to 
O● 〈…〉.  necessity. These Purgations are to be taken in the sixth day, as is before showed, and the same order to be kept.  
For the fift intention, make a bath, or steuph, with sweet water, wherein seethe Mallows, hollyhocks, Melilot, Cha●●●●●●, Roses, red docks, fumitory: this must be done the day after the purging. For hereby cometh convenient alteration, because moistness is most requisite. When he begenneth to sweat, let him take of this▪ water following. Take of the roots of Holyhocks, Fu●●●●ne▪ r●d Docks, Elecampane, of each one pound, cut them s●●tall, and put them into four pounds of Ma●●sey to be mollified during one day and a night, afterward add one ounce and an half of Treacle, being ten years old or more: put it into a Limbeck, and ●et the water distill, whereof take three ounces, with two ounces of bugloss water in the beginning, as is aforesaid. Let this stuff be often used after the six or seven days be ended: and let him drink this water, which is the best and singular, and the greatest secret and last refuge in this disease.  
The sixth intention, which is the comforting of the parts is thus performed. Rec. Laetifican. Galeni ℥. iij. Diamusc▪ dul●isʒ. vj. aromatic. gariofil. ʒ. ss. Electuar. regumʒ. j Conseruae Buglossae, Cidonior. Boragin. ana. ℥. j Syrupi de pomis q. s. Fiat Electuarium. Hereof let him take ʒ. two. or a spoonful, or take Andromachus Treacle of ten years old ℥. i. Mithridate ℥. ss. seeds of Citrons, Bowl armoniac, of each ʒ. i incorporate these together, and with Musked rose-water make an Electuary, whereof let him take the quantity of one Hasell nut, or a dram: also if he be weak, this restaurative con●ection may be made. Take sweet Almonds, Hasell nuts, of each one ounce, fistick nuts half an ounce, six dragms of the common cold seeds, Penidior, brawn of a Capon, of each three ounces, with rose-water make morsels or lozenges. Hitherto avail cordial bags, which it were too long to rehearse.  
For the seventh intention, which is the correction of the accidents in the pains: if they be intolerable, take a Lillyroote, Henbane seeds, of each ʒ. iii. one ounce of red Lead, the marrow of an Hart and a Calf, of each two ounces, as much Oil and Wax as will suffice: make an ointment, and apply it. Or if necessity doth require, a little Opium may be put to it. But because these steupefactive medicines ought not to be applied, but in great extremity: For (Avicen saith) sleupefactives are to be seared. And Mesues saith: If you can eschew it, it is not good to give them: leave them as much as you may, & try first those which assuage pain, & do plainly give ease, as Dill, Camomile, Melilot, Holihocks, yolks of Eggs, woman's milk, and such like. For pustles use either the former 
An ointment.  ointment, or this. Take Turpentine, goats fat, of each one ounce, red Lead, Gold lethargy, burnt Allom, of each one ounce, oil of Bays two ounces, so much Wax as will suffice, make an ointment.  
For ulcerated Pustles, Fistulaes', Canker, Rec. Fuliginis nitri, Litharg. Tartar. roasted in Colewort leaves under the coals, Gold over, Pepper, Frankincense, yolks of Eggs, of each ℥. iiii. the root of Elecampane, docks sodden in strong Lees, of each ʒ. two. the juice of fumitory, of Docks, of wormwood, Celandine, Elecampane, great Beans, Sothernwood of each ℥. iii. white Hellebor, Soap, Brimstone, of each ʒ. ss. let all the juices boil, be skumde, and strained, and after the Dock, and Elecampane roots be beaten, and put in, afterward the Soap, than the powders specified first, then put to it common Oil, Swine's grease, and Wax, of each ʒ. two. Quicksilver extinct in Swine's grease ℥. i. make an ointment, which is of miraculous force in these cases. For the nodes or knots, take roots of Holyhocks, seethe them in white Wine, and beat them with Capon's grease, and apply them: or take the mucilages of Linseedes, and Holyhocks, of each ʒ. two. Spike oil, oil of sweet Almonds, Camomile, of each ℥. ss. one ounce of Butter, Gum Arabic, and Dragagant, of each ʒ. i. make an ointment which hath marvelous force to resolve and mollify. To this purpose serveth a Serecloth of mucilages, the juice of Hyssop, and such like. Also the ointment used for Scabs availeth in this case. Take four ounces of Turpentine well washed, two ounces of Butter washed, one dram of Salt, Succi critrangulorum, yolks of Eggs, of each 3. in number, one ounce of oil of Roses, mingle these to an ointment. I could here write many other appertinent medicines, but because the principal cause being removed, the rest is easily cured, these shallbe sufficient.  
Now, for the hurt in the mouth (if it fall out) take white and red Roses, of each hal●e a handful, Camomile, Sage, of each a handful, boil them in white wine, and strain it, put to the expression two drams of alum, syrrupe of Mulberries, Honey of Roses, of each half an ounce, two ounces of Wine▪ of pomegranates, mingle them, and let him herewith wash his mouth often, or▪ in ●●●ad of wine the water of Plantain, Nightshade, Scabiose, or Houseleek may be added, & five grains of Camphor, or half a dram of Philonium may be put to it, as the pain requireth. But these stupefactive medicines are to be taken heed of. The pieces of green Gowrdes holden in the mouth are profitable. It is good to wash the mouth with milk, mingling with it the water of Nightshade, or water Lilies. I could add many more: but because no hurt shall befall the mouth, if you deal as I have said before, I cease, and come to show the way how to avoid this disease.   

What cautions must be observed to escape the French Pocks. Chap. 5.  
THey which are careful to escape the French Pocks, let them first eschew sin. For it is commonly said, Adversity followeth Iniquity: especially let them beware of riot. For it is said in the third of job, Riot is a devouring and consuming fire. And the spiritual Physicians do say, that divers diseases follow divers sins, as the quotidian Fever cometh for pride, the Gout for slothfulness, the Leprosy for riot, and so of the rest.  
Seeing therefore this disease is likened to the Leprosy, it is to be ascribed to Riot. But because these things pertain to an other Physician, this shallbe sufficient. Therefore we counsel on our behalf, that men beware to converse much with them that are infected, principally from carnal copulation with an infected woman: for this disease is contagious. Therefore saith Avicen in the 2. of the 1. in the conclusion of his treatise of diseases. Some diseases pass from one to an other, as the Leprosy, Scabs, small Pocks, pestilent Fevers, yea rotten Apostumes. Sith then this disease is near to the Leprosy or Scabs, it must be thought contagious.  
Moreover, such things as do engender ill humours, especially melancholy nourishment, must be avoided, as was showed in the order of the six things not natural. And if it happen the yard be hurt by carnal copulation, it must be helped presently with this washing. Take Rosemary, Sage, Camomile, of each one handful, boil them in white Wine, to which being strained, put two ounces of the Wine of pomegranates, half an ounce of honey of Roses, wash the yard or infected place with this, after spread upon it this powder, Rec. Litharg. auri, cerussae, ireos nucum cupressi, ana. ʒ. i. make them into powder, and apply it after the washing, and if this powder be too strong, put to it Mastic, Myrrh, Frankincense, of each one dram. But for more security, when man or woman hath companied together, let them wipe themselves clean with a clean lumen cloth, and beware the women's clothes, for they are infected: and this 
A good caveat of a bawdy Spaniard.  done, yet for more security, let him or her wash the place with warm water, or white Wine, for because of the frication of the parts, some slime sticketh to the yard, which causeth infection to the yard and the body, therefore the use of this order will be good to avoid that infection & filthiness.   

Certain difficulties are dissolved which may be propounded touching this disease. Chap. 6.  
IF the reason be demanded, why this disease beginneth 
Doubt, 1.  in the secret parts 〈◊〉 some fools answer, that it cometh by reason the humours in that place are most meet to be corrupted: but if this were a sufficient reason, almost all diseases should have there beginning in that place. Therefore it must be say●, that between those parts, and the quality of this disease, there is such conformity, and this came by means of that ●●fluence: for every thing worketh not upon every thing, but a certain upon a certain. Arist. 1. phies. so this disease is readier to be first taken in the yard, then in the neck, head, shoulders, and not in other places. Therefore 
Doubt. ●.  the influence at that time was an enemy to the head and yard. And if it be demanded why it hath the termination by the mouth? it may be answered, that this proceedeth of the property of Quicksilver, which doth draw humours to those parts: or better thus, that Quicksilver by his heat doth warm, and make thin the humours thus prepared, to expel them by the uppermost parts: therefore Paulus affirmeth it to be hot and moist in the fourth degree, to whom, I do rather stick then to Avicen, who maketh it cold in the second degree. And if it be demanded, why the mouth doth stink? it may be answered, that this cometh of the Quicksilver, whose fume hath property to make the mouth stink as Avicen saith, can. 2. cap. 2. Hereupon also cometh pain in the head, and hurt in the mouth, as it may be gathered of the nature of it, unto this may be added the burnt, putrefied ill humour, which may make the same accidents, and therefore it is no marvel if there be so great pains. Now the especial remedy is, that when the humour beginneth to be expelled by the mouth, it be diverted by medicines ministered upward and downward, to bring it to the lower parts. If it be demanded, wherefore some persons being apt to melancholic diseases, both in regard of complexion and ill order, are not infected? I say that perhaps their bodies are more firm, and consequently do more hardly receive an impression than others, or by some other property, which in divers bodies is found to be divers, as saith Avicen. 1. 1. And if it be demanded why Quicksilver helpeth, or is more available than other medicines, except the distilling of treacle before mentioned? it must be answered, to come of his property, or rather manifest quality, because it is hot and moist in the highest degree, and the disease cold and dry. That the disease is cold and dry, it is proved, first, because it is saturnal, as hath been showed: secondly, because it is found by experience, that hot & moist things help: also, because it hath affinity with the Leprosy, which is a cold and dry disease, and with other melancholic diseases: again, because it is a long disease: for Avicen saith, 1. 3. cap. 2. That sickness which is prolonged, is wholly cold: and it is confirmed, because we see this matter to putrefy seldom, or to cause a Fever: hereupon, saith Galen: Nothing doth properly corrupt of cold or dry, 2. Book of Complexions. Therefore this must be said so to be, because the disease is cold and dry. If it be demanded, why some medicines seem to help in the beginning, but when they are continued, they cease to help? it is said, that this cometh of a double cause, whereof the one is in nature, the other in the disease, in regard of nature which by continuance doth loath, and rejoice in novelties: in regard of the disease, because albeit in the beginning the medicine is contrary to the disease, yet in process, the contrariety ceaseth through custom: therefore, saith Avicen, There is no passion from a thing accustomably used. 4. 1. Hereupon, we see some beasts to be contrary, and enemies at the first meeting, but by usual conversation, that enmity ceaseth, than they become tame, and the strife is ended between them: this must be also accounted amongst the qualities. And if it be said on the contrary, that the agent and patiented being duly situated, of necessity an action must follow, it is answered, that in this case there is action, but so small, that it is of no force. Or it may be answered, that by custom, the disposition of the patiented is altered, whereupon it doth follow that change of medicines (so that they be not from the purpose) is very profitable: as Avicen saith in the place alleged. If it be demanded whether blood-letting is agreeable to this disease, I answer, that in the beginning, and before the matter be dispersed to the grieved places, whereby it is mingled with the blood, especially if it be scattered in the skin, than (I say) it is convenient, if other particulars concur: but in process, it is not convenient, except the ointments and other medicines have been applied, because that when nature hath endeavoured to expel humours, being helped with medicines, she hath mingled some part thereof with the blood: wherefore cupping is less disliked, but with this caution, that the cold humours be not made more crude, nor the hot more inflamed, according to Avicen 4. 1. Beware thou bring not thy patient to one of these two things, either to the boiling of choleric humours, or crudity of cold humours. In this case crudity is more feared, then boiling, and therefore it is seldom convenient, and by experience it hath hurt more, than it hath helped. If it be demanded how these pains in this disease are to be called? I answer, they are extensive or stretched, whereupon, saith Avicen, The cause of extended pain, is either windiness, or an humour that stretcheth the nerve or muscle, as if it drew it to the extremities. Neither is it true which some think, that this is a breaking pain, because they think the matter to be between the bone and the skin, grounding themselves on the saying of Avicen, The cause of breaking pain, is windiness between the bone and the skin, which covereth it. Avicen speaketh not of the skin immediately covering the bone, for that is unsensible, 
In this, and perhaps some point or two more, the Author's judgement failed him: as in some things we fail all.  but he speaketh of those which do not immediately clean to the bone, as the skin covering the ribs, or skull, and such like. Sith therefore this pain is not in those places, it ought not to be so called. If it be demanded, to what pustles the pustles in this disease are like? I answer, to those which are called of Avicen, pustles in the face, who saith, that Asafati is a high bank of ulcerous pustles. Nevertheless, there are oft times pustles in these like others, as those which resemble nodes, fistulas, cancers, burning, ants, and all others, as the diligent viewer may judge: but because the disputation about names appertaineth not to a Physician as Avicen saith, 4. 1. 5. I purpose not to be long in this matter, as others have done, who not knowing the nature and causes of a disease, and by consequent not the cure, have only trifled about names, whose works I know not to what end they have been printed. If it be demanded, why the pains are increased in the second or third day of the unction? It is answered, because then the humours are moved, and also made thin in their curing, or digestion, which cometh by the benefit of the unction, according to the Aphorisine. 2. part.  
Fevers and pains are more increased in the labouring to suppuration, than when matter is fully digested. And therefore it is a most singular secret, to minister them solutive medicines, that, before the humour be purged at the mouth, it may be carried downward: and by this means the mouth shall not be hurt, as I have often tried. Or if he have Pustles, or ulcerated places, there must drawing medicines be applied, that the humour may be there avoided, & be diverted from the mouth. hereupon is inferred, that that is the more true opinion which saith Quicksilver is hot, than that which saith it is cold, sith by it the humour is made thin and movable, as hath been showed. But contrariwise, Vincentine Ajax Siculus a learned young man, saith: Quicksilver causeth cold diseases, as Palsies, the falling sickness, and such like: as saith Avicen can. 2. therefore it is cold. For like is engendered of like, as it is in the Physics. To this it is answered, that this might be true, if of itself it procured these diseases, but it causeth them accidentally, to wit, by weakening, sith it is contrary in nature to the sinews and brain, because it is hot and moist: and the natural complexion is helped of the like, and is hurt by the contrary, as it is 3. Art. Galeni: The more hot parts have need of more hot medicines. Therefore the brain and sinews, through their weakness, engender cold humours, and also do easily receive them. Thus the solution is plain, because it cannot be that any thing should bring forth a thing divers from it accidentally, as heat cold, and cold heat, etc.  
It was also demanded oft by a witty young man Franciscus de Carmino, whether Quicksilver be fit in this disease, seeing by consent of all Authors it is an enemy to the sinews, and this disease most commonly is in the sinews. He saith further, The report of all is not vain. 7. Ethic. But almost all say that Quicksilver is contrary, and do therefore ●●allow unctions, etc. To these I have answered, that Quicksilver is agreeable for the reasons before alleged. But I answer to the first argument, that although it may have some hurt in it, yet when it is corrected (as is showed) it is not so much but the help is more. Or it may be said, that therefore Quicksilver is contrary to the sinews, because the constitution of it is contrary to the natural constitution of the sinews: but in as much as the sinews are distempered to cold and dry, and that ill temperature is removed, until they come to their good temperature, it may be said it is absolutely necessary. Therefore some things in sickness are good, which in health were unmeet, and would bring the body to decay. To the second reason I say, that it must be noted that Aristotle saith: It is not altogether vain. For he would not have it to be utterly false, for it is true in part, in as much as Quicksilver hath some hurt in it. Yet it is not therefore to be rejected utterly, especially when it is corrected. For Galen saith, 9 de tuenda sanitate. It is hard to find such an help as hath no hurt in it.  
It was further demanded by him, why the pains are more increased in the joints, than in other places, sith by motion they should rather be resolved? And this was one james Roger, a subtle youth. Unto this it is answered, the emptiness in the place is of more▪ force to gather, than the motion to resolve. Whereupon, saith Avicen▪ Fen. 2. ●an. 1. The largeness which is in the joint is fit to receive matter flowing unto it.   

The declaration of the tree of signs. Chap. 7.  
ALL the signs of a disease are taken, either from things not natural, or from things natural, or from things beside nature. From things not natural thus, in what air the patiented remaineth, what meat, drink, what exercises he useth, what sleep, what watchings▪ he hath. From natural things thus, what age he is, what is his custom, what his profession, his strength, his complexion, etc. From things besides nature in three sorts, of the action hurt, the quality altered, the excrements changed. From the action hurt three ways, whether it be the animal, vital, or natural. The animal is double, sensitive, and motive. The sensitive is double, inward and outward. An example from the motive faculties thus, whether and how the whole bodies or the parts can be moved? Examples from the outward sensitive faculty, how he heareth, seethe, smelleth, tasteth, as, what pain he feeleth, what he tasteth in his mouth. Examples from the inward sensitive faculties thus: what imaginations he hath, what judgement, what memory, what dreams. Concerning the vital faculties, let them be inquired in the six things not natural. From the natural actions in two sorts we gather observations, from the estate of ministering parts, or things ministered. Example of the first is, how his appetite is, his retentive faculty, his digestive, his attractive, his expulsive: to wit, how the party goeth to the stool, maketh water, hath the course of flowers, useth venery, & such like. Examples of things ministered are, how he is nourished, and inquiring of all other actions, whether the action be diminished, corrupted, or utterly lost. From the quality changed, as, how his breath smelleth, what sweat, what ulcers, what wounds, what matter, what is the colour of his tongue, eyes, and whole body, what moisture, dryness, roughness, smoothness, hardness, softness in the tongue, belly, and rest of the body. From the excrement changed, as, what be, and how much are the excrements of the eyes, nose, ears, mouth: what vomiting, belching, urine, stools: what filthiness in the head and feet, what sweat in the whole body: yawning, stretching, loathing, may be referred to the natural actions which expel, sith they proceed of nature labouring to expel. From things not natural thus, that he used a diet increasing blood, or being practised in delectable things, as a Musician, or Player, or because he used such meat and drink as engender blood, to wit, potched Eggs, stones of Cocks, strong wine, and such like. From natural things, because he is full of flesh, of a sanguine complexion, young man. From things besides nature, and first from the action hurt, as, heaviness in the eyes, head, beating in the temples, stretching, yawning, loathing, much and deep steep, troubled senses, slow imaginations, weariness without labour, great pulse, swift and fast, fullness of the veins or arteries. From the changed quality, as, redness in all the body, chief in the veins of the eyes, fullness of them, swelling in the mouth. From the changed excrements, as urine gross and red, dark and red, rosy red. In egestions there appeareth no sign: the spittle is sweet, sometime mingled with blood: blood issueth out of the nose, or the gums, or by menstrual flux, or by the Emroydes, or other places▪ much sweat stinking like to a Goat, & red weals: also to these may be added, that the party dreameth, he seethe red things, or blood streaming, and that he swimmeth therein. Therefore 4. Collect. it is read of Galen, that he commanded one to be let blood, who dreamt he was washed in a tun of blood: others not consenting, enjoined him exercise, so the party died.  
The signs of Choler from things not natural, as he used 
Signs of Choler.  vehement exercise in hot air, he used hot and dry meats increasing choler. From things natural, that he is a choleric young man. From things beside nature, and first from the action hurt, the patiented hath great thirst, disquietness, pain in the right side of the forehead, great light doth hurt him, he hath sometime hunger with swoning, a weak appetite, loathing, pricking like to the points of needles, raging, great biting in the avoiding of excrements and urine, a swift pulse with hardness and extension. Here may consequently be added touching dreams, sith it seemeth to pertain to the action hurt, as, that he seethe things of a Citron or fiery colour, that he brawleth, and sometime dreameth that he flieth. From the quality changed, as, yellowness of the face and eyes, as it is in the Jaundice, bitterness of his mouth, dryness and roughness of the tongue, dry nostrils. From excrements changed, as, red urine, Citronlike, fiery, Saffronlike, his stools like Saffron, his spittle bitter, his vomit choleric, green, bitter, of a Saffron colour, moistness of the eyes & nostrils sharp, choleric, little, and from the ears not much. The signs of phlegm from things not natural, as fullness 
Signs of Phlegm.  of mea●e, idleness, long sleeps: from things natural, that he is of a phlegmatic complexion, a Fisher, salt, etc. From things beside nature, and first from the action hurt, little thirstiness except the phlegm be salt, weak digestion in the time of health, a sharp appetite, much sleep, sluggishness, idleness, the parts dissolved, heaviness of the eyes, forgetfulness, pain in the hinder part of the head, giddiness, blindness, ill appetite, longing after sharp and sour things, loathing, belching, heavy pain, coldness, whose hurt is notably perceived in the head and stomach: for there is much phlegm gathered, as saith Avicen. 13. 3. and Mesue in Appropriate a rare, slow, and easy pulse. From the quality changed, as, cold sensibly perceived, white colour in the face and body, the tongue overwhite, too soft, fullness in the body, the face soft and swelled: from the excrements changed, as, urine white, discoloured, dark yellow, his stools phlegmatic, slimy, waterish, his spittle slimy, waterish, much, and rather harsh then bitter, much superfluity avoided by the nose and palate: his dreams of water, snow, rain, and such like, which are to be referred to the action not hurt. The signs of melancholy first from things not natural, as, he 
Signs of Melancholy.  used much musing, care, fear, etc. Also melancholic meats, from things natural, that he is of a melancholic complexion, often incurring melancholic diseases, from things beside nature, and first from the action hurt, he feeleth heaviness in his head, and rather on the right side, his mouth hot, his appetite corrupt, and sometime greedy like to a dog, much watching, much solitariness, pain in the Splent, hardness, silence, many meditations, weeping, or a desire to weep, a settled countenance, sluggishness, the sides stretched, little sleep, if there be not sharpness, with phlegm, or sourness in the mouth, an ill pulse with hardness, the body decaying. From the quality changed, duskiness, or blackness appearing in the body, hearinesse of the body, the black Morphew in the lower eylid, & that is a most strong sign, as saith Auerrois Coll. 4. the eyes being black & clear. From the excrements changed, brine black, or dark, green, blue, his stools black or dusky, little spittle & sharp, sour belchings, blood black, & congealed when it is let forth: his dreams full of terror. Here also may be added from things which help or hurt. Here notwithstanding must be observed, that those three kinds of signs set down by Galen, to wit, from things substantially remaining, from accidents and actions may be referred to these three, or these three reduced to them: and if it were thus set down as appeareth in the tree, from things natural, and not natural, from hurtful and helping may be also here placed. Notwithstanding, all these may be reduced to the three set down by Galen, as appeareth to him that well considereth the matter.   
FINIS.   

Certain other approved Remedies, very profitable also for the cure of the French disease: gathered for the benefit of young Students in chirurgery.  

A special good Turbith minerale.  
REcipe Mercurij vivi saepius aceto & Sale loti, parts 
beware none of our blind or common practisers, that brag of every new invented medi●en, which they glean or steal from others, do with unwashed hands presume to give or minister this worthy remedy without the counsel of the learned. Georg. Melich.  vj. easque cum auri purissimi part una optime permisce, ita ut auro in fictili fusorio liquato, & iam refrigescere incipienti, mercurius in altero calefactus fictili addatur, & rudicula diligenter misceatur. Addatur deinde tantundem aquae fortis, qua aurum soluitur, fiatque praecipitati pulvis.  
This kind of Turbith is prepared with great pains, and it serveth for the Colic, quartans, and for Morbus Gallicus: but it requireth a time and charges, as is aforesaid: but being made, it ought to be put in a glass vessel, and so to be set in the embers, and when it hath continued a time, whereby the strong water may evaporate forth by force of the fire, than it is become Praecipitat, but if you will make Turbith, than you must wash it very well, and do it according to art, and so to minister it with discretion, which doth cure the imperfections aforesaid, without danger.   

The order of the taking the foresaid Turbith minerale.  
FIrst let the patiented be purged with some good purgation meet to purge that sickness: but if the blood be very foul, as most commonly it is, let blood also the next day: if the patiented be strong, give him xiiii. grains of Turbith-minerale, and roll it well up in▪ Butiri recentis q. s. and make one pill and gild it: but remember before you take the pill, that ye drink a good draft of Mutton broth, and at every time they do vomit, give presently some Posset Ale, mixed well with Sugar. And thus you shall take three of these pills together, having a day respite between, according as the strength of the sick patient will serve. And for healing of their mouths, take Posset Ale, and mix with it Honey of Roses: and if the mouth grow foul and furred, put into the injection so many drops of oil of Sulphur as will make it tart: and also to heal it up with some other good lotion, if need so require.   

White Praecipitate.  
THis is a secret, and is of very excellent force for the taking away of dead, proud, or superfluous flesh, and for cleansing of ulcers, but it moveth greater pain than the other, because the other is made with Aqua fortis, and this with oil of Sulphur: Therefore this aught to be applied when the other will not serve, and this is the making thereof.  
Rec. Argenti vivi, & olei ex Sulphur, ana partes aequales, in cuc●rbita, horas xxiv. macerentur, deinde igne urgeantur, donec humiditate omni absumpta albescant.   

An Electuary to confirm the cure, and to prevent the coming again of Morbus Gallicus.  
Rec. rad. torment. & angel. semin. fraxini ana. ʒ. ij. 
Auguries Ferrari●●.  cort. citri, cinnamoni, semin. card. benedict. ana. ʒ. j ss. raiment. tenuiss. ligni judici ℥. ss. theriacae & mithridati, ana. ʒ. iij. syr. de cort. citri q. s. misce: fiat Electuar. liquidum.   

A water for pustules and spots in the face in Morbo Gallico.  
Rec. mastic. olibani, tragagant. ladani, ana. ʒ. j succi 
Auger. Fe 〈…〉.  limonum j ℥. aquae plantag. & ros. ana. ℥. ij. sumach, tartari rubri, coralli albi, borac. ana. ʒ. ss. sublimati in pulu. redacti gra. iij. bulliant simul in vase vitreo lento igne ad quartae partis consump. postea fiat colatura clarificata & aromatizata cum granis aliquot mosci.   

An Ointment for the same.  
Rec. albumen unius oui recent. agitetur donec spumescat, 
●●●●●. 〈◊〉.  deinde add sublimati & camphorae ana. gra. iiij. agitentur iterum simul, & misceantur donec unguenti formam recipiant. Cum quo biduo aut triduo pustulas omnes & maculas delebis.   

A water to take away the scurf and scales of the skin and face.  
Rec. amigdal amararum, farinae fabarum & orobi. ana. 
〈◊〉 F●●●.  ℥. j alluminis, boracis, mastic. olibani, tragagant. ana. ℥. ss. succi limonum. ℥. ij. aquae plantag. rosarum, & liliorum alb. ana. ℥. iij. lact. caprini recent. ℥. iiij. mixta omnia diligenter destillentur lento igne, more solito.   

A Powder for the heat of the reins and bladder, and for ulcers in the urinary passages of Morbus Gallicus.  
Rec. gra. halicacabi, paria seven. sem. cucumeris, portulacae▪ 
●ug●r. F●●r.  & papaveris alb. ana. ʒ. iij. amyli, raiment. ●boris, glicyrrhizae. rad. torment. ana. ʒ. ij. margaritarum orient, coralli albi. & rubri. ana. ℈. j zacchari ad pondus omnium fiat pulvis.   

A decoction of Guaiacum.  
Rec. ligni guaiaci. lib. j ss. cort. eiusdem. ℥. iiij. liquirizae. 
●▪ ●.  ℥. vj. polypodij. ℥. iij. fumariae. m. ij. summitatum, lupulorum, m. j macerentur horas. 24. in lib. 20. aquae puriss. deinde in vase terreo coquantur ad medietatem prunis luculentis 5. aut 6. horas, & percolentur: postea quotidie in aurora illius aquae dabis. ℥. vj. & est decoctum forte. Pro decocto tenui, in idem lignum iam coctum infundas aquae. lib. xx. & iterum coquas ad tertias. Sub decoctionis finem addes liquiritiae rasae & contusae. ℥. ij. passull. mund. ℥. iij. Absoluta decoctione add cinamomi. ℥. ss. ad saporis iucunditatem, fiatque decoctio.   

A most rare and singular drink for the cure of Morbus Galicus, coming with extreme aches, etc.  
Rec. 

Limaturae guaiaci. ℥. vj.  
Zarzae parillae. ℥. iiij.  
ana. ℥. j ss. 

Corticis guaiaci.  
Rad. helenij sicci.    
ana. ℥. j 

Rad. & so. verbasculi.  
Pol. card. bened.  
Rad. Iridis viridis.  
Sem. anisi.  
Faeniculi.  
Petroselini.    
Succi verbasculi. ℥. iiij.  
Sennae Alex. ℥. iij.  
Polypodij. q. s.  
Agarici. Trochis. ana. ℥. j ss.  
Hermodact. ℥. ij.  
ana. ℥. iiij. 

Colocinth.  
Staechados.    
ana. ʒ. vj. 

Mechoacan.  
Rad. asari.    
ana. ℥. ss. 

Rad. foen.  
Petroselini.  
Glycirrhizae.    
Vuarum pass. rub. ℥. iiij.  
Ficuum incisorum num. x.    
Infundantur omnia in lib. xuj. Ceruisiae fort▪ lup. per xxiv. horas coq. ad dimidias ante finem ebull. add bugloss. boraginis, violarum, capill. anthos ana. m. ss. Et cum saccaro albo dulcoretur. Does. ℥. viii. vel 6. mane tantum. Rec. Ceruisiae. fort. lup. lib. xuj. coq. ad lib. viii. cum predict. ingredientibus cui add bugl. borag. viol. cap. ven. anthos ana. m. ss. & cum saccaro dulcoretur: servetur pro secundario potu.   

A Cerote for Morbo Gallico.  
Rec. Axungiae porc. non omnino vetustae & a membranis 
Botallus.  optimae purgatae lib. j pingued. gallinae. ℥. iij. ol. de terebint. ℥. ij. ss. euforbij castorei. ana. ʒ. iij. styracis calamitae. ℥. j ss. cinabrij. ℥. ij. ss. cerae. q. s. ad formandum ceratum quod non coinquinet, in fine add argenti vivi optime comminuti. ℥. iij. quae omnia simul misceantur donec frigida sit tota massa, ne quod gravius est, in fundum descendat.   

A purging potion for Lucs Venerea.  
Rec. rad. enulae campanae & hederae. ana. ℥. iiij. anthos, capilli veneris, calaminthae, pulegij, gallitricum, arthemisiae. ana. m. j cort. rad. cichorij. ℥. three cort. rad. foenic. & apii. ana. ℥. two. sennae ℥. i. polipodii. ʒ. x. croci ℈. i. agarici trochiscat. ℥. i. ss. bruise that which is to be bruised, and boil all together in ten pints of saire water, until a pint be wasted, then put thereto mellis despumati. lib. i sacchari. lib. i. ss. let it boil together again until two pints more be wasted: then when it is cold, let it be filtered three or four times, and so every morning take a pretty draft fasting, and sweat after it, for it is a most singular drink if it be used in his due time according to art.   

An unguent for Lues Venerea.  
Rec. axungiae porc. lib. j ol. chamomillae, anethi, masticis & laurini. ana. ℥. i. styracis liquidae. ℥. x. rad. enulae campanae. ℥. iiii. rad. ebuli. ℥. iiii. squinanti, staechados, euphorbii. ana. ℈. iiii. vini maluat. lib. i. powder that which is to be powdered, and boil all together to the consumption of the wine, strain it, and add thereto lithargirij auri. ℥. seven. thuris, masticis. ana. ʒ. vi. resinae pini puriss. ℥. ss. terebint. venet. ℥. i. argenti vivi extinct. cum saliva hominis. ℥. iiii. fiat unguentum.   

A most excellent Cerote for pain in the joints, proceeding of Morbus Gallicus, & for ulcers after they be well cleansed.  
Rec. Olei Chamomillae, spicae & liliorum. ana. ℥. two. axungiae porci. lib. i. sevi vitulini. lib. i euphorbii. ʒ. v. thuris masculi. ʒ. x. ol. laurini. ℥. xviii. pingued. viperi. ℥. two. ss. rad. enulae campanae, & ebuli ana. ℥. two. squinatis, stechados & arthemisiae. ana. m. i vini maluat. lib. two. powder that which is to be powdered, and boil all together, unto the consumption of the Wine, strain it, and add thereunto Litargi auri. lib. i. terebint. venet. ℥. two. cerae albae. ℥. viii. styracis liquidae. ℥. i. ss. extract. croci. ℥. ss. boil these together to the form of a Cerote, and being taken from the fire, and cooling, add thereto argent. vivi extinct. cum succo limonum. ℥. iiii. labour all well together, until the Mercury be incorporate, then use it as art doth require.   

An Unguent for Morbus Gallicus.  
Rec. Axungiae porcinae lib. j Butyri recentis ℥. vj. Olei 
Andrea's Matthiol. Note this unguent for a secret of mi●e own experience.  Laurini ℥. iiij. Olei Vulpini, Hypericonis, Terebint. ana. ℥. v Styracis liquidae lotae in aqua Chamomillae, & vino Cretico ℥. ij. Olei Sulphuris Chynic. ℥. ss. Cynabrij ℥. j ss. Argenti vivi extincti ℥. vj. Mercurij sublimati ʒ. j Cerae albae q. s. Fiat unguentum.   

A fume for the drying of Ulcers, and expelling the venomous infection proceeding of Morbus Gallicus.  
Rec. Cynabrij ℥. iij. Myrrhae, Thuris, ana ℥. j Aloes hepat. 
Andr. Matth.  Sandarachae, Styracis calamitae, & Benjamin. ana. ʒ. iij. etc. Puluerizentur Crasso modo.   

A purging Electuary for Morbus Gallicus.  
Rec. Turpet. albi & Gummosi, Hermodactilorum, Rutae 
Andr. Matth.  agrestis ana. ʒ. iij. Diagredij. ℥. ss. Gariophilorum, Zinziberis, Cinamomi, ana. ʒ. ss. Piperis gra. ij. Squinanti, Spicae, Epithimi, Salis gemmae, ana ʒ ss. Santalorum Citrinorum alb. & rubr. Croci, ana ℈. j Mannae Calabriae ℥. ss. Rhabarbari ʒ. ij. Zedoariae ℈. ij. Sacchari lib. ss. Cum aqua Buglossae Fiat Electuatium, vel tabulae.   

An Unguent to open a Bubo, when it is come to suppuration.  
Rec. Mercurij sublimati, ʒ. ij. ss. Vng. Populionis ʒ. iij. Opij 
Nicholaus Massa.  gra. v. Lapid. haematitis ℈. j Fiat unguentum. And so apply it to the safest part when you will: open it long wise, but not round, and it will open without any great pain.   

A fomentation to be used in the ripening of a Bubo, proceeding of Morbus Gallicus.  
Rec. Rad. altheae, & Liliorum, ana ℥. ij. Rad. acori, Helenij, 
I. P.  Sem. lini, Foenugrae. Anisi, Foeniculi, ana ℥. ss. Maluae, Violar. Parietarioe, Chamomilloe, Meliloti, Anethi, Origani, Artemisiae, ana. m. j Let all these be prepared and boiled in water and wine equal portions, so much as will suffice, and so according to art foment the place grieved both in the morning and before supper.   

A Cataplasm that doth cease pain, and bring a Bubo to suppuration.  
Rec. medullae pomorum coctorum. ℥. three foliorum acetosae coct. sub cineribus cum butiro recenti salis expert. ℥. two. rad. cynoglos. crud. ℥. iiii. farinae triticeae in vitellis quatuor ovorum solutae. ℥. i. axungiae suillae veteris. q. s. Mix them well together, and make a Cataplasm accordingly, and apply it to the grieved place.   

A Cataplasm for a schirrous tumour proceeding of Morbus Gallicus, and is to be used after the unction.  
Rec. rad. brioniae crudae. ℥. two. sigillae mariae crud. ℥. iiii. axungiae porci veteris. ℥. vi. croci ʒ. ss. fiat Cataplasma.   

pills to purge in Morbus Gallicus.  
Maceratur precipitatus in aquis cichoriae, buglossae, scabiosae post 24. horas posito super prunas vase, in vaporem resoluantur aquae, & siccus relinquitur pulvis, miscetur hic cum spec. aromat. rosat. & diamarg. frigid. & cum theriaca vel mithridato formentur pillulae magnitudine cicerum.   

A Gargarism for ulcers in the mouth and jaws proceeding of Morbus Gallicus.  
Rec. plantag. & caudae aequi. ana. m. i rosarum, ballast. summitatum absinthii, & salic. ana. p. i hordei integri ℥. i. nucum cupressi, lenticulorum, sumach. ana. ʒ. three decoquantur sufficienter in aquae partibus x. & una aceti, & in colatura dissolve mel. ros. vini granat. & diamori. ana. ℥. i. fiat gargarismus.   

A Clyster drawing back the matter, that causeth pain in the head, in Morbus Gallicus.  
Rec. betae, altheae, mercurial. rutae, fol. lauri, cataputiae, urticae ana. m. i. rad. polipodii. ℥. i. cort. genistae & sem. cartami contusi. ana. ℥. ss. s●orum staechados & chamomillae. ana. p. i fiat decoctio & in colatura dissolve succ. rad. yreos per residentiam depurati. ℥. i. dia catholici, hierae pi●rae, diaphenic. ana. ℥. ss. ol. rutac. de castor. & anethi ana. ℥. j mellis anthosati. ʒ. x. salis come. ʒ. ij. fiat clyster.   

Pills for Alopecia ex Morbo Gallico.  
Rec. rhabarbari, agarici. ana. ʒ. ij. aloes. ℥. j argent. vivi 
Rondolet.  extincti in succo rosar. ʒ. iij. cinamomi, ambrae, ana. ℈. j myrrhae, masticis. ana. ʒ. j cum terebint. excipiantur & formentur pill. 8. pro ʒ. j capiat pro prima vice. ℈. j deinde. ʒ. ss. postremo. ℈. i. pro divitibus add limaturae auri aut pannorum auri. ℈. iiij.   

A sweet water to cicatrize ulcers, and to heal the itch.  
Rec. aquae rosar. lib. ij. vini albi. lib. ij. urinae pueri. lib. j 
I. B.  malecorij. ℥. iij. balaustij. ℥. ij. aluminis usti. ℥. iiij. vitri combusti. ℥. ij. mercurij sublimati. ʒ. iiij. mastic. ℥. vj. ligni aloes. ʒ. iiij. cort. guaiaci. ℥. iiij. cassiae ligneae ℥. ij. mellis. lib. ss. sanguinis draconis. ℥. ss. misce, & ad artem distillentur, dein iterum dicta aqua distilletur, addendo mosci. ℥. ss.   

A most excellent ointment for the itch and scabs.  
Rec. olibani. ʒ. three ol. laurini. ℥. i. falis grossi. ʒ. seven. axungiae 
I. B.  porcinae, ℥. j ss. argent. vivi extincti. ʒ. iij. cerae albae. ʒ. two. ss. misce, fiat unguent. quo ungantur manus & pedes vesperi contra ignem luculentum donec cutem intravit totum.   

A Collirium for ulcers of the yard of Morbus Gallicus.  
Rec. vini albi. lib. i aquae rosarum, & plantag. ana. lib. two. 
Ambrose P●●●us. 〈◊〉  auripigmenti. ʒ. two. virid. aeris. ʒ. i aloes, myrrhae. ana. ℈. two. terantur subtilissime, & fiat collirium.   

An Iniection drying ulcers, and cicatrizing without pain.  
Rec. aquae fabrorum lib. ss. nuc. cupressi, gallarum, cort. 
Ambros. P●●●us. 558  granat. ana. ʒ. i. ss. alluminis rochae, ʒ. ss. bulliant omnia simul, secundum artem, fiat iniectio.   
FINIS.   

To the Reader.  
GOod Reader, in viewing certain old Books of chirurgery, I happened to light upon this written copy, and perusing it thoroughly, I thought it a work very profitable and necessary for all godly professors of our Art: for here they shall find in brief, certain judgements and aphorisms, of most imperfections, which daily assaulteth man's body, not only in the exterior, but also in the interior parts: which diseases, or griefs, are easy to be found, because it goeth alphabetically, first in latin, and then in english. It is a work, (as I judge) gathered out of divers Authors, as well of Physic, as of chirurgery, by some that was willing to profit his country and common wealth. A collection in mine opinion worthy the publishing and setting forth, although I know it will not please the humours of some captious heads, that will neither do good themselves, nor suffer others: as I myself, and other good men, have tasted of their slanderoous tongues, and unmannerly backbiting taunts. But thou (good Reader) whatsoever thou art, if thou lovest thy country and common wealth, or dost take pleasure in our so worthy an Art, having a care to discharge thy calling with a good conscience, than (I say) thou wilt not only find great profit and pleasure thyself, by carrying these small sentences in memory, but also thou wilt be thankful to any that shall take pains in so worthy a thing.  
FINIS.   

De Apostematibus.  

Apostematis tempora quatuor. The four times of Apostemes.  
1. beginning. 2. Augmentation. 3. State. 4. Declination.  
INitium cognoscitur ex humorum 
Initium Apostematis.  in aliqua part corporis coaceruatione.  
The beginning is known by the gathering of humours in any part of the body.  
Augmentum ex doloris & tumoris incremento.  
The augmentation is known by the increase of pain and 
Augmentum.  swelling.  
Status, quoniam dolor neque accidentia, crescunt, aut diminuunt, 
Status.  sed quasi in centro sistunt.  
The state is known, when as neither the pain nor accidents do increase or diminish, but do stand as it were in a stay.  
Declinatio fit per accidentium & doloris decrementum. 
Declinatio.   
The declination is known by the diminishing of the pain and accidents.  
Apostemata quatuor intentionibus curantur, scilicet, resolution, 
Intentiones 4. in apostematibus curandis.  suppuratione, putrefactione & induratione.  
Impostumes are cured by four intentions, viz. by resolution▪ suppuration, putrefying and hardening.  
Apostemata quae non cito ad suppurationem vel declinationem 
Ad suppurationem vel declinationem ●●rde prou●●entia. Rubri coloris.  perveniunt, curatu sunt difficilia.  
Impostumes that come not speedily either to suppuration or declination, are hard to be cured.  
Rubro colore Apostemata cum prominentioris partis mollitie citissimè curantur.  
Impostumes that are red in colour, with softness in the upper parts, are easy to be cured.  
Apostemata ad suppurationem iam perventa celeri gradu 
Ad suppurationem iam perventa.  curanda sunt.  
Impostumes that are come to suppuration, must speedily be cured.  
Apostema si suppurationem recusat, neque declinare omnino 
Suppurationem recusan●●.  concedet, malum.  
Impostumes that come not speedily to suppuration or declination, are evil.  
Apostematis augmento▪ utere mollificantibus. 
In augments utenda.   
In the augmentation of Impostumes, use mollificatives.  
Apostemata pulsationem habet dum humores vertuntur 
Pulsationem habentia.  in putrefactionem, & sic fit in arterijs.  
Impostumes do beat whilst the humours do turn to putrefaction, and so it chanceth in the arteries.  
Apostematis corruptio ex abundantia materiae vel eiusdem 
Apostematis corruptio.  materiae malignitate, aut pravitate provenit.  
The corruption of Impostumes cometh by abundance of matter, or by the malignity, or vileness thereof.  
Apostematum quaedam terminantur per insensibilem resolutionem, 
Apostematum Terminatio.  & hoc est valde bonum, & quaedam per virulentiam, & hoc est pessimum, & si fuerint in locis ex directo cordis, aut prope, mortale est.  
Some Impostumes end by insensible resolution, which is very good, and some turn to a poisoned quality, which is very evil, and if those be in places against the heart, or near unto it, it is deadly.  
Apostematum quaedam sunt de materia calida, & terminantur 
Apostematum materia  in die 20. & quaedam de materia frigida, & terminantur in 40. die.  
There be some Impostumes which come of hot matter, and they are ended in xx. days, and some there be which proceed of cold, and are ended in xl. days.  
Apostematum quaedam sunt cum faebribus continuis, 
Apostematum febre.  & si expuant saniem ante 7. diem, impossibile est quod evadant: quoniam quum tam cito natura generat saniem, natura nó invenit omnino viam, unde eam expellat: & si virtus est debilis cito morietur: si multa bona signa apparent (dicit Hyppocr.) vita pollicetur.  
Some Impostumes have continual fevers, and if they spit matter before the 7. day, it is unpossible for them to escape, because when nature so speedily engendereth matter, she findeth not sufficient way to expel it: And if the party be weak, he dieth speedily: but if many good signs appear (saith Hippocrates) he may live.  
Omne apostema de materia adusta, sicut Anthrax, Carbunculus 
De materia adusta.  & formica, pessimum est & mortale, praesertim cum febre.  
Every Impostume coming of burnt matter, as Anthrax, Carbuncle & Formica, is evil and deadly, especially if it come with a Fever.  
In omni Apostemate est triplex morbus, viz. Morbus 
Apostematum morbi.  consimilis, ratione malae complexionis; Morbus officialis, ratione tumoris; & morbus communis, ratione solutionis continuitatis.  
In every Apostume is a threefold disease, viz. Morbus consimilis; by reason of his evil complexion, Morbus officialis; by reason of the swelling and Morbus communis, by reason of the solution of continuity.  
Tribus modis accidit membrorum corruptio, primo, 
Me●brorum 〈…〉.  ex vene●o calido vel frigido unde complexio partis naturalis corrumpitur, secundo, quando spiritus naturales in membro residere prohibentur: Postremò, per venenosorum medicamentorum administrationem, ut Realgar, Arsenicum, &c:  
Corruption of the members chanceth three manner of ways, first of venom either hot or cold, whereupon the natural complexion of the part is corrupted: secondly, when the natural spirits cannot be suffered to settle in the member: thirdly, by the administration of venomous medicines, as Realgar, Arsenic, etc.  
In declinatione ac fine Aposthematum, desiccantia frigida, 
In declinatione●●●ine quae fug●enda.  & repercutientia materiam in membro claudunt, ut inde malam qualitatem indueret & omnem putrefactionem contraheret.  
In the declination and end of Impostumes, cold desiccatives and repercussives do shut the matter in the member, whereby it obtaineth an evil quality, and draweth to all kind of corruption.  
Materiam repercutientia indurabunt qua longiori tractatu 
Repercutientia.  morabit.  
repercussives do harden the matter, and make it continue longer in cure.  
Mollificantia & resoluentia tam augmentatione quàm 
In augmento & statu res utendae.  statu conveniunt.  
Mallificatives and resolutives are convenient, aswell in the augmentation, as the state.  
Materia fluctuante pernitiocissima sunt repercutientia. 
Materie fluctuante.   
If the matter be flowing, than repercussives are most pernicious.  
Cerebri Apostema, Lethargum, Apoplexiam, & mortem 
Cerebri Apo●tema.  asciscit.  
Impostume in the brain, brings Lethargy, Apoplexy, and death.  
Pulmonum apostema Vlcera, Fistulas, inortemqne excitat. 
〈…〉 Apostema.   
Impostumes in the Lungs, bring Ulcers, Fistulaes' and death.  
In cord congestum syncopem, mortémque adfert. 
Cordis Apost.   
Impostumes in the heart bring swooning and death.  
In hepate, putrefactionem humorum, digestionis debilitatem, 
●●●●● Apost.  & mali moris ulcera.  
Impostumes in the liver bringeth corruption of the humours, weakness of digestion, and ulcers of hard curation.  
Fluxus ventris in Apostemate hepatis, malum. 
Fluxus 〈…〉 ●●ium.   
In Apostumes of the liver, flux of the belly is evil.  
Omne apostema hepatis generat opilationem, & opilatio 
Apostema liepatis 〈…〉 〈…〉.  indigestionem, indigestio aquositatem, & aquositas Hydrop●sim, quare omne apostema hepatis est causa hydropis.  
Every Apostume in the Liver causeth stoppings, and stoppings causeth want of digestion: want of digestion, waterishness: and waterishness the dropsy. Therefore every Impostume in the Liver, causeth the dropfie.  
In Renibus elongatum morbum mortemque. 
Renum Apostem.   
Impostumes in the Kidneys, brings a long disease, & death.  
Intestinis gracilibus mortem. 
Intestinis gracilibus.   
Impostumes in the small guts bring death.  
Graves affectus mortémque in vesica. 
Vesicae Apost.   
Impostumes in the Bladder, bring grievous accidents and death.  
Quae in collo incidunt Cancros, Fistulas, ulceráque aegrae 
coli Apost.  sanationis pariunt.  
Impostumes in the neck, bring Cankers, Fistulaes', and ulcers of hard curation.  
In oculis, visus defectus, & nisi curata citissime sint, obcaecationem. 
In oculis Apost.   
Impostumes in the eyes, bring decay of fight and blindness, if they be not speedily cured.  
In ano apostema Terminat in fistulam, vel ulcus difficilis 
In Ano.  curationis.  
Impostumes in the fundament bringeth Fistulaes', or ulcers of hard curation.  
Apostemata virgae ex continua calidorum humorum influxione 
Virgae Apost.  proveniunt, quae si cum vlceratione contingant rarissimè membrum ad integram sanitatem reducitur.  
Impostumes in the yard do come by the continual flowing of hot humours: which if they chance with ulceration, the member is hardly or never brought to his natural soundness.  
Apostemata in pectore senum difficillime sanantur. 
In pectore senum.   
Impostumes in the breasts of old persons are hard to be cured.  
Circa iuncturam apostema, circumiacentium partium 
Circa ivacturam.  actiones mancas quodammodo reddit.  
Impostumes about any joint do in a sort maim the actions of the parts lying round about.  
In spina, totius corporis debilitatem, propter neruorum 
In spina.  inde emanantium, copiam.  
Apostumes in the back bone, bring debility to the whole body, by reason of the plenty of nerves thence arising.  
Circa linguae radices mortem, vel pessima accidentia. 
Circa linguae radices.   
Impostumes about the roots of the tongue bring death, or very evil accidents.  
Facilis sunt curationis in carnosa part concitata. 
Pa●tibus carnosis.   
Impostumes in any fleshy part are easy to be cured.  
Emunctorijs quae incidunt, citissime curanda veniunt. 
Emunctorijs.   
Impostumes in the emunctory places, must be speedily cured.  
Promotum apostema ex venenosa materia, omni cura statim 
A venenosi 〈…〉.  foris est extrahendum.  
Impostumes that come of venomous matter, must be speedily drawn to the outward parts.  
Durae matris apostemata ex vini potione, aeris mutatione, 
I 〈…〉.  vel alicuius ossis punctione proveniunt.  
Impostumes in dura matter do chance by drinking of wine, changing of air, or the pricking of some bone.   

Septem attendenda in apertione iam suppurati abscessus. Seven things to be noted in the opening of ripe Impostumes.  
1 PRimo, ut sectio fiat eo loco quo materia continetur. First, that incision be made in that place wherein the matter is contained.  
2 Secundo, ut fiat in loco inferiori, quo melius purulenta illa collwies evacuari possit.  
Secondly, that incision be made in the lower part, whereby that venomous matter may the better be evacuated.  
3 Tertio ut fiat secundum rugas & processum musculorum.  
Thirdly, that it be made long wise after the lying of the fibres and muscles.  
4 Quarto, ut vitentur nerui, venae & arteriae quoad fieri potest.  
Fourthly, that in the making of incision, the sinews, veins and arteries be eschewed as much as may be.  
5 Quinto, ut non tota materia semel atque affatim educatur, praesertim in magnis abscessibus, ne scilicet ex nimia subitáque inanitione, & spirituum resolutione virtutis sequatur prostratio.  
Fiftly, that the matter be not all at once or wholly taken out, especially in great Impostumes, lest by overmuch and sudden emptying and resolving of the spirits, there follow utter weakness and throwing down of the faculties.  
6 Sextò, ut blandius & minimo quam fieri potest dolore locus tractetur.  
Sixthly, that the place be handled gently, and with as little pain as may be.  
7 Septimò, ut facta apertione locus detergatur, carne impleatur, & ad cicatricem, more aliorum ulcerum perducatur.  
Seventhly, that after incision is made, the place be mundified, filled with flesh, and skinned after the manner of other vicers.  
Apostema in via maturationis esse, potestis judicare, cum 
Apostematis in via matu●a 〈…〉. e●●● cog 〈…〉.  quaedam est levitas circa partem molestam cum doloris mitigatione.  
You may judge an Impostume to be in the way of ripening, when there is felt a certain lightness about the affected part, with assuaging of the pain.  
Resolutivorum applicatio calidis apostematibus, & in 
Apostematibus cal●●is, resolu●●tia tug●enda sunt.  augmentatione facit incrementum corruptionis: talia namque partes subtiles resoluunt, sed quae gressa est sinunt in membro putrescere.  
Resolutives applied to hot Impostumes, and in the augmentation, do increase the corruption: for they resolve the subrill parts, but suffer the ●wosse matter to putrify in the member.  
Repercutientia in locis emunctorijs sunt valde periculosa, 
Repercutientia locis emü c●●●is nō●unt adiubenda.  vel si aliqua venenositas in loco inest.  
repercussives in the emunctory places are dangerous, especially if there be any venom in the place.  
Immatura repercutientium applicatione putredo sape 
Imma●ura rep●●●●t 〈…〉.  gen▪ ratur.  
By the inordinate application of repercussives, corruption is oftentimes engendered.  
Frigida & humida maturantia calidis apostematibus & a chole●a cum sanguine pronenientibus debent applicari. 
Apostematibus calidis qu● utenda sunt.   
Cold and moist maturatives ought to be applied to hot impostumes, those that come of choler and blood.  
Sed calida & humida calidis adhibita humores in congeriem 
●ugienda.  coaceru●t, unde dolor confestim multiplicatur.  
But hate and moist maturatives to hot impostumes, gathereth together the humours upon heaps, whereupon fo●●h with the pain is increased.  
Alopecia est mutatio crinium in candorem quum crines 
Alopecia.  veretes radicitus excidunt.  
Alopecia is a changing of the hear into whiteness, when the old hears do fall off by the roots.  
Alopecia quae a lepra provenit raro aut nunquam curationem 
Alopecia a lepra.  admittit.  
Alopecia coming of a Leprosy, is hard, or never cured.  
Atra bilis veluti niger sanguis si exierit in debilitatis hominibus, mortale.  
Melancholy, or like unto black blood, if it avoid from weak persons, is deadly.  
Angina ad pulmonem s●pe transit, tum intra septem dies mors sequitur.  
The squmancy goeth often to the lungs, and death ensueth within seven days.  
Aetas, tempus, locus, victus, consuetudo mutat morbos.  
Age, tune, place, diet and custom, altar diseases.  
Atra bile orti tumores semper dolorosi.  
Tumours coming of melancholy, are always painful.  
Aegritudinum pravarum nolite onus suscipere ne mali medici nomen subeatis.  
Take no desperate cure in hand, lest thou bear the name of an evil Physician.   

B.  
BRonchocele est tumour juxta fauces, differens ab eo 
Bronchocele.  quod in scroto nascitur.  
Bronchocele is a swelling beside the jaws, differing from that which springeth in the cod.  
Bronchocele si inest a natura non curatur.  
If this swelling come by nature, it is uncurable.  
Si non inest a natura curatur difficillime.  
If it come not by nature, it is hardly cured.  

De brachiorum vulneribus.  
AN fieri posit indicat pars affecta potissimum, sic vulnerata.  
The affected part doth chief show whether▪ it can be healed.  
Plicaturae cubiti sunt periculosa propter venas magnas.  
Wounds in the bought of the arm are dangerous, because of the great veins.  
Cubiti suspecti propter spasmum & inflamationes.  
Wounds are to be suspected in the cubit, because of the Cramp and inflammation.  
Ex bile flava & sanguine nati tumores, nunquam dolore destituuntur.  
Tumours of yellow choler and blood, are ever full of pain.  
Cancer in pectore vel collo aegrè ve● nunquam curatur. 
Cancer in pectore vel collo.   
A Canker in the breast or neck is hardly or never cured.  
Cancro vel veteribus ulceribus immundo corpore incidentibus 
Acuta medicamina.  acuta medicamina adhibita semper nociva.  
Sharp medicines applied to Cankers or old ulcers in an unclean body, do always hurt.  
Cancer qui in propatulo grassatur non facile saluti consentit. 
Cancer qui in propatulo grassatur.   
A Canker that eateth outwardly, is hardly cured.  
Cancer non ulceratus atque iam confirmatus curationem 
Cancer non ulceratus.  non admittit, nisi radicitus extirpetur, aut per sectionem, aut per ustionem.  
A Cancer not ulcerated, and thoroughly confirmed, can not be cured, except it be wholly removed either by incision, or cauterization.  
Cancer ulceratus qui est in venis, neruis & ossibus difficulter 
Cancer ulceratus.  curatur.  
An ulcerated Canker in the veins, sinews and bones, is hardly cured.  
Cancer antiquatus incurabilis existit. 
Cancer anti quatus.   
An old Canker is uncurable.  
In canis rabiosi morsu pessimum est signum & mortale 
Canis rabidi morsus.  permixtio rationis & abhominatio aquae mundae.  
In the biting of a mad dog, it is an evil and deadly sign to rave and abhor fair water.  
Canis rabidi morsus quadraginta dierum spatio reclusus foret.  
The biting of a mad dog should be kept open the space of forty days.  
Carbunculus minus lethalis est primùm ruber, deinde 
Carbunc●l●s.  citrinus apparens, qui vero livescit aut nigricatiugular.  
That Carbuncle is less deadly, which is first red, and after yellow, but that which waxeth swarthy or black, is past all help.  
Calida suppurationem faciunt, cutem emolliunt, extenuant, 
Calid●.  dolorem leniunt in spasmo, distentione & ossibus fractis.  
Hot things do ripen, mollify the skin, extenuate, and assuage pain in cramps, crickes, and broken bones.  
Calor gignit carnis effaeminationem, neruorum incontinentiam, 
Calor.  mentis stuporem, h●morragiam, lipothimiam.  
Heat causeth neshnesse of the flesh, shaking and trembling of the sinews, dumpishness of the mind, issue of blood, and sounding.  
Carnis supercrescentis causa est humiditas, & mala abstertio.  
The cause of superfluous or proud flesh, is too much moisture, and want of mundification.  
Corpora exercitata, morbis minus obnoxia esse solent.  
Those bodies that are exercised, are least annoys with diseases.  
Ex intemperie calida citius quam ex frigida aegri intereunt, ob ignis in agendo celerem efficaciam.  
Men die of a hot distemperature sooner than of a cold, because of the swift force of fire in working.    

D.  
DIslocatio grossis, pinguibus, & teneris, contingent 
Dislocatio in grossis, pinguibus & teneris corporibus.  corporibus aegrè sanatur.  
Dislocations in gross, fat, and tender bodies, are hard to be cured.  
juncta cum apostemate dislocatio difficulter curatur. 
Dislocatio cum apostemate▪ Dislocatio cum fractura.   
A dislocation with an impostume is hard to be cured.  
Dislocatio cum adherente fractura difficulter curatur.  
A Dislocation with a fracture is hardly cured.  
Si coxa excidit, mucores ibi nascuntur, crus contabescit 
Coxae dislocatio.  & claudicat.  
If the hip be dislocated, there gathereth in the place waterish matter, and the thigh withereth away, and halteth.  
Quaedam iuncturae sunt facilis dislocationis ut genu. 
juncturarum dislocatio.  quaedam difficilis ut digitorum & cubiti: quaedam medio modo, ut coxae & scapulae.  
Some joints are easy to be dislocated, as the knee: some hard, as the fingers and cubit, and some indifferent, as the hip, and shoulderblades.  
Quae facilis sunt dislocationis faciliter restaurantur: quae difficilis difficulter: quae medio modo, mediocriter.  
Those joints which are easy to be dislocated, are easy to b●e restored▪ those which are hard, hardly: and those which are indifferent, indifferently.  
Dislocatio illa est deterior quae est cum ligamenti fractura, 
D●●●ocatio cum ligam●●ti 〈…〉.  qua os cum osse coniungitur & alligatur, & ut plurimum fit in capite anchae & spatulae.  
That dislocation is the worst which cometh with the fracture of a ligament, whereby one bone joineth with another, and for the most part it chanceth in the head of the shoulder blade and hip.  
Quando iunctura ad omnes partes positionis sine difficultate 
junctura non dislocata neque separata esse cognoscitur.  movetur, non est dislocata, neque separata.  
When the joint without difficulty may be mo●ed every way, it is neither dislocated nor half put forth.  
Mandibula quando ad interiora dislocatur, os remanet 
Mandibulae dislocatio ad interiora.  apertum: & dentes inferioris mandibulae posteriores sunt dentibus mandibulae superioris.  
When the jaw is dislocated inwardly, the mouth remaineth open, and the teeth of the neither jaw stand more backward than they of the upper.  
Quando autem ad exteriora dislocatur, clauditur os, & a●●●iri 
Ad exteriora.  no● potest: apparet imminentia mandibulae ad extra, & privatur loquela.  
But when it is dislocated outwardly, the mouth is shut and cannot be opened, and there appeareth a part of the ●awe sticking out, and speech is taken away.  
Dislocatio humeri quandoque fit ad inferiora, & ●entitur 
Dislocatio ●▪ me●i.  sub axillo in tactu capitis▪ vert●b●i, ac si esset ouum, & in part superiori concavitas que tactu facile comprehenditur.  
The shoulder sometime is dislocated towards the inferior part thereof, which may be 〈◊〉 under the ar●ehole, as if it were an Egg, and in the upper part is a cavity, which by touching is easily perceived.  
Ancha, si dislocatur ad anteriora, tunc pes est longior, & 
Anchae dislocatio ad ante●iora.  & non est possibile plicare pedem, nisi cum dolore, & non potest ambulare nisi super calcaneum, & multoties apostematur inguen, & retinetur urina.  
If the hip be dislocated towards the forepart, than the foot is longer, and it is not possible to bow the foot without pain, and the party cannot go about upon the heel, and oftimes the flank doth impostumate, and the urine stoppeth.  
Quando fit dislocatio ad interiora tunc pes dislocatus 
Ad interiora.  redditur longior, quoad visum, altero, & genu eminentius, & non potest duplicare pedem suum apud inguen inflatum & apostematum, quoniam caput coxae iam introivit in ipsum.  
When the hip is dislocated inwardly, than the leg on that side seemeth longer than the other, and the knee more eminent, and he cannot double his leg to his flank being puffed up and impostumated, because the head of the hip hath entered into it.  
Si dislocatur ad exteriora, abbreviatur pes, apparet in inguine 
Ad exteriora.  profunditas & in eius opposito eminentia, inflatio in posterioribus, & gen● ad interiora subversum.  
If the hip be dislocated onewardly, the foot is shortened, there appeareth in the flank a hollowness, and over against it a part standing out, a swelling in the hinder parts, and the knene bowing inwards.  
Cubitus dislocatus retrorsum distendi minime potest, intror●um 
Cubi●i dislocatio intrors●●.  pl●cari nequit.  
If the cubit be dislocated backwards, it cannot be stretched out: if inward, it cannot be bowed.  
Dextrorsum vero aut sinistrorsum dislocatum, forma iuncturae 
Dextrorsum a●● sinistrorsum.  & modus possibilitatis motionis ostendit.  
But if the cubit be dislocated either to the right or left side, that is easily known by the form of the joint, and the possibility of the motion.  
Si pulsus brachij in cubito dislocati tangatur, tangenti vena 
Pulsus b●achij.  divisa sentitur.  
If you touch the pulse of the arm that is dislocated in the cubit, it seemeth as though it were a vain divided.  
Manus dislocatus introrsum, digitos flectere nequit, cum 
Manus di●●oc●tu● int●orsum & e●t●o●s●m.  extrorsum dislocatur, digitos non potest extendere.  
When the hand is dislocated inwardly, the fingers cannot bow, when it is dislocated outwardly the fingers cannot extend.  
Mandibuloe dislocatio si celeriter suppeditetur & symptomatibus 
Mandibuloe dislocatio.  destituatur, in duodecim diebus curatur, sed si symptomatibus coniuncta sit, periculosa fit.  
A dislocation in the jaw is fully cured in twelve days, if it be taken speedily in hand and void of accidents: but if any accidents do happen, it is dangerous.  
Vertebrae si dislocantur, semper periculosum, saepe lethal 
Vertebr●r●m dislocatio.  est.  
A dislocation in any of the vertebres, is always and for the most part deadly.  
Humeri dislocatio in xx. diebus restauratur. 
Humeri dislocatio.   
A dislocation in the shoulder bones is restored in xx. days.  
Digiti dislocati in xii. diebus curantur. 
Digiti dislocatio.   
A dislocation in the fingers is restored in xii. days.  
Coxa dislocata in thirty. diebus restituitur. 
Coxa dislocata.   
Dislocations in the hip are restored in thirty. days.  
In calce, tarso, & pedum digitis, dislocatio non penitus 
In calce tarso & pedum digitis dislocatio.  donec xl. dies praetereant, firmatur.  
A dislocation in the heel, instep and toes, is not restored in such sort as the patient may go upon it, until xl. days be ended.  
Dolour à quatuor causis movetur, viz. ab incisione, erosion 
Dolour.  membri, alicuius fractura, & distentione; ut in apostemate.  
The causes of pain are four, as incision, corrosion, breaking of some member, and distension as by impostumation.   

E  
AB erysipelate putredo & suppuratio malum. 
Putredo aut suppuratio ab erysipelate.   
Putrefaction and suppuration coming of Erysipelas, is evil.  
Ab exterioribus si vertitur ad interiora malum, ab interioribus autem ad exteriora, bonum.  
If Erysipelas do go from the outer to the inner parts, it is evil, but contrariwise it is good.  
Erysipelas' exquisitum raro terminatur suppuratione, sed 
Erysipelas' exquisitum.  magna ex part insensibili transpiratione, seu resolutione.  
A perfect Erysipilas is seldom cured by suppuration, but for the most parts by insensible transpiration, and resolution.  
Erysipelata circa caput, curatu sunt difficillima, ad●oque 
Erysipelas' circa caput.  periculosa esse solent; ut nisi efficax consequatur auxilium, interdum affectos strangulent.  
Erysipelas about the head is hard to be cured, and it is so dangerous, that if it be not speedily helped with most excellent medicines, it sometime choketh the patiented.  
Symptom pra●●m est, si osse nudato ca●o circu●stans ab Erysipelate occupari videatur.  
The bone being bare, if Erysipilas be in the flesh round about, it is a very evil accident.  
In curatione erysepelatis quatuor scopis est utendum. 
Erysipelatis curatione scopi quatuor.   
In the curing of erysipelas, there are four rules to be observed▪  
Primus scopus consistit in vitae recta institutione, atque victus rationis observatione.  
The first rule consisteth in the right ordering of life, and observing of diet.  
Secundus, humoris ad partem affectam confluentis (quem antecedentem materiam appellant) aversionem considerate.  
The second consisteth in the turning away of the humour flowing to the affected part (which they call the antecedent matter.)  
Tertius in humoris, qui iam in partem aegram influxit, (quem materiam coniunctam dicunt) vacuatione consistit:  
The third consisteth in the evacuation of the humour, which hath already flowed 〈◊〉 the affected part (called the matter conjoined.)  
Quartus circam symptomatum correctionem, ac propu●sionem versatur.  
The fourth consisteth in the correction and expulsion of accidents.   

F.  
FIstula est ulcus concawm, sordidum, latum inferi●●s, 
Fistula.  & strictum exterius, quod modò clauditur & modò aperitur.  
A fistula is a hollow and filthy ulcer, broad within, and narrow without, which sometime shutteth, and sometime openeth.  
In pulmonibus fistulae aegrè vel nunquam curantur. 
In pulmonibus.   
Fistulaes' in the lungs, are hard or never cured.  
In stomacho, intestinis, & vesica aegrè vel nunquam curantur 
In stomacho intestinis & vesica.  fistulae.  
Fistulaes' in the stomach, small guts and bladder, are hardly or never cured.  
In oculis, faucibus, ventre, sede, & iuncturis aegrè sanantur 
In oculis, faucibus, ventre, sede & inncturis.  fistulae.  
Fistulaes' in the eyes, jaws, belly, fundament, and joints, are hard to be cured.  
Fistulae in partibus carnosis procul dubio curantur, tametsi 
Partibus carnoske  foramina multa appareant.  
Fistulaes' in fleshy parts are undoubtedly to be cured, although many holes do appear.  
Fistula lachrymalis est difficilis curationis propter oculi 
Fistula lachrymalis.  propinquitatem & sensibilitatem, & inveterata, vix curatur, ob magnam carnis duritiem.  
The lachrimall fistulae is hard to be cured, by reason of the vicinity and sensibility of the eye, and being old, it is scarcely ever cured, by reason of the great hardness of the flesh.  
Si fistula fuerit in carne, sanies est alba, si in osse, est sicut 
In carne, osse, & neruo.  lotura carnis, si in neruo, est nigri coloris.  
If the fistulae be in the flesh, the matter is white, if it be in the bone, it is like washing of▪ flesh, if in the sinew, it is black in colour.  
Si ad os, vel cartilaginem, vel neruum, vel musculos, vel 
In osse, cartilagine, neruo, musculis, thorace, vulua grandibus ve●is & arterijs.  thoracem, vel vuluam, vel ad grandes venas, arteriasque penetrauerit: semper periculosum, saepè pesti●erum est.  
If a fistulae pierce either to the bone, cartilege, sinew, muscles, matrice, or small ●eyues and arteries, it is always dangerous, oftentimes pestiferous.  
Si fistula fuerit in aliquo loco cuius sinus penetrat ad oculos, ut juxta nasum, incurabilis est, quia nec incisionem, nec aliquam medicinam ibi administra●e possumus, propter teneram substantiam oculorum.  
A fistulae in any place that hath his passage to the eyes, as beside the nose, is uncurable, because we can neither make incision, nor minister thereto any medicine, by reason of the tender substance of the eyes.  

De fracturis ossium. F.  
FRactura cranij magna, aegrè persanatur. 
Cranij fractura.   
A great fracture in the skull is hard to be cured.  
In fractura cranij febris acuta, spasmus, tremor, alienatio 
Signa mortalia in fractura cranij.  mentis, syncope, vocis abscisio, rubedo, & tenebrositas oculorum, timorosa & mortalia signa, praecipue si maneant & non remittantur.  
A sharp fever, cramp, trembling, alienation of the mind, sounding, loss of speech, redness and darkness of the eyes, are fearful and deadly signs in a fracture of the skull, especially if they remain still, and vanish not.  
Denigratio durae matris quae non mundificatur cum 
Durae matris devigratio.  melle, significat mortem.  
If the blackness of Dura matter cannot be mundified with honey, it is death.  
Tumour magnus in fractura cranij, praecipue si citò evanuerit 
Tumour magnus in fractura cranij.  sine causa rationabili, malum.  
A great tumour in the fracture of the skull is evil, especially if it vanish soon away without a reasonable cause.  
Tumour parvus & saniei bona digestio, bonum. 
Tumour parvus.   
A small tumour with a good digestion of the matter is good.  
Caro rubra in consolidatione cranij, bonum. 
Caro rubra.   
Red flesh in the consolidation of the skull is good.  
Signa cranij fracti sunt, contusio magna, separatio cutis 
Signa cranij fracta.  ab ossibus, apoplexia, vertigo, vocis destructio, sonus rancus percusso capite cum virga, stridor dentium filum retinentium dum perc●titur filum, humiditas per fis●uram pullulans retento anhelitus.  
The signs of the skull being broken, are these, a great contusion, a separating of the skin from the bone, apoplery; giddiness, destruction of the voice, a hoarse sound being stricken with a rod upon the head, gnashing of the teeth▪ holding a thread betwixt them when the thread is stricken, moisture coming out by the ri●t when the breath is holden.  
Craneo fracto patiens se multas candelas videre putat, saepe nisi sustineatur cadit, non v●●ro intuetur lucem, neque pannum dis●●r●● fu●●●rt.  
The skull being broken, the patiented thinketh that he seethe many candles, he falleth often if 〈◊〉 not holden, he cannot endure to behold the light, neither can he suffer a cloth to be torn.  
Sanguis si inter cranium & meningem inciderit ad putredinem 
Sanguis inter cranium & meningem.  vertit, nec non symptomata nociva adfert.  
If blood fall between the skull and hard membrane, it will turn to putrefaction, and bring evil accidents.  
Sanguis si fluxerit per nares, aures vel os, post casum, vel 
Signa partium intestinorum laesionis.  ictum, laesam esse aliquam partem internam necesse est, quanquam fractura vel ossis depressio extra non appareat.  
If blood issue foorthby the nostrils, cares, or mouth, after a fall or stroke, it must needs be that some inward part be hurt, although the fracture or depression of the bone appear not outwardly.  
Fractura cranij in plenilunio est verenda.  
A fracture of the skull in the full of the moon is to be feared.  
In fractura cranij, terminus ad centum dies, vel secundum alios, ad 46.  
A fracture in the skull is cured in a hundred days, or as some say in 46.  
Cubitus firmatur plurimum diebus. 30. 
Cubid fractura.   
A fracture in the cubit is for the most part cured in thirty days.  
Brachium & tibia si ritè curentur diebus circiter 40. occalescunt. 
Brachium & Tibia.   
Fractures in the arm or leg, if they be rightly cured, are confirmed in 40. days.  
Costa post unum & vigesimum diem ferrumen implet. 
Costa.   
A fracture in a rib, is in 21. days souldred.  
Corporibus macilentis fracturae perbellè sanantur. 
Corporibus macilentis fracturae. Florescente inventute fracturae.   
Fractures in lean bodies are easy to be cured.  
Florescente iuuentute fracturae modico negotio curantur.  
Fractures in flourishing youth are easy to be cured.  
Quaecunque fracturae ijs insunt corporibus quibus requies 
Corporibus requiem habentibus.  benigna conceditur facilè admittunt curationem.  
Fractures in those bodies that may rest, are easy to be cured.  
Fracturaeomnes iuncturis vicinae aegrè solidantur. 
Circa iuncturas.   
A fracture near the joint is heart to be cured.  
Os frustatim comminutum difficilè coalescit. 
Os frustatim comminutum.   
A bone broken all to shivers is hardly cured.  
Os in naribus perfractum decem dierum spatio consolidescit. 
Narium fractura.   
A fracture in the nostrils doth consolidate within the space of ten days.  
Fractura quae cum dolore, vel inflammatione, aut carnis 
Cum dolore inflammatione, aut carnis contusione.  contusione incidit mala est.  
A fracture with pain, inflammation or confusion of the flesh, is evil.  
Fractura in decrepitis & cholericis, ac ijs vicissim qui serò 
In decrepitis & cholericis.  aegrotabunt, cura longa commoratur.  
Fractures in old and choleric persons, and those especially which are sick towards night, are hard to be cured.  
Fractura per longum interuallum non restituta aegrè curatur. 
Fractura inveterata.   
A fracture long unrestored, is hardly after cured.  
Fractura transuersim os secans, perfacilis curationis. 
Transuersim os secans.   
A fracture overthwart the bone is easy of curation.  
Fractura symptomatis privata facilè curatur. 
Symptomatis privaca.   
A fracture without accidents, is easy to be cured.  
Fere intra 14. & 21. diem sanescunt, maxilla, iugulum, scapula, 
Maxilla, iugulum, scapula, os tali, calx, manus, & planta.  os tali, calx, manus, planta.  
A fracture in the jaw, cannell bone, shoulder-blade, hecle, hand, and middle of the foot, is commonly cured within 14. or 21. days.  
Inter 27. & 40. diem humeri & foemora sanescunt. 
Humeri & foemora.   
Fractures in the arm and thigh, are cured between 27. and 40. days.  
Coxa diebus quinquaginta coalescit. 
Coxa.   
The Hip is restored in fifty days.  
Pes sexaginta dierum spatio, si quiescat, consanescat. 
Pes.   
A fracture in the foot, if it may have rest, is cured in 60. days.  
Fractura ulnae vel radij, si per se contingat, amborum 
Vlnae vel radij.  comminutione pericu losior est.  
If one of the bones of the arm be broken only, it is more dangerous than the breaking of them both together.  
Fracto membro applicanda sunt doloris sedativa & apostemationis 
Medicamina fracto membro applicata.  removentia.  
The medicines which are applied to fractures ought to assuage pain, and remove impostumation.  
Frigus, convulsiones, tetanoes, denigrationes, rigores febriles 
Frigus.  efficit.  
Cold causeth Cramps, stiffness of the sinews, blackness and feverous shiverings.  
Frigus inimicum est ossibus, neruis, cerebro & dorsali medullae.  
Cold hurteth the bones, the sinews, the brain, and the marrow of the back.  
Frigida sistunt sanguinem posita juxta partes sanguinolentas.  
Cold things do stay blood, being laid nigh the bloody parts.    

G  
GAngraena difficulter curatur, & si transit in sphacelum, non nisi per sectionem sanatur.  
Gangraena is hard to be cured, and if it turn to Sphacelus, it cannot be cured but by incision.  
Si carnem & neruum usque ad os laedat, non curatur.  
If Gangraena hurt the sinews and flesh even to the bone, it is uncurable.   

H  
HAemorrhagia provenit aut per abundantiam, aut erosionem 
unde provenit.  vasorum.  
Flux of blood cometh either by abundance, or by corroding of the vessels.  
Haemorrhagia quae provenit propter debilitatem cerebri 
Propter debilitatem cerebri.  vix aut nunquam curatur.  
Flux of blood which cometh by weakness of the brain, is hard or never cured.  
Haemorrhagia è naribus quae extendit se ultra libras quatuor 
Haemorrhagioe è naribus quantitas.  est mala, & si ultra octo, est pessima, & si extendit se usque ad xx. vel xxiv. ultra vivere non potest.  
Bleeding at the nose, if it exceed four pound is evil, and if it come to eight it is most bad, and if it extend to twentìe or four and twenty pound, he cannot live any longer.  
Haemorrhagia quae ducit ad colorem pallidum aut viridem, 
Ducens ad colorem pallidun aut viridem aut lividum aut fuscum.  aut lividum, aut fuscum, pessima est & mortalis.  
Bleeding which changeth the colour to be pale, green, swartish, or sallow, is very evil and deadly.  
Haemorrhagia ducens ad syncopem, & si sit cum frigiditate 
Ducens ad syncopem.  extremitatum est mortalis.  
Flux of blood which causeth sounding, is deadly: or if it be with coldness of the outward parts, it is also deadly.  
Haemorrhagia quae venit subitò & cum impetu, est mala, 
Haemorrhagia subito accidens.  si verò contingit cum allevatione patientis, est bona.  
Bleeding at nose that cometh suddenly and violently, is evil: but if the patiented be lightened by it, it is good.  
Haemorrhagia narium menstruis deficientibus, bonum. 
Menstruis deficientibus prodest.   
Bleeding at the nose is profitable to them which want menstrua.  
Sanguis è naribus profluens, & aluus turbida, tollit surditatem. 
Tollit surditatem.   
Bleeding at the nose and looseness of the belly, taketh away deaffnes.  
Haemorrhagia in Haemorrhoidibus bonum. 
Haemor●hoydibus valet.   
Bleeding at the nose to them that have the Hemorhoydes, is very good.  
Conuulsio ab hemorrhagia lethal. 
Conuulsio ab haemorrhagia.   
The Cramp coming after flux of blood is deadly.  
Fluxus haemorrhoidalis si sit temperatus, facit multa iwamenta, & praeseruat à multis a gritudinibus melancholicis 
Aegritudines à quibus ●lu●us haemorrhoidalis praeseruat, temperatus tamen.  adustis, & corruptis, sicut est mania, melancholia, pleuresis, lepra, morphea, hydropisis, ptisis, malum mortuum, quartana, passio splenis, etc.  
If the flux of the Hemorhoydes be temperate, it bringeth many commodities, and preserveth the body from adustion of humours: and many melancholic and corrupt diseases, as Madness, Melancholte, Pleurisy, Leprosy, morphew, Dropsy, phthisic, Malum morbum, a quartain ague, diseases of the Spleen, and such like.  
Si ●luant ultra temperamentum, omnes praedictas aegritudines 
Fluxus haemor●hoydalis intemperatus.  generant.  
If the hemorrhoids do slow beyond the measure of the constitution, it bringeth all the aforesaid diseases.  
Fluxus Hemorrhoidum temperatus cognoscitur cum 
Fluxus haemorrhoydum temperati cognitio.  sentiunt se allevatos & melius comedentes.  
The temperate flux of the hemorrhoids is known when the patiented feeleth him somewhat light and eased withal, and hath a good appetite to his meat.  
Cum autem sentiunt se graviores, cum malitia appetitus, 
Fluxus haemorrhoydum superflu● cognitio.  & cum foedo colore, tunc iam superfluit fluxus, quare statim constringendus est.  
But when the patiented feeleth himself sad and heavy, with naughty appetite, and filthy colour, it is a sign that the flux hath passed the just temperature: and therefore it ought to be stayed presently.  
hemorrhoids curant melancholiam & nephrtiicam 
Melancholiam & neph●eticam passionem curant. Fluxus antiquus.  passionem.  
The hemorrhoids do cure melancholy & pain of the back.  
Si fluxus haemorroidum sit antiquus non omnes subitò restringantur, sed una remaneat aperta.  
If flux of the Hemorrhoyd veins hath continued long, they ought not all to be suddenly stayed, but one must be left open.  
Curati citius pereunt, non curati, i. paliati longo tempore 
Cura.  viwnt.  
They that be cured of the hemorrhoids of long continuance do die soon, but if they be not cured but kept open, they live long.  
Hernia carnosa raro aut nunquam sine incisione curatur.  
Hernia carnosa is hard or never cured without incision.  
Hernia ventosa cruciatus ingentes febrimque excitat, & nisi accuratè respicitur periculosa valde est.  
Hernia ventosa bringeth great torments, and a Fever, and except the carefully looked unto, it is very dangerous.  
Hernia aquosa si semel testem humore suo vilescit, difficilè aut nunquam absque incisione medetur.  
Hernia aquosa, if once the humour hath defiled the testicle, it is hardly or never cured without incision.  
Hernia varicosa propter varices inflatas & circa testiculam incrassatas difficillimè absque incisione sanatur.  
Hernia varicosa by reason of the swelled veins that are puffed up, and thickened about the testicle, is hard to be cured without incision.  
Hernia zirbialis inveterata rarò aut nunquam sine incisione curatur.  
Hernia zirbialis of long continuance, is hardly or never cured without incision.  
Hernia intestinalis in senibus difficilè curatur.  
Hernia intestinalis in old persons is hard to be cured.  
Hernia humoralis inveterata testem putrescit, ideoque non nisi per incisionem curatur.  
Hernia humoralis of continuance doth putrefy the testicle, therefore it can not be cured without incision.  
Hernia inguinalis saepenumero in apostemationem degenerate, in fine quoque si non celeriter succuratur, in fistulam vel ulcus cancrosum vadit.  
Hernia inguinalis turneth oftentimes into impostumation, and in the end, if it be not speedily cured, it either becometh to be a fistula, or a canckrous ulcer.  
Hernia saniosa difficillimè nisi in principio auxiliatur, quoniam materia eius venenosa, non solum unum testiculum in quo oritur, verum etiam alterum corrumpit.  
Hernia saniosa is hardly cured, except it be taken in time, for the poisoned matter therein contained, doth not only corrupt the testicle which it began in, but also put●●fieth the other.  
Hernia zirbialis, intestinalis & ventosa, semper si tempestiuè accipiantur, victus ratione & ligatura convenienti aut levantur aut penitus sanantur.  
Hernia zirbialis, intestinalis & ventosa, are always eased or cured by trusses, in time, and by good diet.  
Hernia ventosa medicamentis calefacientibus & slatum discutientibus curatur.  
Hernia ventosa is cured by medicines warming and dissolving wind.  
Hernia aquosa per actuale cauterium inter bursam & testiculum optimè curatur.  
Hernia aquosa is best cured by an actual cautery between the cod and the testicle.  
Omnis hernia initio, praesertim in pueris facillime curatur.  
Every rapture in the beginning, especially in children, is easy to be cured.  
Omnis hernia cum dolore ac inguinum tumore difficilè curatur.  
Every rapture with pain and swelling of the flanks, is hard to be cured.  
Hernia cum Hydrope let hale est.  
A rapture with a dropsey is deadly.  
Hernia nulla per incisionem, sine unius testiculi amissione curatur.  
There is no rapture cured by incision, but that one of the testicles is taken away.  
Hernia ultra septem dies, antiquata appellatur, quoniam tunc labia vulneris interius indurata sunt.  
A rapture after seven days is called old, because then the lips of the breach in wardly are hardened.  
Relaxatio sine incisione in principio facilè curatur.  
A relaxation is easily cured in the beginning without incision.  
Relaxatio facilius quam hernia completa curatur.  
A relaxation is easier cured than a rapture complete.  
Differentia inter relaxationem & rupturam hoc modo cognoscitur, si aliquis stet supra pedes suos & impellat anhelitum versus inferiora, si de facili tunc descendant intestina inferius, ruptus est, si non, relaxatus est.  
The difference between a relaxation and a rapture, is thus known, let him that doubteth, by reason of some strain, whether he be broken or no, stand upon his feet, and force his breath towards the inferior parts, if then the entrails do easily descend downwards, he is broken, if not, he is but relaxed.  
Lues venerea se omnibus coniungit aegritudinibus, aegritudinesque 
Lues venerea.  omnes in genere secum associate.  
Lucs vencrea joineth with all diseases, and all diseases do join with it.  
Lucs venerea con●agiosa est, si cum mulieribus immundis coitu accidit.  
This disease is contagious, if it chanceth through carnal copulation with unclean women.  
Causa antecedens est quando humores per malignitatem, 
Causa anteccdens.  & morbi contagiosi venenosam qualitatem corripiuntur.  
The antecedent cause is, when the humours are defiled by the malignity and venomous quality of the disease being contagious.  
Causa primitiva est coitus cum mulieribus immundis atque 
Causa primitiva.  foedis, pustulas venenosas in utero habentibus.  
The primitive cause of this disease, is carnal company with unclean and filthy women, having venomous pustles in their secret parts.  
Postquam lues venerea in secretis partibus oritur, adeò venenosa est, ut per totum corpus transit, a capite ad pedes.  
After lues venerea hath begun in the secret parts, it is so venomous, that it spreadeth through the whole body, from the head to the foot.  
Sanguis in lue venerea universaliter corrumpitur, ideoque 
Producit, pustulas, scabies venenosas squamasque c●ustosas.  pustulas, scabies venenosas, squamasque crustosas producit.  
In lues venerea the blood is corrupted through the whole body, and so produceth pustles, venomous scabs, and crusty scales.  
In luis venereae curatione, neque anodina, neque paliativa 
Quae medicine fugienda sunt in luis vene●cae curatione. Lentigines.  medicamenta adhibeantur.  
In the cure of lues venerea, neither assuaging, nor palliative medicines are to be used.  
Lentigines sunt infectiones cutis faciei, ut plurimum, & aliquando cutis totius corporis.  
Freckles are infections (for the most part) of the skin of the face, and sometimes of the skin of the whole body.  
In lentiginibus si corpus fuerit universaliter multum repletum 
I en●i●i●●● in co●po●en ●●tum rep●●●o.  fiat phlebotomia de basilica.  
In a sreckled body, if the body be much replete universally, it is good to open the basilica vain.  
Si autem non fuerit tanta repletio, & infectio fuerit in toto 
Si suent in to to corpore, si in fancy.  corpore fiat de Mediana, & si in fancy fiat de Cephalica.  
But if there be no such repletion, and the infection be through the whole body, then open Mediana: but if it be only in the face open Cephalica.  
Scarificationes in tibijs, aut inter spatulas, aut sub mento 
Bona utenda in lentige●●bus.  multum valent in lentiginibus.  
For freckles, scarifications of the legs, or betwixt the shoulderblades, or under the chin, do greatly profit.  
Lepra est morbus consimilis corrumpens figuram & formam, 
Lepra.  & compositionem membrorum & finaliter soluens continuum, proveniens de materia melancholica sparsa per totum corpus.  
The Leprosy is a disease of like manners, corrupting the figure, form and composition of the members: and finally making breach of continuity, it cometh of melancholic matter dispersed through the whole body.  
Lepra postquam venit ad manifestam corruptionem formae 
Lepra ad manifestam corruptionem accedens.  & figurae non curabitur, sed vitam prolongare possumus, & impedire cum medicaminibus, ne materia venenosa & melancholica, ad cor & membra principalia vadat.  
After that the Leprose cometh to manifest corruption of the form and figure, it is uncurable: but we may prolong life, and hinder by medicines that the venomous and melancholic matter come not to the heart and principal members.  
Lepra incipit primò ab interioribus, & postea manifestabitur 
Leprae initium.  in fancy & extremitatibus, & iterata revertitur ad interiora; & tunc est mors, quia membra nobilia ruinam sustinere non possunt.  
The Leprosy beginneth first from the inward parts, and after is discerned in the face and outward parts, and being renewed turneth to the inward parts again; and then cometh death, because the principal members cannot sustain ruin.  
Lippitudo obesis corporibus & aetate confectis sine aliquo 
Lippitudo.  incomodo nunquam curatur.  
Blearedness in fat and old persons is never cured without a discommodity.   

M  
De Medicamentis.  
MEdicamina calida corporibus siccis macilentisque applicata 
Medicamina 〈…〉.  calorem humiditatémque naturalem extingunnt.  
Hot medicines applied to dry and lean bodies, do extiuguish natural heat and moisture.  
Desiccantibus non indigent quatuor haec, viz. ulcus contusum, 
Desiccantibus non indigent 4. hac.  distractum, dolorosum, & apostemosum.  
These four noede no desiccatives: that is to say, an ulcer with contusion, an ulcer with distracted lips, an ulcer with pain or impostumation.  
Nimis infrigidantia, ulcera nigri coloris, & cerulei reddunt. 
Infrigidantia nimia.   
Excessive cooling medicines do cause uleets to be black and blue of colour.  
Incarnativa abstergere minimè debent. 
Incarnantia.   
Incarnatives ought not to wipe.  
Incarnantia antequam mundificandi vim habent, applicata, supers●uam carnositatem generant.  
Intarnatives used before mundificatives, do cause proud flesh.  
Quae ad inijciendum conveniunt necesse habent ut cum 
Ad 〈…〉 n●unt.  melle rosarum, allumine, lixivioque vel aqua marina, quoniam talia obscoenitatem absumunt & humorem defendunt, conficiantur.  
Medicines convenient for injections must be made with Mel rosarum, Alum, Lee, or salt-water, because they take away filthy matter, and defend the humour.  
Medicamina locis neruosis, venosis, & arteriosis, vel circa 
Locis, ne●●osi● ven●sis & ar●er●sis vel circa tes●●culos medicamina applicata.  testiculos applicanda, ob earum partium sensibilitatem facillima sint oportet, sed super ligamenta fortiora possint applicari.  
Those medicines which are applied to sinewy, veynie, and arterious places, or about the testicles, aught to be gentle by reason of the sensibility of those parts: but about the ligaments stronger may be used.  
In carne ulcerata si peracutus sit sensus, cavendum à causticis 
Carne ●●●rat● cum sensu per●cu●●.  & ab omnibus peracutis medicamentis.  
In ulcerated flesh, if there be most sharp sense, take heed of caustic and all sharp medicines.  
Corpora imbecilla atque loca sensibilia leues medicinas 
Corpora imbecilla atque loca sensibilia.  applicari quaerunt.  
Weak bodies and tender places do require soft and gentle medicines.  
Medicamina unctuosa minime conveniunt, nisi aliorum 
Medicamina vn●tno●a.  acuitatum auferendi causa.  
Unctuous medicines are not convenient, except for the taking away of others sharpness.  
Medicamen incarnans desiccare quoque oportet ac aliquantum 
Medicam●● incarna●s.  excedere naturale membri temperamentum.  
An incarnative medicine ought also to dry, and somewhat to exceed the natural temperature of the member.  
Concavi ulceris cura per exiccationem & mundificationem 
Concavi ulceris cura.  aggreditur.  
A hollow ulcer is cured by exiccatives and mundificatives.  
Medicamina exiccantia teneris humidisque corporibus 
Medicamina exiccantia.  consentiunt.  
Exiccative medicines are expedient for tender and moist bodies.  
Membra humida magna exiccatione non egent. 
Membra humida.   
Moist members need not great drying.  
Desiccantia & cicatrizantia, non autem mollificantia, ulceribus 
Medicinae quoe conveniunt ulceribus mulie●um in partibus pudibundis.  mulierum, in partibus pudibundis, conveniunt.  
Desiccative and cicatrizing medicines are convenient for ulcers about the privities of women: and not mollificatives.  
Exiccantia admittit sanies tenuis & acuta▪ è contra crassa 
Sanies tenuis & acuta, crassa & densa.  & densa abstergentia.  
Thin and sharp matter requireth exiccatives: and contrarily thick and gross, abstersives.  
Vlceribus conferentia tum exiccare tum abstergere debent. 
Vlceribus conferentia.   
Those medicines which do both dry and wipe are most expedient for ulcers.  
Digerentia vulneribus detritis in primis, posteaque quae 
Vulneribus detritis quae utenda sunt.  mundificandi vim habent adhibeantur.  
Digestives must first of all be used to bruised wounds, and afterward mundificatives.  
Incarnantia vulneribus concavis ante ea quae consolident 
Vulneribus concavis.  expediunt.  
Incarnatives are expedient to be used in hollow wounds before consolidatives.  
Quaecunque per triduum nihil valent, adhibita, postquam 
Nota generalis.  reijcienda.  
Those medicines which in three days compass prevail nothing, are afterward to be rejected.  
Melancholia aut spargitur ad totum corpus, aut ad partem: 
Melancholia quomodo corpus excitat. Feb▪ melanchol. Lepra. Morph●●.  si ad totum, aut putrefit aut non: si putrefiat, tum generatur febris melancholica: si non putrefiat, tunc aut mittitur ad carnem aut cutem; si ad carnem, generat Lepram, si ad cutem, morpheam.  
Melancholy is either dispersed through the whole body, or to part thereof: if it be sent to the whole body, it doth either putrefy, or not: if it putrefy, than it causeth a melancholic Fever: if it do not putrefy, than it is sent either to the flesh, or to the skin; if it be sent to the flesh, it engendereth the Leprosy; if it be sent to the skin, it causeth the morphew.  
Melancholia est matter caecitatis, apoplexiae, spasmi & 
Caecitatem apoplexiam spasmum & furorem excitat.  furoris.  
Melancholy is the mother of blindness, apoplexy▪ cramps, and madness.  
Melancholiae signa sunt metus & tristitia. 
Melancholiae signa.   
The signs of melancholy are fear and sadness.  
Membri alicuius amputatione tria praecipue sunt consideranda. 
Membri amputatione considerationes.   
In the cutting off of any member, three things are chief to be considered.  
Primò, ut fiat sine dolore incisio. 
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First, that the incision be made without pain.  
Secundò, ut sanguinis vitetur fluxus. 
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Secondly, that flux of blood may be eschewed.  
Tertio, ut cauterizetur sive actualiter, sive potentialiter, 
●  tam exiguo cum dolore ut arte inveniri queat.  
Thirdly, that the cautery either actual or potential be done with as little pain as may be devised by art.  
Morphea est cutis defoedatio maculosa. 
Morphea.   
The morphew is a spotty filthiness of the skin.  
Si morphea fuerit novella, curabilis est, si antiqua, incurabilis 
Vtrum morphea sit cura  est: vel cum magna difficultate. 
bilis aut incurabilis.   
If the Morphew be of small continuance, it is curable, but if it be of long continuance, it is hardly or never cured.  
Si morphea occupaverit modicum spatium, curabilis est, si magnum, difficilis.  
If the Morphew be contained in small space, it is curable, but if it spread very far, it is hard to be cured.  
Si locus morpheatus pungatur cum acu in superficie cutis, ita ut non profundetur ultra cutem & sanguis exierit, curabilis est, si autem aquositas, incurabilis est, aut cum magna difficultate.  
If the place that is affected with the morphew be pricked with a needle in the upper part of the skin (so that it go not past the skin) and that the blood doth issue out, it is curable, but if moisture come forth, it is hard or never cured.  
In morphea a principio, sanguine dominante aut corpore 
Phlebotomia in morphea.  plethorico existent, materiaque morpheae in venis adhuc remanente bene potest fieri phlebotomia, sed postquam notabiliter apparet extra, & aegritudo sit confirmata, nullo modo adhibeatur, quia materia traheretur ab externis ad interiora.  
In the morphew, blood-letting may well be used, at the beginning when blond doth abound, or in a body full of evil humours, and the matter of the morphew remaining yet in the veins, but after it doth manifestly appear outwardly, and that the disease be confirmed, blood-letting may in no wise be used, because the matter thereby would be drawn from the outward parts inwardly.  
Membrorum durities a tribus casibus evenit, nempe a calore nimio, ab humorum coagulatione & a repletion.  
There be three causes of hardness in any member, as great heat, the impaction of humours coagulated, and fullness.  
Cognita, & usu ac ratione probata, remedia, ignotis ac nunc primum inventis sunt praeponenda.  
Those medicines which are known and approved both by reason and experience, are to be preferred before those which are unknown, and but newly invented.  
Non verbis sed remedijs convenienter usurpatis restituitur sanitas.  
Health is not restored by words, but by medicines conveniently used.  
Scientia sine experientia haud magnam medico apud aegrum fiduciam conciliat.  
Knowledge without practice, winneth to the Physician small credit of his Patient.  
Praxis est operatio, theoriae regulis & legibus confentiens.  
Practice is an operation agreeable to the rules and laws of Theoric.  
Artifex qui magnum aliquid & laud dignum praestare vult, in notitiam proprij subiecti diligenter debot incumbere.  
That workman which would show some great things that is praiseworthy, let him diligently apply himself to the knowledge of his proper subject.  
Boni medici officium est morbum sanare, aut certe in meliorem statum, & eum, quem natura fert, deducere.  
It is the office of a good artist to heal the disease, or to bring it into a better state, and that which agreeth to nature.  
Qui artis operibus, doctisque de arte lectionibus frequens non interfuit: hocque solo, quod multa legerit, se pro nobili chirurgo venditat, long fallitur, & impudens est.  
He that hath not been conversant in the works of the Art, nor at the Lectures of the learned, but esteemeth himself for an excellent Surgeon, by this only, that he hath read many things, is far deceived, and very impudent.  
Nihil unquam laud dignum praestabit qui sibi auro non usu chirurgicum magisterium paraverit.  
He shall never perform any thing worthy praise, which obtaineth the degree of a Surgeon by money, and not by use.  
Medicos & chirurgos subinde mutare, aegris raedium non levamen est.  
To change often the Physicians and chirurgeons, is a burdening, and not a lightning to the Patient.  
Etsi in longum tempus se morbus protrahat, non est tamen quod se ab aegro medincus distrahat.  
Although the disease continue a long time, yet it is not for the Physician to withdraw himself from the Patient.  
Magna magnorum vasorum vulnera lethalia censentur.  
Great wounds in the great vessels, are esteemed deadly.  
Vt morbi sic remedij species esse debet.  
As the kinds of the disease are, so ought the kinds of the remedies to be.  
Ossise palato abscessus putroris insert periculum.  
The swelling of the bone out of the palate, bringeth danger of putrefaction.  
Haemorthagiam calor incitat, frigus refraenat.  
Heat moveth bleeding at the nose, but cold restraineth the same.  
Quibus ulcera in cruribus sunt, hos neque ambulare, neque stare, neque sedere, sed in lecto quiescere oportet.  
They that have ulcers in their legs, must neither walk, stand, nor sit, but lie in their bed.  
Mordacia & acria omnia medicamina mundis ulceribus sunt infensa.  
All manner sharp and biting medicines are hurtful to clean ulcers.  
Austro flante vulneratorum membrorum prompta est syderatio.  
When the Southern wind bloweth, the parts are more disposed to putrefaction.  
Vlcera rotunda nisi in aliam figuram deducta fuerint non facilè coalescunt.  
Round ulcers, except they be reduced into another figure, are hardly cured.  
Vlcus erysipelatosum purgationem per inferiora postulat.  
An ulcer with Erysipelas requireth purging by the inferior parts.  
Nemini nisi abdominoso tristitia prodest.  
Sadness is profitable to none, save only to them that are corpulent and foggy.  
Ignavia calorem naturalem debilitat & extinguit.  
Slothfulness weakeneth and extinguisheth natural heat.  
Morbi frigidi senibus sunt infensi ac solutu contumaces: invenibus vero non ita infesti & rebels.  
Cold diseases are hurtful to old men, and very hard to be resolved: but to young men not so troublesome and rebellious.   

O  
OEdema ut plurimum terminatur per resolutionem 
Eius terminatio.  seu exhalationem, raro per suppurationem, saepissimè per conversionem seu permutationem in nodos & alia apostemata.  
Oedema for the most part is cured by resolving or evaporation, seldom by suppuration, and very often by turning or changing into knots or other impostumes.  
Quandiu lippa est aquosa & subtilis, aegritudo est in principio, 
Principium.  & cum incipit ingrossari & dealbari tunc est in augmento, & cum lippa est multa, claudens palpebras, 
Augmentum. Status.  tunc est status: & cum incipit minui, tunc est declinatio: & lippa quae habet frusta parva est mala, sicut dicit Auicenna.  
When the blearedness is waterish and thin, than the dise ace is in the beginning: and when it waxeth thick and white, than it is in the augmentation: and when the blearedness is great, closing the eyelids, than it is in the state; and when that beginneth to diminish, than it is in the declining: and blearedness which hath little pieces is evil, as Avicen saith.  
Opthalmia quae est in hieme cum particularibus concurrentibus 
Opthalmia in hieme.  in frigiditate, tardius venit & tardius recedit, & est magis periculosa propter clausionem pororum.  
That Opthalmia which chanceth in winter with particulars concurring in coldness, happeneth slowly and goeth away slowly, and is more dangerous by reason of the shutting of the pores.  
Illa autem quae est in aestate, citius venit & citius recedit. 
Opthalmia in aestate.   
That Opthalima which is in Summer time, cometh sooner, and goeth away sooner.  
Opthalmia si malè curetur malas reliquias dimittit sicut 
Reliquie opthalmiaes.  est macula, pannus, tela, & ita de alijs.  
If Opthalmia be not well cured, it leaveth behind it evil relics, such as is the bloody spot, pannicle, web, and such like.  
Opthalmia quae antiquatur, in qua non proficiunt medicamina, est pessima inter omnes, quoniam significatur humor corruptus inviscatus, corrumpens nutrimentum.  
Opthalmia, that is inveterated wherein medicines are not available is the worst of all, because it signifieth a corrupt slimy humour corrupting the nourishment.  
Si panaritio non subitò succurritur, corrumpit primam iuncturam digiti, quae cum osse deperditur & manat ab eo sanies subtilis foetida, quando ad putredinem devenit.  
If a fellow be not speedily helped, it putrifleth the first joint of the finger, which together with the bone is utterly lost, and when it cometh to putrefaction there floweth from it thin stinking matter.  
Infrigidantia à principio sunt applicanda ad confirmationem 
Medican i●a qua panant●● sunt applicanda à 〈…〉  prohibendam, sed post principium eorum usus inculcat materiam, & auget dolorem.  
Cold things must be applped in the beginning to hinder the confirming of the grief, but the use of them after the beginning, impacteth the matter and increaseth the pain.  
Si videris hoc apostema ad exituram disponi, applica maturantia, & cura eo modo, quo aliae exiturae curantur.  
If you perceive this impostume to grow to a tumour, apply maturatives, and cure it in that order as other tumours require.  
Verum si dolor intensissimus perseveret, & nullum appareat signum exiturae futurae, find digitum lateraliter ab ungue usque ad os, & statim sedabit dolour.  
But if the intolerable pain do remain, and no sign of any tumour appear, then make incision all along the first joint of the finger hard by the side of the nail to the very bone, and presently the pain will cease.  
Omnes pustulae si negligantur & non mundificentur in 
In scabiem convertuntur.  scabiem convertuntur.  
All pustules if they be neglected, and not mundified, they turn into scabs.  
Pustulae si fuerint de causa calida ad impetiginem & serpiginem 
Decausa calida ad imperiginem & serpiginem vergunt.  & alia mala accidentia vergunt.  
Pustules that come of a hot cause do turn to Impetigo, and Serpigo, and other evil accidents.  
Si autem fuerint de phlegmate post scabiem in fistulam convertuntur.  
Pustules that come of phlegm after the Scab do turn to a 
De phlegmate.  Fistula.  
Si fuerint de melancholia difficilè curantur. 
De melancholia.   
Pustules that come of melancholy are hard to be cured.  
Pustulae lividae in ulla part corporis emergentes, citoque 
Pustulae lividae.  evanescentes malum portendunt.  
Pustules that Bee of swartish colour appearing in any part of the body, and suddenly vanishing away, are a sign of eutll.  
Putredo oritur cum vapores humidi in membro includuntur; & ibi adeo impediti sunt, ut evaporari nequeunt.  
Putrefaction cometh when moist vapours are included within the member, so as they cannot cuaporate.  
In putredinem humiditas & calor cito transeunt, si non bono regimine gubernentur.  
Moisture and heat being not well governed, will speedily turn to putrefaction.  
Putredo à narcoticis nonnunquam accidit.  
Putrefaction is often caused by the application of slupefactive medicines.   

S  

De Sanguine.  
SAnguis tenuis, totum per corpus non dispersus, externa 
Sanguis tenuis  sola inflammat, erysipelas nothum generans.  
Thin blood not dispersed through the whose body, ●nslameth the outward parts, causing a bastard Erysipelas.  
Sanguis substantia grossus & calidus carbunculos parit. 
Sanguis grossus & calidus.   
Blood that is gross in substance and hate, causeth Carbuncles.  
Sanguinis naturalis copia phlegmonem parit. 
Sanguis naturalis.   
Abundance of natural blood causeth Biles.   

judicium de sanguine emisso, ex substantia.  
SErum multum tanquam aqua citrina concreto sanguini 
Serum multum.  innatans, vel potum liberaliorem vel iecur infirmum, vel imbecilles renes vel eosdem obstructos ostendit.  
Much whey like unto yellow water, swimming aloft of congealed blood, showeth either much drinking, or a weak liver: or weak or stopped kidneys.  
Spuma innatans nisi fluoris impetu nata est, incendium, 
Spum●  atque feruorem eius humoris monstrat, cuius colorem prae se fert: rubra quidem, sanguinis; flava, bilis▪ alba, pituitae; livida, melancholiae.  
Froth swimming aloft, except it be by the force of the flux, showeth burning and heat of that humour, whose colour it beareth, as if it be red, it cometh of blood, yellow, of choler, white, of phlegm, swartish, of melancholy.  
Sanguinis durescentis color per summa rubicundus, boni 
Colour rub●▪ cundus.  vtilisque sanguinis est index.  
The colour of congealed blood being red above, is a sign of good and profitable blood.  
Sanguini innatat nonnunquam pingue quiddam & adiposum 
Pingued●.  instar telae aranei cohaerens: hoc, si admodum pingue & obesum sit corpus, ex ipso sanguine causam habet, qui est in adipem pronus. Sin corpus strigosius sit minusque obesum, idipsum colliquari & marcescere portendit.  
There swimmeth sometimes in the blood a certain fatness, cleaving together like a Spider's web: if the body be very fat, it was caused of such blood, which is inclined to fatness: but if the body be very lean, the same is a sign of the withering and decay thereof.  
Si diffiso sanguine, grana quaedam arenularum aemula offendantur: 
Gra●● arenularum.  aiunt vel elephantiasin vel ad hanc propensionem notari: quanquam obseruantibus nihil tale deprehensum est.  
If in the blood being cut, certain grains like sand be found, some say it signifieth the Leprosy, or an inclination thereunto, although they that have observed, have not found it any such thing.  
Si sanguinem grauè olere (quod rarum est) contigerit, 
Gra●●●lens.  putredinis corruptionisque immensae est inditium.  
If it chance that the blood stinketh, which happeneth seldom, it is a sign of very great putrefaction and corruption.  
Scabies in decrepitis est difficilis curationis aut impossibilis. 
Scabies in decrepitis.   
The Scab in old age is very hard or unpossible to be cured.  
Scabies foeda vlceratione foetida, multas partes corporis 
Scabies foeda cum vlceratione faetida.  occupans, & corrumpens, habet malam radicem, & approximatur ad malas aegritudines, & difficilis curationis valde.  
A filthy Scab, with stinking ulceration, in many parts of the body corrupting, hath an evil root, and draweth near the nature of evil diseases, being also very hard of curation.  
Scabies si fuerit parva, modicam partem corporis occupans, 
Scabies parva.  sine magna angustia, & non somnum auferens, facilè curabitur, & e contrario contrariè.  
A small Scab, occupying but a little part of the body, without any great anguish, and not diminishing sleep, is easily cured, and contrariwise, contrarily.   

De Strumis.  
Strumae paruae facilius curantur, magnae difficilius. 
Strumae paruae & magnae.   
Small wens are easy to be cured, but great ones are hard.  
Strumae mites facile curam recipiunt, malignae aegrè. 
Strumae mites & malignae.   
Wens without pain and anguish are easy to be cured, but those which are froward, will hardly receive curation.  
Strumae superficiariae facilè sanantur profundoe difficulter. 
Strumae superficiariae & profundae. Stru●ae recentes & inuete●a●ae.   
Those wens which sye near the skin are easy to be cured, but those which lie deep within the flesh, are hard to cure.  
Strumae recentes discuti & resolui possunt, inveteratae discuti & resolui nequeunt.  
Wens of small continuance may be resolved, but those which are inveterated, can not be resolved.  
Dolour & calor ostendunt strumam vel in suppurationem 
Dolour aut calor.  ire vel in fistulam aut cancrum degenerari.  
pain and heat in a wen, declareth the same either to turn to suppuration, or else into a Fistulae or canker.  
Qui brevi atque angusta sunt front, & compressa habent 
Qui stru●●● obnoxij su●●.  tempora, ac maxillas amplas, strumis sunt obnoxij.  
They that have a short and narrow forehead, and their temples compassed with large jaws, are incident to have wens.  
Strumae non facilè maturescunt & plerunque iterum juxta cicatrices ipsas resurgunt.  
Wens are hardly ripened, and oftentimes they do rise again beside the cicatrices.    

T.  
TInea est scabies capitis cum squammis & pilorum euulsione, 
Tinea quid.  & colore cinericeo, & odour foetido & aspectu abhominabili.  
Tinea, or the skall, is a scab of the head, with scales, and falling of the hear, in colour like unto ashes, stinking savour, and in sight abominable.  
Tinea si sit recens tamen cum difficultate curatur. 
Tinea 〈◊〉.   
A skall if it be new, yet is it hard to be cured.  
Si sit antiqua aut nunquam, aut cum labore magno, & in 
Tinea antiqua.  longissimo tempore; quoniam mala complexio venit ad tantam adaequationem, quod quasi non accipit curationem, & ideo si curetur raro ibi pili nascuntur & illa pars semper erit debilior.  
If the skall be old, it is never cured, or with great labour, and in long time, because that evil complexion cometh to such equality, that it cannot almost receive curation, and therefore if it be cured, the hair will seldom grow in that place again, and that part will be always weaker.  
De Tumoribus.  
TVmores ex flegmate nati sunt ut plurimum indolentes. 
Tumores a flegmate.   
Tumours that proceed of phlegm, are for the most part without grief.  
Tumores de atra bile orti semper dolorosi. 
Tumores de ●tra boil.   
Tumours proceeding of melancholy, are always grievous.  
Tumores de flava boil & sanguine nati nunquam dolore destituuntur. 
Tumore de flava boil & sanguine.   
Tumours coming of yellow choler and blood, are never without great pain.  
Tumour durus circa testes, cum carnis excretione, difficulter 
Circa testes tumor durus.  curatur.  
A hard tumour about the testicles, with excretion of the flesh, is hard to be cured.  
Tumour ceruicis promittit salutem in angina. 
Tumour ceruicis.   
A tumour in the throat, betokeneth health in Angina.  
Tumores concocti sunt molles, crudi vero duri. 
Tumore▪ molles & dun.   
Ripe tumours are soft, but unripe are hard.   

V  

De Venae sectione.  
TEmpus in quo venae sectio utenda venit a februario 
Tempus in quo venae sectio sit utenda.  incipit, & rursus a septembri, ad septimum eiusdem perdurans.  
The time when letting of blood must be used, beginneth at February, and again at September, enduring to the seventh day thereof.  
Venam saepius incidere in anno non expedit. 
Saepe in anno venam incidere. Obstructiones curate.   
It is not good to be let blood oft in one year.  
In obstructionibus curandis, ante omnia venam secare oportet, etiamsi plenitudo non adsit.  
In the curing of obstructions, letting of blood before all other is to be used, although there be no fullness.  
Quovis tempore & hora mittere sanguinem necessitas 
Quovis tempore & hora mittere sanguinem.  concedit & jubet.  
If necessity do require, Phlebotomy may be used at any time.  
Non dierum numerus sed unicum virium robur considerandum 
Fit febribus continui●.  in sectione venae febrium continuarum.  
For Phlebotomy in continual Fevers, not the number of days, but only the strength of the party is to be considered.  
A sanguinis missione abstinendum est ubi sanguis bonus 
A sanguinis missione ubi abstinendum.  exiguus est.  
Abstain from Phlebotomy where there is but a little good blood.  
Venae sectio quaecunque & quovis modo facta aequabiliter 
Totum corpu● evacuat.  totum corpus evacuat.  
Every manner of letting of blood doth equally evatuate the whole body.  
Nullus paene morbus, in quo non mittatur sanguis. 
In omni serè morbo valet.   
There is almost no disease wherein Phlebotomy may not be used.  
Vehemens febris, ubi rubet corpus venaeque tument, sanguinis 
Febris vehemens.  detractionem requirit.  
A vehement Fever where the body is red and the veins do swell, requireth letting of blood.  
Si timidè scalpellus dimittatur summam cutem lacerat nec venam incidit.  
If Phlebotomy be done fearfully, it doth but tear the skin and miss the vain.  
Post longam aegritudinem, cavendum à phlebotomia. 
A phlebotomia cavendum.   
After long sickness beware of blood-letting.  
Tempore calidissimo, & frigidissimo, nullo modo fiat 
Tempore calidissimo & frigidissimo.  phlebotomia.  
In extremity of wether, hot or cold, Phlebotomy ought in no wise to be used.  
Ver & autumnus sunt tempora aptissima phlebotomiaes. 
Tempus in quo m●ttatur.   
The Spring and Autumn are most convenient times for blood-letting.  
Aere existent pestilentiali, nubiloso vel turbido aut slante 
Non secetur vena.  vento australi non secetur vena.  
When the air is pestilent, cloudy or troubled, or when the South wind bloweth, do not let blood.  
In aestate octava hora et hieme meridies eligantur in phlebotomia. 
Hora phlebotomy ●ligenda.   
In Summer take eight of the Clock, and in Winter, noon, for the hour of Phlebotomy.  
Si luna sit in signo habente aspectum malum ad aliquod 
Cautela.  membrum non fiat phlebotomia de illo membro.  
If the Moon be in any sign, having an evil aspect to any member, do not let blood on that member.  
Ante Phlebotomiam bonum est exercitari, moveri, e●igilari 
Ante phlebotomiam.  ut sanguis sit mobilior.  
Before blood-letting, it is good to be exercised, to move, and to watch, whereby the blood may be more movable.  
Membrum phlebotomandum est frigandum & calefaciendum, 
Membrum.  cum aqua calida lavandum, ut vena sit apertior & sanguis fluxibilior.  
The member that you will let blood must be chaffed and heated with hot water, that the vain may be more apparent and the blood more fluent.  
Si phlebotomandus est valde debilis comedat prius panem 
●● sit debilis.  & bibat vinum stipticum.  
If a weak body must be let blood, let him eat bread and drink stiptic wine before.  
In aestate & vere fiat phlebotomia in part dextra, autumno 
P●●● qua sanguis emi●itur.  & hieme, sinistra.  
In the Summer and Spring let blood on the right side, and in Autumn and Winter on the left.  
In materia venenosa debet fieri phlebotomia ex eadem 
Materia venosa.  part.  
In venomous matter let blood on the same side.  
Qui annos 60 habent, cephalicam non aperiant. 
Qui annos 60 habent.   
At threescore years let not blood in cephalica.  
Qui senes sunt & aegroti edant iuscula & bibant vinum 
Senes & aegroti.  bonum una vel altera hora ante sectionem.  
Old men and sick persons may eat broth and drink Wine one hour or two before they be let blood.  
Qui facile ac saepe sudant, indigent venae sectione. 
Qui phlebotomia indigent. Sectio conin●ta.   
They that sweat easily and often need blood-letting.  
Sectio consueta non sine periculo praetermittitur.  
Accustomed blood-letting may not be let pass without danger.  
A sectione cibo utere bono, ac tenui, vino subtili, vitans 
Post sectionem.  aquam mulsam, ceruisiam, pisces & quae generant malum sanguinem.  
After blood-letting use good meat, thin diet, thin wine, eschew Honiedwater, Ale, Fish, and those things which engender evil blood.  
Sectio venarum non urgente necessitate obest potius quam prodest.  
Blood let without need urging thereunto, doth more hurt then good.   

De Variolis.  
SI variolae fuerint paucae & cito apparentes & quod cito 
Variolae paucae.  maturentur signa sunt bonae crisis.  
If the measles be few in quantity, soon appearing, and that they be soon ripened, are signs of a good crisis.  
Si vergant ad colorem violaceum, aut lividum, aut viridem 
Ad colorem violaccum, lividum, viridem, aut nigrum vergentes.  aut nigrum, omnes pessimae & mortales.  
If they turn to be blue, or swartish, or green, or black colour, they are very evil and deadly.  
Si autem appareat sanies foetida mortale. 
Sanies foetida.   
But if stinking matter do appear, it is deadly.   

De vulneribus generalis clocutio.  
OMnis solutio facta in membro bonae complexionis, de 
Membri complexio.  facili curatur, sed cum est in corpore male complexionato de difficili curatur.  
Every wound that is made in a member of good complexion is easily cured, but when it is in an evil complexioned body, it is hardly cured.  
Vulnera membrorum radicalium cum deperditione substantiae 
Vulnera membrorum radicalium.  nunquam perfectè restaurantur, sed sine deperditione substantiae bene possunt uniri in pueritia, in alijs aetatibus verò non, sed fit porus in circuitu.  
Wounds in the radical members with loss of substance, are never perfectly restored: but if they be without loss of substance, they may well be united in youth, and not in other ages: but that there remaineth a certain concrete substance in the place.  
Omne vulnus transiens à superficie in superficiem est malum, 
Vulnus transiens à superficie ad superficiem.  quia natura non invenit radicem unde sumat principium.  
Every wound going from one superficially part to another is evil, because nature hath not found out a root from whence she might take her beginning, of healing.  
Si in vulneribus propter nimium fluxum venerit alienatio, 
A●●enatio. Spasmus. Syncope.  est malum, & si spasmus ut plurimum moriuntur; & si syncope cum singultu mors est in ianuis.  
If in wounds, by reason of overmuch flux of blood, there chance alienation of the mind, it is evil; and if a cramp happen, for the most part they die; but if there come sounding, with yesking, death is at the door.  
Vulnera periculo non vacant dum post septimum diem. 
●●ando periculo vacant.   
Wounds are not past danger until after the seventh day.  
Vulnera a dolore & symptomate non asserta sunt, donec 
Quando a dolore & symptomate asserta sunt.  pus concoquitur.  
Wounds are not void of grief and accidents, until the matter be digested.  
Vulneribus magnis tumor non apparens malum. 
Tumoria vulneribus magnis. Vulnera maligna.   
No swelling appearing in great wounds, is very evil.  
Vulnera sunt maligna si sunt undiquaque glabra.  
Those wounds are malign where the hear falleth off round about.  
Vulneribus accidit febris die tertio, vel septimo, aut non. 
Febris quand● accidit.   
To wounds chanceth a Fever in the third or seventh day, or not at all.  
Sanguis in vulneribus congelatus celerimè rèmoveri ooportet, 
Sanguis congelata.  ne dolor aut putrefactio insequatur.  
Blood that is congealed in wounds must be removed with speed, for fear of pain and putrefaction.  
Vulnera in partibus ijs quae assiduo motu aguntur, rarò 
In partibus ijs quae assiduo motu aguntur.  aut nunquam curantur.  
Wounds in those parts which are without rest, will hardly or never receive curation.  
Vulneribus quae incidunt in finibus musculorum maius 
In finibus musculorum.  imminet periculum quam quibus in medio.  
Wounds in the ends of the muscles, are more dangerous, then in the midst.  
Quae in medio musculorum contingunt optimè curantur. 
In medio musculorum.   
Wounds in the midst of the muscles are easy to be cured.  
Vulnera symptomatum expertia parvo nixu curantur. 
Absque symptomatibus.   
Wounds void of accidents, are easy to be cured.  
Vulnus ad os usque penetrans, ossis sanationem primum 
Ossis vulnus.  petit, ante carnem regenerare cupias.  
A wound in the bone requireth the healing thereof before incarnation of the flesh.  
Vulnera ossium, neruorum, cartilaginum, tendinum, 
Ossium, neruorum, cartilaginum, tendinum, panniculorum, venarum, atque arteriarum vi laus. Carnis vulnera.  panniculorum, venarum atque arteriarum secundum primam intentionem restitui ne expectes quidem.  
Wounds in the bones, sinews, gristles, tendons, pannicles, veins, and arteries, may not be looked for to be restored according to the first intention.  
Vulnera carnis prima intentione restitui possunt.  
Wounds in the flesh may be restored by the way of the first intention.  
Vulnus cum carnis diuisione citius curatur quam cum substantiae deperditione.  
A wound with division of flesh only is sooner cured, then with loss of substance.  
Vulneris principio patience, tenui ordiendus est dieta, 
Vulneris principio.  usque ad diem septimum, praesertim si fuerit calidus plethoricus.  
In the beginning of a wound, the Patient must be ordered with a thin diet, until the seventh day, especially if he have a hot and full body.  
Vulnera profunda & magna, nesuito, nam intro materiam 
Profunda & magna vulnera.  corruptam & fortasse venenosam includere periculum est.  
Stitch not great and deep wounds, for that it is in danger to shut in the corrupt and peradventure venomous matter.  
Vulnus contusum, concawm vel discratum, in osse apostema, 
Consolidantia 〈◊〉 non sunt adhibenda.  punctura in neruo, minime consolidari debent.  
A contused hollow wound of distempered, an impostume in the bone, and a prick in the sinew, must be kept open.  
Vulnus lethal est, acceptum in cerebro, cord, pulmone, 
Vulnera lethalia.  diaphragmate, ventriculo, iecore, vesica & tenuibus intestinis.  
A wound is deadly in the brain, heart, lungs, midriff, stomach, liver, bladder, and small guts.  
Vulnera capitis, & stomachi & hepatis, aut splenis aut 
Vulnera quae si parva sint curari possunt.  renum, aut vesicae, aut matricis, aut intestinorum, si 
si magna nunquam aut raro.  sint parva possunt curari, sin magna, nunquam aut raro.  
Wounds in the head, stomach, liver, spleen, kidneys, bladder, matrice, or entrails, if they be small may be cured, if they be great, they will hardly or never be cured.  
Cerebri vulnera, scotoniam, lethargiam, apoplexiam & 
Cerebri vulnera.  tales affectus proferunt.  
Wounds in the brain bring giddiness, lethargies, apoplexies, and such like diseases.  
Si cerebrum vulneretur, sanies est crassa, globosa, & medullaris: 
Signa cerebri vulnera●●.  spumaque ex ore, vertigo, spasmus, febris, vomitus bilis, stupor & desipientia sequuntur.  
If the brain be wounded, the matter is thick, round, and mareylike: and foaming at the mouth, giddiness, cramps, fevers, vomiting of choler, astonishment, and dotage do follow.  
Cum cerebrum vehementer concutitur, vox amittitur.  
When the brain is sore shaken, speech is taken away.  
Cerebro corrupto mors post triduum sequitur.  
The brain being corrupted, death followeth within three days.  
Vulnera capitis, cranio valente vel haud multum diminuto, 
Capitis vulnera cranio valente.  curatu sunt facilia.  
Wounds in the head where cranium is sound or not much diminished, are easy to be cured.  
Nigrities in partibus vulneri adiacentibus, convulsio 
Signa mala.  paralisis, ciborum abstinentia corporisque frigiditas, praesagiunt malum & paene insanabile.  
blackness in the parts near unto the wound, the cramp, palsy, eschewing of meat, and universal coldness of the whole body, are evil signs, and almost uncurable.  
Concoctio bona, vulneris rubedo, ossis albedo, cum 
Signa bona.  humiditatis repletione in partibus adiacentibus & ciborum appetitus, bonum ac sanabile prognosticant.  
Good dgestion, redness of the wound, whiteness of the bone, with fullness of moisture about the parts adjacent, and appetite to meat, doth prognosticate good, and healthfulness to the wound.  
Cum magnis capitis vulneribus non bonum est versari in plenilunio.  
It is not good to be overbusy with great wounds in the head in the full of the moon.  
Amigdalae propter vaporosum quendam effectum ijs insitum, 
Amigdalae.  vulneribus capitis sunt nocivae.  
Almonds are hurtful for wounds in the head, by reason of a certain fu●●osity in them naturally contained.  
Vinum vulneribus capitis vel neruosis nisi imminet magna 
Vinum.  debilitas, malum.  
Wine is nought for wounds in the head and sinews, except there be great weakness.  
In carnosis faciei partibus vulnera facilimè curantur. 
Faciei vulnera.   
Wounds in the fleshy parts of the face are easy to be cured.  
Oculorum vulnera sunt periculosa tum propter ipsum 
Oculorum vulnera.  visum tum propter cerebri vicinitatem; caeterum si effundantur humores, sequitur destructio oculi.  
Wounds in the eyes are dangerous both in respect of the sight, and also of the vicinity of the brain, but if the humours do run out, then followeth destruction of the eye.  
Oculi rubei, etiam inflati, internam capitis laesionem 
Signa partium internarum laesionis.  significant: quod si bilis, primo, vel secundo, vel tertio die, vel deinceps vomitio appareat, laesionem internarum partium significat, non cerebri, sed meningum.  
If the eyes be red and swollen, it signifieth the inward parts of the head to be hurt: not the brain, but dura matter is hurt, if choler in the first, second, or third day, or afterward be vomited.  
Vulnera oculorum febres, apostemata, & lippitudines 
Oculorum vulnera.  adferunt.  
Wounds in the eyes bring Fevers, Impostumes, and blearedues.  
Aurium vulnera lethargiam & fistulas perducunt. 
Aurium vulnera.   
Wounds in the ears bring forgetfulness and fistulas.  
coli vulnera periculo non vacant: is enim locus est maiorum neruorum.  
Wounds in the neck are not free from danger, because it is the place of great sinews.  
coli vulnera magis ambigui sunt quàm faciei. 
coli vulnera.   
Wounds of the neck are more doubtful than those of the face.  
Si neruus in collo incidatur motus perit.  
If a sinew in the neck be cut, some motion perisheth.  
Vulnera in scapulis periculosa sunt respectu neruorum ab 
In scapulis vulnera.  nucha, & brachij iuncturarum, musculorúmque.  
Wounds in the shoulderblades are dangerous, by reason of the sinews coming from the back, and by reason of the joints and muscles of the arm.  
Vulnera magna in scapulis adferunt febres, spasmum, paralisim, apostemata cum immenso humorum influxu.  
Great wounds upon the shoulderblades bring Fevers, Cramps, Palsies, Impostumes, with great inflowing of humours.  
Dorsi vulnera spasmos, febres, & mentis perturbationes 
Dorsi vulnera.  gignunt.  
Wounds in the back bone bringeth Cramps, Fevers, and perturbation of the mind.  
Vulnus ad spinalem medullam pertingens mortale & incurabile; 
Ad spinalem medullam pertingens vulnus.  si verò non perveniat ad medullam, licet sit curabile, timendum tamen est proper laesionem neruorum orientium ab illa part nuchae; & propter nocumentum sensus, & motus eorum membrorum, ad quae isti nerui delegantur.  
A wound in the spinal marrow is deadly and uncurable; but if it come not to the marrow, although it be curable, yet it is to be feared, for hurting of the sinews, springing from that part of the back: and so for hurting the sense and motion of the members whereinto these sinews are sent.  
Vulnera pulmonum, pthisim, peripneumoniam & fistulas 
Pulmonum.  procreant.  
Wounds in the Lungs bring consumption and inflammation of the Lungs, and fistulas.  
Pulmones esse vulneratas indicia haec sunt: sanguis rubicundus 
Signa pulmones vulneratas esse.  est spumosus, sputum cruentum spumosum, tussis, rumour in gutture, brevis anhelitus, praesertim si vox pereat, aut cum sono spiritus reddatur, & si inclinans in vulnus aeger loquatur, & in aliam partem obmutescat.  
The signs that the Lungs be wounded are these, viz. red and frothy blood, bloody and frothy spittle, a cough, noise in the throat, short breath; especially if the voice do fail, or the breath be delivered with rattling, also if bending toward the wound the patiented speak, but bending himself otherwise cannot speak.  
Diaphragmatis vulnera spasmos, anhelitus difficultatem, 
Diaphragmatis vulnera.  & acutas febres perducunt.  
Wounds in the midriff bring Cramps, straightness of breath and sharp Fevers.  
Signa diaphragmatis vulnerati, sunt, spiratio magna & 
Signa diaphragmatis vulnerati.  frequens, tussis cum sternutatione, alienatio, sputum lividum, sitis, cibi fastidium, rigour, & vulnus circa nothas costas.  
The signs that Diaphragma is wounded are these, great and thick breathing, a cough with snorting, alienation of the mind, swartish spittle, thirst, loathing of meat, stiffness, and the wound being about the false ribs.  
Hepatis vulnera inflammationes, apostemata, & sanguineos 
Hepatis vulnera.  eosque continuos fluxus perducunt.  
Wounds in the Liver bring inflammations, Impostumes and continual fluxes of blood.  
Si in part dextra & prope nothas costas vulnus sit & multus 
Signa hae●●tis laes●.  sanguis perfluit crassus, iecur laesum esse conijcimus.  
If the wound be in the right side and near unto the false ribs and that great quantity of thick blood issue out, we conjecture the Liver to be hurt.  
Pectoris vulnera non intus penetrantia facilè curantur; & 
Pectoris vulnera.  è contrario contrariè.  
Wounds of the breast not piercing into the bulk, are easy of curation: and contrariwise contrarily.  
Cordis vulnera lethalia sunt, quia est effector vitalis spiritus 
Cordis vulnera.  & fons arteriarum.  
Wounds in the heart are deadly, because it is the maker of vital spirits, and original of arteries.  
Corvulneratum esse indicia haec sunto; sanguis niger effluens, 
Signa cordis vulnerati.  extremorum frigiditas, sudores frigidi, syncope, colour pallidus ac totae vires debilitatae.  
The signs that the heart is wounded are these, black blood flowing out of the wound, coldness of the outward parts, cold sweats, sounding, pale colour, and the whole strength decayed.  
In intestinis magnis ob externas eorum carnositates vulnera 
Intestinorum vulnera.  sanabilia videntur: exiguis autem long periculosiora ac dolorum pleniora, propter substantiam eorum neruosam.  
Wounds in the great guts by reason of their outward fleshines are easy to be cured: but far more dangerous are wounds in the small guts, and more painful; because they are of sinewy substance.  
Vulnera renum, spasmum, alienationem animi, & mortem 
Renum vulnera.  inferunt.  
Wounds in the Kidneys bring the Cramp, perturbation of the mind and death.  
Vesicae vulnus adfert spasmum, urinae fluxum continuum 
Vulnera vesicae  mortemque.  
Wounds in the bladder bring the Cramp, continual flux of urine and deat●.  
Omne vulnus prope circiterue iuncturam ullam, musculi 
juncturarum vulnus actionem membri deprivat.  alicuius originem aut insertionem separet necesse est. Musculus est instrumentum motus voluntarij, ergo omne vulnus instrumenta motus voluntarij supprimens, actionem membri sequentis deprivare oportet.  
Every wound that is made near or about any joint doth of necessity separate either the rising or insertion of some muscle. A muscle is the instrument of voluntary moving: Therefore every wound that suppresseth the instruments of voluntary moving must needs deprive the action of the member following.  
juncturarum vulnera periculosa, quoniam neruis, tendonibus, 
juncturarum vulnera quare periculosa sunt.  & ligamentis vinciuntur, membranisque vestiuntur.  
Wounds in the joints be dangerous, because they be enwrapped with Sinews, Tendons, Ligaments and Pannicles.  
juncturarum vulnera sequuntur febres, spasmi, & membri depravatio.  
Upon wounds in the joints follow Fevers, Cramps and depravation of the member.  
Vulnera iuncturarum cum neruorum ac tendinum dissectione 
Vtrum neruus vel tendo dissectus sit cognolcere.  esse solent, quare si statim aeger totum manum aut maiotem partem manus, stupidam, gravem, frigidam senserit, neruum laesum esse verisimile est; quod si sine magna inflatione sit, & neque flectere neque extendere possit, tendo illius partis dissectus est.  
Wounds in the joints do chance with the cutting of the sinews and tendons: wherefore if the party feel his whole hand or a great part thereof to be without sense, heavy and cold, it is a true sign that the sinew is hurt: but if the hand be without any great swelling, and yet can neither be bowed, nor extended, then is the tendon of that part cut.  
Fibrarum transuersa divisio musculi officium impedit. 
Fibrarum vulnus.   
Overthwart cutting of the fibres impaireth the office of the muscle.  
Solutio continuitatis in neruo si est incisio aut punctura, 
Neruorum vulnera.  spasmum & alienationem, & mortem inducit, nisi diligenti●simè succurratur, & si omnino incidatur, non est periculum, nisi quia membrum suppositum caret motu aut sensu, aut utroque, secundum diversitatem neruorum.  
A wound in the sinew either by incision or pricking, bringeth a cramp, alienation of the mind and death, if it be not diligently helped; but if it be clean cut asunder, it is no danger at all, save only that the member is deprived of moving or feeling, or both, according to the diversities of sinews.  
Vulnus ad neruos recurrentes pertingens, rancedinem 
Ad neruos recurrdntes vulnus pertingens.  inducit.  
A wound in the recurrent nerves bringeth hoarseness.  
Vulnera secundum longitudinem neruorum, non tam 
Vulnus neruorum secundum longitudinem.  periculosa sunt, quàm si transuersim dividantur.  
Wounds that are made after the length of the sinews, are not so dangerous, as when they are cut overthwart.  
Laesio neruorum per contusionem, magis periculosa, quam 
Neruorum contusio.  per incisionem, quia non tam facile digestio inducitur.  
Hurt of sinews that cometh by contusion, is more dangerous then by meision, by reason that digestion can not be so soon brought to pass.  
Vulnera neruorum per desiccantia curantur. 
Curatio.   
Wounds in the sinews are cured by desiccative medicines.  
Vulnera neruorum per contusionem digerentibus curantur. 
Curatio.   
Wounds in the sinews made by contusion, are to be helped by dispersing medicines.  
Punctio neruorum, incisione periculosior. 
Punctio neruorum.   
Wounds in the sinews made by pricking weapons, are more dangerous than by incision.  
Vulnera neruorum si humores collectos expirare non valent, in periculo apostematum spasmique sunt.  
Wounds in the sinews that cannot breath out the humours collected, are in danger of impostumes and Cramps.  
Neruorum vulnus si in superiori part corporis inciderit, 
Neruorum in superiori part vulnus.  iuncturas colli, pectusque cum iuncturis adiacentibus unge.  
If the sinews in the upper parts be wounded, it is good to anoint the vertebres of the neck, and the breast, with the joints about the wounded part.  
Si autem in inferiori part evenit, lumborum vertebrae, 
In inferiori part neruorum vulnus.  os sacrum, inguen, iuncturae, partesque adiacentes inungantur.  
But if the wound of the sinews chance in the neither parts, anoint the vertebres of the loins, os sacrum, flanks, joints, and other parts adjacent.  
Euaporantia vulneribus neruorum magis conveniunt 
Medicamenta vulneribus neruorum convenientissima.  quam repercutientia.  
Euaporative medicines are more convenient for wounds in the sinews, than repercussives.  
Principio vulnerum neruorum nec conglutinantia, nec incarnantia expediunt, donec omni periculo vacant.  
Wounds in the sinews at the beginning require neither conglutinatives, nor incarnatives, until they be passed all danger.  
Si in punctione neruorum venerit apostematio nocent desiccantia, resoluentia tamen, & mollificantia, cum attractione familiari maximè conveniunt.  
If in pricking of sinews there happen impostumation, desiccative medicines are hurtful, but resolutives, and mollificatives, with familiar attraction, are most convenient.  
Mollificantia & maturantia in omni punctione neruorum periculosa sunt.  
Mollificative and maturative medicines are dangerous in all pricks of the sinews.  
Medicamina neruis vulneratis adhibita subtilia & liquida cum attractione familiari esse debent, non solum ut virtus eorum celeriter ad partem affectam adveniat, verum etiam ut materiam contentam sine dolore trahat.  
Medicines applied to wounded sinews, must be subtle and liquid with familiar attraction, not only that their virtue may more speedily come to the affected part, but also, that they may draw without pain the matter fixed in the grieved part.  
Medicamina neruis vulneratis actu calide applicentur.  
Medicines applied to wounded sinews, aught to be actually hot.  
Nerui tendinesque per vulnera nudati, celerrime carni amiciri debent, cum medicamentis temperaturae bonae potius calidis quam frigidis.  
Sinews and tendons lying bare by wounds, ought speedily to be covered with flesh, by medicines of good temperature, and rather hot then cold.  
Nerui iwenibus sunt sine periculo suendi, adultis non 
Nerui iwenum suendi sunt.  item.  
Young men's sinews may be stitched without danger, but in old persons not so.  
Si in osse sit vulnus tendinesque digitorum exteriores secantur, 
In osse vulnus.  digiti tamen postquam extendi possunt.  
If there be a wound in the bone, and the exterior tendons of the fingers be cut, yet the fingers may after wards be extended.  
Si os sit vulneratum interiori part digitorum ubi tendines dividantur, nunquam digiti postquam extendi queant.  
If the bone be wounded in the inside of the fingers where the tendons are divided, the fingers never after can be stretched forth.  
Parts omnes ex sanguine generatae restaurationem citò admittunt.  
Those parts that are engendered of blood, are soon restored.  
Flegmatici & melancholici carnes comedant & vinum 
Flegmatici & melancholici vulnerati.  bibant initio vulneris.  
Phlegmatic and melancholic persons may eat flesh, and drink wine in the beginning of a wound.  
Rusticis quàm delicatis vulnera citius curantur.  
Wounds in strong and rustical bodies, are sooner cured, than in tender bodies.  
Sagitta vel globulus venenatus per ingentem dolorem, 
Sagitta vel globulo venenato.  tumorem & nigredinem cognoscuntur.  
Arrows & bullets that are venomous are known by great pain, swelling, & blackness that follow in their wounds.   

De Vlceribus.  
Any ulcera concava, aetate confecta, aegrè vel nunquam 
Any ulcera.  curantur.  
Hollow ulcers in the fundament in an aged party, are hardly or never cured.  
Vlcera in corpore hydropico, leproso & rheumatico peraegrè 
In corpore hydropico ulcera.  vel nunquam curantur.  
Ulcers in a dropsy, leprous, and rheumatic body, are hardly or never cured.  
Cruribus antiquata ulcera cum simul contracta duritie 
In carnibus ulcera.  difficilis sunt curationis.  
Ulcers in the legs of continuance, with hardness about the affected part, are hard of curation.  
Capitis ulcera nunc di● nata aegrè curantur. 
Capitis ulcera.   
Ulcers in the head, of continuance, are hard to be cured.  
Capitis ulcera serpentia difficilè emendantur.  
Creeping ulcers in the head are hard to be cured.  
Vlcera in corpore humorum corruptela referto aegrè curantur. 
In corpore conupta ulcera.   
Ulcers in a body full of corrupt humours are hard of curation.  
Vlcera in corporibus teneris facile curantur. 
In corporibus teneris ulcera.   
Ulcers in young bodies are easy to be cured.  
Corporibus macilentis quàm in obesis ulcera facilius curantur. 
In corperibus macilentis ulcera.   
Ulcers in lean bodies be easier to be cured then in those that be fat.  
Materia caerulei vel lividi coloris difficultatem curationis 
Materia caerulei vel lividi coloris.  planè comminatur.  
Matter that is blue or swartish in colour, doth plainly declare difficulty of curation.  
Materia citrina lixivio absimilis, parit in vicinis partibus 
Materia citrina.  erosiones, & curationis difficultatem.  
Yellow matter like unto lée, bringeth erosions to the parts round about, and hardness of curation.  
Pus grossum & in fundo hoerens prius abstergendum antè 
Pus grossum.  aggrediatur cura.  
Gross matter cleaving to the bottom, ought first to be cleansed, before healing be gone in hand withal.  
Pus si sit album & crassum, bonum, si subcruentum & foetidum, 
Pus album & crassum subcruentum & foetidum.  malum.  
If the matter be white, it is good, but if it be bloody and stiucking, it is evil.  
Ossis scalprata carries, ulcus tunc, & non ante sanabitur. 
Ossis carries.   
The putrefaction of the bone being taken away, the ulcer will then be cured, but not before.  
Caro nigra in osse aegrotante, malum. 
Caro nigra.   
Black flesh when the bone is crazy, is evil.  
Corpore phlegmatico ulcera albescunt, sic sanies grossa, 
In corpore phlegmatico ulcera.  viscosa & subalbida.  
Ulcers in a phlegmatic body are white, and the Matter is gross, flymy and whitish.  
Corpus calidum & siccum, erit ulcus rubrum in circuitu 
Corporibus calidis & sic●●s ●l●era.  non absque dolore & inflamatione, preterquam quod color materiae ad citrinitatem, rubedinem, flavitatem vel viriditatem tender.  
Ulcers in a hot and dry body, will be red in the Circuit, not without pain and inflammation; and besides that, the colour of the Matter will be citrine, red, yellow, or green.  
Melancholici habent ulcera fusci coloris, corpus macerum 
Melancholicis ulcera.  & exiccatum, tum sanies nigrescens, densa, instar cineris & coeni mistionis.  
Melancholic persons have ulcers black in colour, a lean and dry body, and the Matter is thick waxing black, like unto the mixing of ashes and dirt.  
Membro in affecto sanguis non debitam habens proportionem, 
Sanguis debitam non habens proportionem.  curationem impedit, si maximè redundat, naturalem prorsus suffocabit calorem, & ad membrum solitos accessus nutrimenti prohibebit.  
In the affected member, if the blood have not his due proportion, it doth hinder the cure; if it do greatly abound, it will altogether suffocate natural heat, and prohibit the wont coming thereto of nourishment.  
Cavernosa inguinis ulcera aegrèvel nunquam curantur. 
Inguinis ulcera. juncturarum ulcera.   
Hollow ulcers in the flank are hardly or never cured.  
Vlcera in iuncturis perdurantia, nunquam sine ossis vel iuncturae iactura curantur.  
Ulcers in the joints of continuance are never cured without the jeopardy of some bone or joint.  
Omnis humorum acuitas ulcera pruritu affligit. 
Humorum acuitas.   
All sharpness of humours afflicteth ulcers with ●ching.  
Vlcera in collo vesicae si diutius permanserint aegerrimè 
In collo vesicae ulcus.  aut nunquam curantur.  
Ulcers in the neck of the bladder of long continuance, are hardly or never cured.  
Vlcera ad medullam usque putrescentia difficulter aut 
Ad medullam ulcera putrescentia.  nunquam curantur.  
Ulcers that putrefy to the marrow of the bone, are hardly or never cured.  
Vlcera in extrema part manuum ac pedum inveterata, 
Manuum aut pedum vl. era.  difficilis sunt curationis.  
Ulcers that be of any continuance either in the back of the hand, or top of the foot, are hard of curation.  
In naso ulcera rarò absque incommodo curantur. 
In ●aso 〈…〉   
Ulcers in the nose are seldom cured without a discommodity.  
In naribus ulcera, os vel cartilaginem penetrantia, aegrè 
In 〈…〉 ulcera  curantur.  
Ulcers in the nostrils piercing either the bone or gristle, are hard to be cured.  
Vlcera neruis vicinantia saepenumero spasmum inducunt. 
Neruis vi●●nantia.   
Ulcers that are near the sinews, do oftentimes bring the cramp.  
Sanies foetida mala est & signum corruptionis quae maturationi 
Sanies ●oetida  contraria est, indicatque aegrotum caliditatis naturalis esse destitutum.  
Stinking Matter is evil, and a sign of putrefaction, which is contrary to ripening, and showeth the patiented to be destitute of natural heat.  
Ex humorib, calidis cum aquositate & ebullitione fit virus. 
Virus.   
Virus is made of hot humours, with waterishness and boiling.  
Sordes vero ex superfluitate humorum frigidorum & 
Sordes.  grossitie eorum.  
Filthy matter is engendered by the superfluity and grossness of cold humours.  
Vlcera subitò exicantia & citra causam manifestam, malum, 
Vlcera subitō exiccantia.  atque nigrescentia mortem adferunt.  
Ulcers drying up suddenly without any manifest cause, signify evil, and if they wax black, it is a sign of death.  
Iniectiones fistulosis ulceribus convenientes mediocriter 
Fistulosis ulceribus iniectiones convenientes.  desiccare debent.  
Injections agreeing to fistulated ulcers, aught to dry meanly.  
Vlceribus sufficienter mundificatis, erit sanies pulchra & 
Vlcera sufficienter mundificata.  alba sine omni faetore.  
In ulcers sufficiently cleansed, there will be fair and white Matter, without stink.  
Qui habent ulcera concava, cibis magni nutrimenti vescantur, 
Vlcera concava.  ut bonum sanguinem generent.  
Let them that have hollow ulcers, eat meat of great nourtshment to engender good blood.  
Vertebrae si corrumpuntur, fuge curam. 
Vertebrarum corruptio.   
If the vertebres grow defiled, sh●m meddling with the cure.  
Vlcus varicosum tam cum vlceratione, quàm sine vlceratione 
Vlcus varicosum.  confirmatum, non sine periculo curatur.  
A various ulcer, whether with ulceration, or without ulceration, being once confirmed, can not be cured without danger.  
Cura paliativa in ulcere varicoso maxim prodest: nam 
Cura paliativa maximè prodest.  meatus innaturalis, quò diutius aliquid è corpore emanare consuevit, obturari non potest, sine timore.  
In a various ulcer, a paliative cure is most convenient: for an unnatural issue, whereby nature is wo●t long time to empty from the body, can not be stopped without danger.  
Curatio varicum non ulceratorum, per incisiovem non sine ingenti periculo efficitur, propter sluxum sanguinis inde promanantem.  
To cure swollen veins not ulcerated, by incision, is very dangerous, by reason of the flux of blood which will ensue.  
Varices optimè curantur per fontanellam cum rupturio 
Varicum curatio optima.  vel igne sub genu per quatuor digitos, in part exteriori, qua materia purgetur.  
The best way to cure swollen veins, is to make an issue either with an actual or potential camery, four fingers under the outside of the knee, whereby the matter may be purged out.   

Vtrum ulcus sit facilis vel difficilis curationis quatuordecini conditiones.  
PRima est sigura ulceris, nam ulcus rotundum difficulter 
1. Figura ulceris.  curatur, longum vero faciliter.  
The first is the figure of the ulcer, for a round ulcer is hard to be cured, but a long easy.  
Secunda est simplicitas vel compositio: nam simplex ulcus 
2. Simplicitas vel compositio.  faciliter curatur, compositum difficulter.  
The second is the simplicity or composition: for a simple ulcer is easy to be cured, but a compound, hard.  
Tertia est cum deperditione partis membri organici ulcus, 
3. Deperditione partis membri organici.  & tale difficulter curatur.  
The third is an ulcer with the loss of the part of the organic member, and such a one is hard to be cured.  
Quarta est ulcus cum duritie, & tale difficulter curatur. 
4. Vlcus cum du●itie.   
The fourth is an ulcer with hardness, and that is hard to be cured.  
Quinta est deperditio substantiae vel eius non deperditio, 
5. Deperditio substantiae.  nam ulcus cum deperditione substantiae cum difficultate curatur.  
The fift is an ulcer with loss of substance, or which out loss of substance, for an ulcer with loss of substance, is hard to be cured.  
Sexta quando ulcus est in membro exangui, tale enim 
6. Vlcus in membro exangui.  difficulter curatur: contrarium accidit si membrum non sit exangue.  
The sixth is when the ulcer is in a member without blood, and such a one is hard to be cured, but if the member be endued with blood, it is easy.  
Septima est nobilitas membri aut eius ignobilitas: nam 
7. Membri nobilitas aut ignobilitas.  fi ulcus in aliquo membro nobili sit, eius curatio est difficilis aut impossibilis, secus autem accidit in membro ignobili.  
The seventh is the nobility or ignobility of the member, for if the ulcer be in any noble member, it is hard or unpossible to be cured, but if it be in a base member it is easy to be cured.  
Octava est si ulcus fuerit in membro subtili ut in panniculis, 
8. In membro subtili vel grosso.  vesica, etc. tale enim difficulter curatur, si vero fuerit in membro grosso faciliter, si in mediocri, mediocriter.  
The eight is if the ulcer be in a subtle member, as the pannicles, bladder, etc. and such a one is hard to be cured, but if it be in a gross member it is easy, if in a mean member, meanly.  
Nona est motus membri & ipsius quies, nam motus 
9 Membri motus & quies.  membri ulcerati impossibilitatem & difficultatem facit, ut patet in pulmone, arterijs, & diaphragmate, quies vero facilitatem facit curationis.  
The ninth is the moving and rest of the member, for the moving of the member maketh the cure hard and unpossible, as it happeneth in the lungs, arteries, and midriff, but rest maketh the cure easy.  
Decima est incessus superfluitatum super membrum ulceratum, 
10. Incessus superfluitatum super membrum ulceratum.  nam earum incessus difficultatem operatur, ut patet in ventrieulo, intestinis, vesica, matrice, virga, etc.  
The tenth is the course of superfluities upon the ulcerated member, which causeth hardness of curation, as it chanceth in the ventricle, entrails, bladder, matrice, yard, & such like.  
Vndecima est quando corpus est repletum multis superfluitatibus, 
11. Corpus multis superfluitatibus repletum.  ut sunt corpora cachochimica, in talibus enim ulcera sunt difficilis curationis, contrarium accidit corporibus mundis.  
The xi. is when the body is replenished with many superfluities, as the bodies full of evil juice; for ulcers in such bodies are hard of curation, but in clean bodies contrary.  
Duodecima est quando non possunt debitae ulceribus 
12.  medicinae appropriari.  
The twelfth is when as due medicines can not be applied to the ulcers.  
Decimatertia est situs membri in alta vel infima part 
13. Situs membri.  corporis, nam ulcera in membris superioribus faciliter curantur, quae vero sunt in inferioribus difficulter.  
The xiii. is the situation of the member in a high or low part of the body, for ulcers in the superior members are easy to be cured, but in the inferior hard.  
Decimaquarta est profundita 〈…〉 ceris, nam ulcus profundum 
14. Vlceris profunditas.  cum difficultate curatur, non profundum verò faciliter.  
The xiiii. is the depth of the ulcer, for a deep ulcer is hard to be cured, but that that is not deep, is easy to be cured.  
Vlcera virulentia ab humore bi●ioso ●as●untur, & ad acuitatem per pituitam salsam perveniunt, quibus inui●em permixtis accidit adustio, & tun● virulentia.  
Viculent ulcers proceed of a choleric humour, and come to sharpness by reason of salt phlegm, which mixing with the choler, causeth adustion, and then virulency.  
Sorditiei duae sunt causae, propria & dependens, causa propria est quaedam in carne malignitas & vocatur proprietas occulta, causa dependens est humorum improborum essentia, carnem depascens & erodens cum ad coniunctam advenit ut per bilem cum flegmate salso permixtam.  
There be two causes of filthy Matter, as a proper, and a depending, the proper, is a certain malignity in the flesh, which is called a hidden property: the cause depending, is evil humours, which eat or corrode the flesh when they come to the conjunct, as by choler mixed with saite phlegm.  
Varicum causae sunt, lienis opilatio, hepatis imbecilitas, ciborum melancholicorum nimius usus, longa statio, & onerum aggravatio.  
The causes of varices are, stopping of the spleen, weakness of the liver, much use of melancholy meats, long standing, and bearing of great burdens.  
Vlcus cacoethes nisi valido remedio non cedit.  
That kind of ulcer called cacoethes, yieldeth not but to a strong and most forcible medicine.    
FINIS.   

¶ The Table.  

A  
ALopecia ex morbo Gallico. 130  
Anodinum cataplasma. 15  
Aphorisms. 133  
Apozema Arcai. 10  
Aqua Fallopii. 14  
Aqua pro oculis. 64  
Aqua Cicatrizans pro oculis. 81  
Aqua pro pustulis faciei 123  
Aqua ad serpiginem & impetiginem faciei. 124  
Aqua ad ulcera cicatrizanda. 130  
Apostumes and their beginnings. 133  
Arcaus Balm for wounds. ibid.   

B  
Balm for wounds. 46  
Balm devised by Ambr. Parrey. 50  
Balm of Andernacus ibid.  
Balms distilled. 51  
Balm devised by M. Keble. 52  
Balm of Arcaus. 79  
Blood and the judgement thereof. 172  
Bolognini restrictiwm. 17  
Bronchocele. 142  
Burning with Gunpowder. 2. 59 62   

C  
Cancer in the breast and other parts. 142  
Cataplasm to cease pain. 6  
Cataplasma Anodinum. 15  
Cataplasma Fallopii. 22  
Cataplasm for inflammations. 55  
Cataplasms for bruises and ceasing of pain. 56  
Cataplasm for a Gangraena. 59  
Cataplasm for windy tumours. 70  
Cataplasm to suppurate impostumes. 82  
Cataplasm to cease pain. 129  
Cataplasm for a schi●●hous tumour. ibid.  
Causes of Morbus Gallicus 100  
Cautions to be observed to escape Morbus Gallicus. 111  
Cerotum resolutiwm. 7●  
Cerotum mundificatiuum. 74  
Cerote for Morbus Gallicus. 126  
Cerote for pain in the joints. 127  
Cicatrizing water for Ulcers. 81  
Choler in Morbo Gallico. 119  
Clyster to draw back pain of the head. 129  
Corrosive powder. 8  
Corrosive powder strong. 14  
Collirium for ulcers in the yard. 130  
Cure of two Gentlemen grievously burnt with Gunpowder. 1  
Cure of a Merchant of London wounded with gun-shot. 5  
Cure of Andrew Fones hurt with gun-shot. 8  
Cure of a Soldier that was wounded with gun-shot, which turned to a Fistula. 12  
Cure of Henry Rhodes of divers wounds, made by the breaking of a piece. 17  
Cure of Henry Battey hurt by the breaking of a Dag. 20  
Cure of a Soldier shot into the leg which turned to a Gangrena. 21  
Cure of one that cut his own throat. 49  
Cure of Morbus Gallious. 103   

D  
defensives. 7. 9 17. 26. 49. 22  
Defensatiwm Emplustrum. 41  
Declaration of the tree of signs. 117  
Decoction of Gu●icum. 124  
Digestiu▪ to preserve a wounded part. 9  
Digestives. 19 30  
Digestive used contused wounds. 35  
Digestive to remove escares. 78  
Dislocations. 144  
Doubts discussed concerning Morbus Gallicus. 112   

E  
Electuary to confirm the cure, and prevent the coming again of Morbus Gallicus. 123  
Electuary purging for Morbus Gallicus. 128  
Emplastrum nigrum. 24  
Emplastrum de Peto. 30  
Emplastrum defensatiwm. 41  
Emplastrum Paracelsi. 52  
Emplastrum Stipticum. 53  
Emplastrum resoluendum. 54  
Emplastrum consoliditiwm. ibid.  
Emplast. to be used for a dry stitch 55  
Emplast. to keep open issues. ibid.  
Emplast. Epispatices. 60  
Emplast. meliloti. 73  
Emplast. Aromatizatum Keb●●. 72  
Emplast. mucilaginum album. ibid.  
Emplast. for inveterate ulcers. 74  
Emplast. to resolve nodes. 75  
Emplast. for hard swellings in women's breasts. 76  
Emplast. Arcaei for wounds in the head. 79  
Emplast Betony for the same. ibid.  
Emplast. Vigonis ad Idem. 80  
E●●●pelas. 218   

F  
Fistulaes'. 149  
Flos v●g●entorum. 69  
Fomentation for the ripening of a Bubo. 128  
Fractures in general. 150  
Fume for drying of Ulcers. 128   

G  
Gangraena. 154  
Gargarism. 18  
Gargarism for ulcers in the mouth. 125   

H  
Hemorrhagia. 155  
hemorrhoids. 156  
Hernia. 157   

I  
Iniectio mundificativa. 11  
Iniection of Tagaltius. 15  
Iniection for hollow ulcers. 59  
Iniection to dry up ulcers. 139   

L  
Lineament for windy tumours. 71  
Lineament to cease pain. 74  
Lineament for wounds in the head. 80  
Lixivium Ambrose Parey. 21  
Lixivium for a Gangraena. 60  
Lixivium to take away warts. 71  
Londrad●es oil for gun-shot. 35  
Lues Venerea. 159   

M  
Maturative plaster. 60  
Measles and the judgements thereof. 179  
Medicine for the pin and web in the eyes. 72  
Medicines, and how to Minister them. 167  
Mucilage plaster white. 73  
Mundisicatives. 7. 55  
Mundificatiuum optimum Vigonis. 24  
Mundificatiuum unguentum. 30  
Mundificatiuum Francisci Rasis. 38.  
Mundificative for hollow and plain ulcers. 66  
Mundificatiuum lipsium. 70   

O  
Observations for wounds in the belly. 39  
Observations for purging wounded persons. 85  
Observations to be notified in the opening of Apostumes. 139  
Oedema and the determination. 169  
Oleum Catellorum. 36  
Oleum Londrad●. 35  
Omentum wounded, and the cure thereof. 42  
Opthalmia, the times and the precedings. 170  
Order of taking of a mortified member. 25  
Oil most excellent for all inflammations to cause sleep, and cease pain in the Gout. 75  
Oil for convulsions proceeding of wounds in the nerves. 76  
Oil necessary for convulsions. 77  
Ointment for pustules in the face ex Morbo Gallico. 124   

P  
Phlebotomy and the use thereof. 176  
Pills to purge in Morbo Gallico. 129  
Powder to take away proud flesh. 68  
Potion purging for Morbo Gallico. 126  
Powder to take away warts about Praeputium. 71  
Praecipitate white. 123  
pulvis corosiws fortis. 14  
pulvis restrictive. 27  
pulvis sine Pari. 69  
Pus and the judgement. 193   

R  
Rasuis plaster to be keep open issues. 55  
Remedies good for burning with powder. 4  
Resolutive cerote. 73  
Restrictive powder. 57 27   

S  
Signs of choler in Morbo Galiico. 119  
Signs of phlegm and melancholy in the same. 120  
Sinews stitched. 191  
Sparadrap plaster. 6●  
Sparadrap mollificatiwm. ibid.  
Spiced plaster: M. Keble. 72   

T  
Tinea or scales in the head. 175  
Turbith Minerale. 122  
Tumours & the difference according to the humour. 176   

V  
Ulcers and their judgements. 192  
Ulcers varicous. 196  
Ulcers filthy. 200  
Unguent for burning with powder. 3. 4. 59 62  
Unguent de Peto. 12  
unguentum mundisicatiwm. ibid. 81  
Unguent. de minio. 20  
Unguent. Aegyptiacum. 21  
Unguent. Tetraphamacon. 23  
Unguent. Ceraseos parvum. 24  
Unguent. mundificatiuum. 30  
Unguent. Desiccatiuum. 32  
Unguent. to be used with tent or flamula. 34  
Unguent. consolidatiuum. 49  
Unguent. incarnatiuum. 61  
Unguent. for inflammations. 62  
Unguent. Neruorum. 63  
Unguent Apii. 65  
Unguent. Populeon. 66  
Vng. mundisicatiwm magistrale. 67  
Unguent mollificatiwm. ibid.  
Unguent. Sanatiwm. 68  
Unguent. infrigidans Galeni. 70  
Unguent. Resinae. ibid.  
Unguent. for the cramp. 77  
Unguent. for the Hemrhoyds. 73  
Unguent. Nutritum. 78  
Unguent. incarnatiuum regis Angliae. 81  
Unguent. Viride. 82  
Unguent. pro Morbo Gallico. 125. 127  
Unguent. to open a Bubo. 128  
Unguent. for Scab and itch. 130   

W  
Wounds and the judgements thereof, in particular members. 182  
Wounds in the joints. 188  
Wounds in the Sinews. 189   
FINIS.