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A19026	A prooued practise for all young chirurgians, concerning burnings with gunpowder, and woundes made with gunshot, sword, halbard, pyke, launce, or such other Wherein, is deliuered with all faithfulnesse, not onely the true receipts of such medicines as shall make them bolde, but also sundry familiar examples, such, as may leade them as it were by the hand, to the doyng of the lyke. Heereto is adioyned a treatise of the French or Spanish pockes, written by Iohn Almenar, a Spanish physition. Also, a commodious collection of aphorismes both English and Latin, taken out of an old written coppy. Published for the benefyte of his countrey, by Wylliam Clowes, mayster in chirurgery. Seene, and allowed, according to the order appoynted.; Prooved practise for all young chirurgians, concerning burnings with gunpowder	Clowes, William, ca. 1540-1604.; Almenar, Juan de. De morbo Gallico. English. aut	1588 (1588)	STC 5444; ESTC S108101	163,640	298

The simplicity of the old Woman was somewhat considered of by the whole bench then the Iudges and the Iustices graunted her this fauour that if she would truely declare vnto them What manner of Charme it was she vsed she should be deliuered and beeyng in great feare and doubt of her life forthwith in the presence of them all declared it to be as followeth First sayd she after I had receyued the penny in money and the loafe of bread then my Charme was this The Charme 1. My Lofe in my lappe 2. My Penny in my pursse 3. Thou art neuer the better 4. Nor I am neuer the wurse Immediatly after the Iudges with the rest perceiued it to be meere deceit cousenage then they did straightly charge her vpon payne of great punishment to leaue off her delusions and cosening of the people so she was discharged as it is there said I could speake of many other abusers of Physick and Surgerie but what redresse would be had I knowe not and yet I do not meane to speake of the old Woman at Newington beyond Saint Georges feelds vnto whome the people do resort as vnto an Oracle neyther will I speake of the Woman on the Bancke side who is as cunning as the Horsse at the Crosse keyes nor yet of the cunning Woman in Seacole Lane who hath more skill in her Colebasket then iudgement in Vrine or knowledge in Phisick or Surgery But I could discouer many others which practise Physick and Chirurgery with the bit in their mouthes and the raynes in their necks which do not only thereby deceiue the simple people but oftentimes the wisest men and these are as hurtfull as mothes in cloaths or cancker rust in Iron There are many other abusers about this City of London lurcking in corners and sometimes they do raunge and wander astray from towne to towne from countrey to countrey both farre and neere by sea and land and these I suppose to be the very spawne and frye of that Rogish route which practised Chirurgery at Muttrell in the time of that famous Prince King Henry the eyght which fraternitie and brotherhood of abusers of the Arte good Maister Gale hath discouered in his Booke of the office of a Chirurgion who sayth that they were all banished the Campe and if they had not auoyded with speede they had been all hanged as theeues and murtherers And what shall be sayd to some which not long since haue beene commanded to prepare themselues and with all speede to serue her Maiesty in the Warres then presently with many solemne circumstances did desire to be excused protesting that they had no knowledge in Surgery but onely for the drawing and stopping of a tooth letting of bloud or for the cure of the french Rocks and thus they did playnely 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 knowne let the seruice be once furnished with sufficient Surgeons which oftentimes is very hard to do then they begin to shake their chaines and keepe a stirre that they can cure that which all the best Chirurgions in London or elsewhere do forsake but what manner of curing they vse I may not speake that I knowe I could rehearse diuers of this stye but they would say my Booke were seditious but this may suffice for a caueat Therefore these to say the troth may fitly be compared vnto a certaine boasting bragger dwelling beyond the Seas which did attempt to the great admiration of the standers by to deck on with a ciment for the nonce a mans eare that was cleane cut off from his head yet his glory was but short for within two dayes the ●arerotted and fell off againe and he became a poynting stock to the whole Towne and Countrey I would no man should heere misconstrue me or to thinke I vrge any thing in this my whole discourse against any good or honest artist for my meaning is not against any such who haue beene and are in the Arte right diligent and studious for the good of our countrey common wealth but against such as Vesalius Tagaltius Vigo Arceus Maister Gale Maister Hall Maister Bannester and such as these good men do disalow who haue in all their whole discourses and writings neuer sought for vaine glory promotion or reward but only by their vertues and laudable studies to make knowne the vndiscret and vaineglorious brags friuolous vantings peeuish practises and wicked dealings of a sort of abusers of the arte 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 caterpillers which suck the sap and eate the bread out of the mouthes of many a good Surgeon who haue been very much decaied by reason of such ill persons to the great impouerishment not only of themselues but likewise of their poore Wiues and children Which men are well known if ability were answerable to their willingnes and skill to doo her Maiesty very good seruice in the Arte wherein they haue beene trayned and spent themselues a long time in trauell and studie for the attayning of the same Now time calleth me to an end of this Epistle to the Reader and of a part of the generall discourses of abuses and abusers of the Arte and all good artists and I will conclude with the last and the very worst of all sorts and they are those that with open mouth stand vpon their tiptoe saying with many puissant and forcible reasons Away with all these bookes and bookemen for they haue made our Arte too common I perceiue it was not without great cause that Plinie complayned and sayd Lyke as there is no light without a shadow no more is vertue without enuy but by Gods good grace I will returne their speeches vpon their owne heads Chilo the learned Philosopher sayd That in Bookes you shall finde written the veritie and truth of things secret and vnknowne the which time can neuer consume nor fortune destroy happy is that man which escapeth such Ciclops dens without danger of the fluxe of their foule mouth but I say vnto them whatsoeuer they be that onely their naked experience which they so brag of without learning in the Arte may sitly be compared to a tree without fruite The first beginners of their sect of bussardly Empricks I reade was Philinus Cous. Acro Agrigentinus and Alexandreus with others And farther it is sayd that their experience is nothing worth that is not grounded vpon reason the mother of all Artes and Sciences and reason and knowledge is gotten and made ripe by reading and weighing the well obserued practises and meditated rules of the generations of learned men and diligent artists in time gone before vs heereunto I say ioyning our owne practise we get vs the m●re prompt and excellent vnderstanding 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 arte good experience nor honestie and so I conclude that the reading of good Authors is the schoole of wise men for learning and knowledge is the most rare gift of God which maketh men become famous vpon earth for example as approoued Historyes do report Plato and Socrates were well knowne to be two famous Philosophers though they were the sonnes of two poore Citizens of Athens for their well occupied minds in learning and knowledge aduanced them to great honor as it may appeare by their great renowme large volumes and infinite labours remayning still vnto posterities and therefore it is as possible for an Owle to encounter with an Eagle or a Wren with a Faucon as for such boysterous blockheads with their wodden practises grounded onely vpon experience the schoolemistresse to fooles who with vnequall comparisons do challenge men of reason and knowledge in the Arte with their beaderowles of infamy folaryes fables and old wiues tales long bred and nousled vp in the storehouse of abuses but it is a most true saying and it is in these dayes come to passe that euery peeuish Pan will compare with learned Apollo but with spite and hatred in their harts euery Momus will assayle Minerua with rayling priuely behinde mens backs and euery Zoylus will barke at Cicero with open iniurie in their deedes But Ye may not feare such enemyes To Arte and Authors good Who though they fawne in flattery Yet thurst they for your bloud For these haue watcht full priuely Such is their vile desire Care yee not for their courtesey Ne force yee of their yre This warning for a caueat To mee it shall suffice Except to those that will not see A word may serue the wise But our good God which hath euer defended vs from the rauening iawes of such dangerous foes or smiling serpents which with stealing steps do sowe the seeds of sedition with the hands of Briarious will returne all the euils which they do worke vpon their owne heads Thus good Reader I will through Gods assistance proceede to the accomplishing of this small Treatise notwithstanding their great threatnings to kill with Dagger Sword or Battle axe but I little esteeme of such sith these my labours seemed in the opinions of men both godly wise and learned not to be vnprofitable or vnworthy to come abroade for the benefit of all yong Students in the Art whose Readings and practises I wish most willingly that God may prosper Amen Willyam Clowes COurteous Reader I suppose it almost vnpossible at the first impression of any Booke but some faultes will passe be it neuer so carefully looked vnto yet none heere I hope so egregious but that I know euery honest mind will frendly weigh the cause consider the troubles that is had in such works But as for the malitious quarrell pickers whose poysoned natures is to turne nothing to good these I say will not onely mislike and repine but with their scorning lookes rather watch to finde faultes than with honest minds to amend those which vnwillingly haue beene committed therefore I haue gathered this small Errate and if in the course of your readings it will please you with your pennes first to couer correct the faults escaped as it is heere declared also very easy to find both the chapter leafe and line then I shall thinke my self most happy so wish you such profit by these my labors as your own harts doo desire as the matter is able to affoord as knoweth God who direct you in all these your studyes and labours Amen Faultes escaped PAge 1. Line 9. for proclayming reade proclayme Pag. 3. line 4. reade foliorum maluarum lin 22. albumina cuorum pag. 4. lin 30. ●lei papaueris lin 31. vnguenti pag. 5 lin 15 in the margent reade Quercetanus pag 6 lin 26 foliorum maluarum lin 32. 32. vnguenti 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 margent reade Cataplasma anodinum pag. 16. lin 6. oculis populneis lin 26. Aquae hordei lin 28. sarcocollae pag. 17. in the margent reade Angeli Bolognini Restrictiuum 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. cauterie 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. vnguenti pag. 50 lin 4. albumen vnius oui lin 14 cum gummi pag. 51 li. 5. reade distillentur ac separato oleo adiungantur c. lin 12. galangae li 15. nucis moscatae li. 16. cubebarum li. 18. ligni pag 54. li. 14. Empl. Resolutiuum pag. 55. lin 27. aceti pag 56. li. 6. reade vitellos ouorum tres li. 29. 30. vnguenti 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. reade de Ianua To his very good freend Mayster Clowes Chirurgion all health c. IN writing of Bookes for the benefit of the studious as I consider of sundry commendable courses taken by the Authors in that behalfe so yet is there none in my iudgement more apte either to amplify the Authors name or else to increase the Readers knowledge then that which is done by way of familiar examples and obseruations for such are properly beawtifyed with these three amiable ornaments Varietie Perspicuitie and Certainty whereof in seuerall the fyrst delighteth the second informeth and the third assureth but ioyntly all concurre to the readie ripening and speedie preparing of the Artist to answere the expectation of his calling When 〈◊〉 therefore the principall of your labour Maister Clowes hath in this Booke beene to deliuer faithfully your experiments in the curation of woundes with such playne instances of the medicines vsed in particular cases and historicall obseruations of their seuerall successes ioyned with the noting of occurrences and preuention of accidents as may in deede according to your speach leade the young artist by the hand to do the like I do not onely for mine owne part finde my selfe bound to encourage and commend you but dare also assure you in behalfe of the bette● sort of all thankefulnesse Hippocrates hauing led that trace in his Epid●micis hath therein no small estimation with the learned

A prooued practise for all young Chirurgians concerning burnings with Gunpowder and woundes made with Gunshot Sword Halbard Pyke Launce or such other Wherein is deliuered with all faithfulnesse not onely the true receipts of such Medicines as shall make them bolde but also sundry familiar examples such as may leade them as it were by the hand to the doyng of the lyke Heereto is adioyned a Treatise of the French or Spanish Pockes Written by Iohn Almenar a Spanish Physition Also a commodious collection of Aphorismes both English and Latin taken out of an old written coppy Published for the benefyte of his Countrey by Wylliam Clowes Mayster in Chirurgery ❧ ❧ ❧ Seene and allowed according to the order appoynted ¶ Printed by Thomas Orwyn for Thomas Cadman 1588. To all true professors of Chirurgery in generall wheresoeuer Wylliam Clowes wisheth all happinesse with much increase of knowledge and after this life the most ioyfull and blessed life euerlasting Amen I Haue followed the examples of many excellent learned men which in times past did vsually dedicate theyr paynefull labours and trauels according to the worthines thereof some to Kings some to Queenes Princes Nobles and other great personages partly as testimonies of their owne vowed affection and duty toward such worthyes and partly as petitioners for protection to their labours vnder 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 scornefully prying into other mens doings to blemish and deface the same as much as in their power consisted In which respect it was most truely sayd of a learned man that he may be called a very good Cooke that is able to make one sawce to serue euery mans taste Or that man may be called a most perfect and rare man whose works being published to the viewe of all men can please euery mans humor especially in these dayes wherin are so many daynty cares and so many queasy stomacks with no want of rayling toongs which Horatius Morus in his Epistle to Ierome Comfort Doctor of Physicke declareth saying Is there any thing so sounde or so passing well handled which can escape the venemous tongues of such as would sting Homer himselfe if he were liuing at this day Wherfore my louing brethren and freends I meane none but you that are the true professors of Chirurgery vnto you do I most willingly offer these my simple labours and trauels as heeretofore I haue done hoping also you will as willingly receiue it into your good Patronage and to defend it with your friendly supportation and that is all I craue and that you will accept of it as did King Artaxerxes the cup of cold water at the hands of poore silly Sinaetes Then as for the intemperate eares of the malitious 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 then had Prometheus of Thessalia who receiued by the Sword of his mortall enemy a great wound in his brest 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 greeuously trouble him so the hand that meant to hurt did heale and the wicked determination of an ill digested minde yet contrary to his expectation had a good and happy ende no more hurt I hope nor no lesse good shall my enemies toongs neither hands procure vnto me And now my friends and Brethren to whome I so willingly dedicate these my labours vnderstand you that my present purpose through Gods assistance is to deliuer for the benefit of all young practizers of Chirurgery certayne obseruations and notes of some speciall cures by my selfe accomplished with diuers needfull and necessary remedyes prooued most profitable not onely for burning with Gunpowder but also for woundes made with Gunshot Sword Daggar Harbard Pike or Launce all which I haue gathered out of diuers learned Authors and by my selfe augmented with an addition also of a most excellent learned Worke written by Iohn Almaner a Spanish Physition that doth intreate of the French Disease Which Treatise was deliuered me by a good freend and a well willer vnto all the young practizers of Chirurgery for whose sakes he Translated the same out of Latine into English and required me to publish it foorthwith the which courteous Reader I haue most faythfully set downe and adioyned it vnto these mine obseruations with certayne Aphorismes both in English and Latine very profitable for all young Students which are desirous of learning and knowledge In which discourses if I haue slipped or ouershot my selfe in my penning I craue pardon for I knowe I shall make a rude perfourmance of a good meaning the which I commit in the end to thy consideration and my selfe to thy courtesy Vale in Christo Wylliam Clowes Good men are not forbidden to hope for Honor for theyr vertue sith both are the blessings of GOD. But some whose mindes a World will not suffice As Caesars raigne and others doe despise And such I say oft speake vs faire in face Yet worke the spite mens credits to disgrace Which done full fine as foes they will you skorne With open wrongs which are not to be borne But I conclude let such say more or lesse Nothing shall stand but what Gods hand doth blesse The Epistle to the Reader SInce I finished my last Booke intituled De morbo gallico the which I presented vnto all the true professors of Chirurgerie in Anno 1585. It was giuen me to vnderstand that a new Impression of my Booke was presently to passe then I wayed with my selfe it would be very hard for me to accomplish all things that mine intent did leade me vnto for the correcting and enlarging of the same Booke in so short a time wherein I knowe are diuers faults escaped but I promised heereafter if God did permit me life and health I would to my power supply all wants So I willed the Printer to proceede according to my former collection for that I did suppose the matter sufficient and the wants tollerable if it were rightly censured by men of learning and skill in the Arte. But as for the scornefull scanners their commendations I disdayne for I knowe they are frosen in the dregs of their owne corrupt iudgements and therefore whilest they should speake well of me I might be thought like vnto them but if it shall please any good man that is I say learned in the Arte who doth espye the wants and imperfections of my Booke that he will vouchsafe to publish an other worke of his owne collection or translation intreating of the same matter then truely I will my selfe not onely yeeld him his due commendations but also be thankefull to God that it hath pleased him to make my simple Booke the cause of the publishing of any learned worke

then ye shall say they beholde certayne Spirits that inhabit or dwell in the ayre called Nenusareni and Aerdadi a high matter in a lowe house which sore troubleth the wits of these wandering Pilgrimes which contrarie to the direct line of equitie wrong ballans the meaning of good Authors and so thinke thereby to patch and cloute vp theyr owne silly credits by pulling downe and defacing of others and thus would they roote vp that which they neuer planted Therefore I may rightly compare this image of enuy and such lyke vnto the malitious man which desired of Iupiter he might lose one of his eyes so that another whome he hated might lose both his c. but I will now blot paper or spend time no longer to aunswere any such for it is no conquest to beate an Asse to death Also I meane to vnfolde the strange euents that succeeded after the taking of a certayne pernitious pill which pill as it is sayd was sprinckled abroade by an odde birde of the same neast afore rehearsed This Pill of his was shadowed vnder the vale or title of Turbith mineralis and it is no such thing Moreouer it was sayd to be a Paracelsion Pill but I am not of that opinion for I suppose no good or godly Paracelsion would haue giuen it to a dog The composition of the same vile Pill Mayster Reade hath discouered in his Booke of Arceus lately Translated and by him published as a caueat for all good people to beware of that Pill And in my simple iudgement no good man ought to countenance allowe excuse smother or conceale so perillous a medicine sith it hath left behinde it so foule and filthy broade scarres that touched the liues of foure persons fyrst Iohn Butler Mayster of a Shippe a Barbar surgeons seruant of London a Ropemakers boy in Rowsey and one Master Washborne a Marchant that dyed also in Rowsey This cruell Pill was ministred vnto these foure persons by two simple fellowes who were Surgeons of two Ships which sayde they were deluded by this crow brightfast companion which did write it downe its their booke of secrets with his owne hand for a pretious iewell and there recorded it to be good for all diseases a bad pollicie and verie ill deuised but how needfull it is for all good men to beware of this Pill let euery man iudge which hath care of his owne health yet I do not malice the person of the man but his filthy Pill although to see to he is more fitter to be made a turnebroche or a Scullien of a Kitchen then to be admitted to be eyther Physition or Surgeon but it is sayde of a learned man if such kinde of knaues might be well punished for example sake by the handes of the Magistrate for such offences so should the young Students in the Arte be lesse deceyued I do not heere 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 eternized in thy minde and although I knowe he dangereth his owne welfare that reproueth euill mens faults and shall lye open to slaunder and reproch yet I suppose it better to be maligned of such then to conceale so great a mischiefe that might otherwise ensue by the farther spreading of so vile a medicin and therefore I must crane pardon for I do meane heereafter in this whole discourse not to shun any such rotten rootes as they come or chaunce to lye in my way Heere I am I say farther prest and vrged to vnmaske another of the same neast of young Snakes or rather old suttle Serpents who I trust in God partly by me and also heereafter by the helpe of others more learned they shall be all ferited which way soeuer they goe from their wicked buries mosses and starting holes and farther I would haue followed their abuses at this time and also the abuses of others vnspoken of but that I haue beene preuented by some speciall causes troubles and lets but if heereafter they do not amend I will discouer them to their shame and their names And therefore curteous and friendly Reader note my sayings which I will openly publish and iudge with discretion It is not long since that a subtile deluder verie craftely hauing vpon set purpose his brokers or espials abroade vsing sundry secret drifts to allure many as did the Syrens by their sweet Sonets and melody seduce Mariners to make them their pray so did his brokers or espials deceiue many in proclayming and sounding out his same abroade from house to house as those vse to do which crye Mistresse haue you any worke for the Tincker at the length they heard of one that was tormented with a quartaine then in all post haste this bad man was brought vnto the sick patient by their craftie meanes and so forth without any tariance he did compound for fifteene pound to rid him within three fits of his Agew and to make him as whole as a sish of all diseases So alittle afore his fit was at hand he called vnto the Wife of the patient to bring him an apple of the biggest size and then with a pinne writte in the rinde of the apple Abracadabra and such like and perswaded him to take it presently in the beginning of his sit for there was sayth he a secret in these words To be short the patient being hungry of his health followed his counsell and deuoured all and euery peece of the apple So soone as it was receyued nature left the disease to digest the apple which was too hard to do for at length he fill to vomiting then the core kept such a sturre in his throate that where to fore his Feuer was ill now much worse a malo ad peius out of the fryingpan into the fire presently there were Physitions sent for vnto the sick patient or else his fifteene pound had beene gone with a more pretious Iewell but this lewde fellow is better knowne at Newgate then I will heere declare Such counterfeite Charmers with Figures and Caracters Tagaltius doth condemne as absurd and erronious which wicked practises he sayth becommeth no honest artist to vse or to exercise It is also sayd that in Archadia a Woman began to cure with wicked Charmes without the applying of any medicines which beeing knowne in Athens she was condemned by the Senate to be stoned to death a iust reward for such vngodly practises I reade likewise of another lewde Woman which was accused of Witchcraft the cause was for that she did commonly take vpon her to cure Men Women Children and Beasts by a certayne Charme the which they say she would do onely for a penny in money and a loafe of bread This thing was misliked of many good men in the Countrey where she did dwell and for that cause she was vpon suspition of Sorcery and Witchcraft brought to the Assises and there Arrayned for it

suffer such brasenfaced beastes to liue among them who if they be long tollerated 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 skilfull so their works to the disgracing of the Arte. wheresoeuer they goe they leaue such a stincke behynde them that all men that hath had to deale with them cry fye vpon them To prooue this to be true without a sillogisme looke vppon the aftercures that are among you It is some mens worke to rectifie other mens errours Heere I might speake to the worshipful company of Surgeons in London amōg whom I know many haue good knowlege and also great reason ioyned alwayes with their practise Cicero contra Catalinam spake to Senators Hoc quis ferre possit inertes homines doctissimis viris insidiari st ultissimos prudentissimis ebriosos sobrijs dormientes vigilantibus and therefore if either arte or artistes be respected in this case Non est lenitati locus seueritatem res ipsa postulat such matters are not to be iested withall the Stocks were a fit place for such persons to publish theyr skyll Hos igitur a vestris aris aulis a tectis vrbis a moenibus a vita fortunisque ciuium arcebitis tanquam hostes patriae latrones Angliae rectâ pergant in exilium Who could tollerate eyther Molem inuidiae procacitatem linguae or Spolium populi but euery man hath spoken so much and so little preuayled that I am out of hart to speake any more But yet I must needes teare off one ragge more from their torne coate before we part These caterpillers or peoplepollers being thus paynted out in their seuerall colours with theyr proper badge to knowe them by well perceyuing that among so many torches theyr pictures must needs be perceyued seeke to couer themselues vnder other mens hoodes get other to compose and they to subscribe and then the worke is theirs and so they become of blinde bussards that can scarce write and reade great learned men If Tully were aliue he would crye out O honorem contumeliosum such men in deed do rather aucupari gloriam though ignominiosam then publicae vtilitati inseruire I vnderstand that Aesops Asse is alyue agayne and would couer himselfe with a Lyons skinne but if he do appeare we shall perceyue his long eares well ynough then were he best to keepe him selfe within his owne territory least he become by word much famous through greater folly But suppose he can escape cleanly a while yet will Academicus lye whispring hos ego c. tulit alter honorem I could saye something which I leaue expecting alteration of disposition that would be like a water of great force to trye whether there were any figges in theyr bellyes or no but because the one may be wiser then the other I keepe silence hoping that Philoponos shall haue good words for his good will and I would pray them all that old Philadelphus for his friendly dealing might be free from their furie but no salue I thinke can cure that sore for this will euer be true Inuidia virtutis comes Enuy followes vertue at the hard heeles not to treade in her steps but to trip vp her heeles if she could But to conclude I thinke all haue some kynde of conscience or other and there is magna vis conscientiae magna sayth Tully in vtramque partem vt nihil timeant qui nihil commiserint poenam semper ante oculos versariputent qui peccarint A cleere conscience will acquite continually where good meaning is but a canckred hart will alwayes accuse where froward dealing is and so farewell good Reader and iudge as thou seest cause and apply that which is spoken in good will to thine owne profite Vale. From Cambridge Iune the 24. Anno. 1588. T. P. To his louing freend Mayster Clowes IN tempests safe by Pylots skill we sayle In flattering snares true friendship vs vpholds From loathsome greese good comfort doth vs bayle These three in one Clowes Booke to vs vnfolds He stirres the helme and friendly comfort lends When surges rage when snares when griefe off ends When outward sores as boystrous waues do swell When venime hid as flattring tongues do sting When both as greese each hart with torments quell When naught but death doth seeme releefe to bring Then Clowes thy Pylot can from Sea to shore From payne to ioy from sicke to sound restore Once Aesculapius Theseus sonne did cure Machaon once did Philoctetes saue Their prayse for this vnsteyned doth endure Such iust reward good skill and knowledge haue Whome fame vnsought for followeth at the last Which sought for by vnskilfull flyes as fast Clowes as Apollos sonne by Art is sayd Not one but sundry Hippolites to saue And Banester Machaon seemes whose ayde As many Phyloctetes dayly craue How then shall these not liue in trumpe of same Since thousands cured shall extoll their name Amongst which sort my selfe although the last Yet not the least part of their cure did find Whose arme past cure an Atrophy did wast And sinewes shronke contracted out of kind Which past all skill vnskilfull Surgeons thought To health by skill these skilfull Surgeons brought But as the sweetest cloath the moathes do eate And freshest Rose the cancker seekes to spill And as the statelyest towres the winde doth beate And fretting lightning strikes the loftiest hill So enuy seekes the deadly foe of fame By slanderous toongs to hinder their good name The Dogs their vomit loues the Goates their crags The Swine delight to tumble in the mire Our common prouerbe telles that scuruie nags Are fittest for to please a scabbed squire No maruell then though folly such embrace Which seeke by lyes these skilfull mens disgrace Yet they shall shyne as gold that rusteth not When these as drosse with shame consumd shall lye Repining much that no report may blot The rightfull prayse which of these twayne shall flye So Momus shall with these compared fleet As doth the Beetle vnder Roses sweet Feare not therefore these slanderous toongs reports Which strike the best but bad vntoucht do saue Of your good names they batter not the forts But hating skilfull shew what skill they haue Continue fast strange cures procure your fame Do good and none but bad will touch your name T. P. Now as followeth is set downe those cures which by Gods helpe haue bene finished and brought to perfite health The cure of two Gentlemen greeuously burned with Gunpouder Chap. I. ALthough it bee the maner of Fugitiues and Landlepers which runne and gad from Countrey to Countrey and from towne to towne proclaiming their cures at the Market Crosse as did not long since one raunging runnagate who called himselfe Iohannes Petrus aliàs Scleeues which would needes take vpon him to cut of a great Wenne that long time had growne on

water and vineger so that it be fit as neere as you can gesseit to the compasse of the stumpe or member that is taken of and thereon spred of the restrictiue and vpon that you shall lay an other broder bedde of Towe made vp as aforesayd so large that it may compasse the member ouer that it may be safely tyed to keepe fast on the rest and vpon the two beds of Tow spred the Restrictiue reasonable thicke afore you place them to and you shall tye on the large bedde of Towe being cut first with a payre of Sissers in iiii parts thereof one cut right ouer against another an inch long and somewhat more that the sayd bed may be bound to with the more ease And you shall tye the large bed to as I sayd with a ligature which they call a chokeband doubled two or three times being flat and fully an inch broade and a yarde long in the middle of the sayd ligature you shall spred some of the restrictiue wherby it may take the better hold to the large bedde of Towe after it hath remayned on a small time being thus fast tyed then you shall place vpon these a double large bedde of soft linnen cloth and then with a strong rouller of foure inches broade and three or foure yards long let it bée artificially roulled and where as the bloud beginneth to shew through all in that place you shall specially lay a good compressor or thicke bolster made of Towe wrought vp in water and vineger the thicknesse almost of a mans hand and thinne towards the edges and in compasse of a Philips dollar more or lesse as you suppose the greatnesse of the fluxe to bee and couch them close to in as many places as the bloud doth shew it selfe and thus with thrée or foure roullers and as many soft linnen beddes some single and some double with sufficient number of bolsters some great and some small you shall artificially stay the fluxe of bloud which order and way did yet neuer fayle me nor any other that haue vsed the same according vnto the order here prescribed Some also doe vse to drawe ouer the great bed of Towe a wet Oxe bladder and pulleth it close vp ouer the same the which they tye fast to with the aforesayd ligature or chokeband and vpon the same a double or single linnen bed and thus with a fewe broade bolsters and roullers they also very orderly stay the fluxe of bloud All which being orderly done then you shall easely as possible may be carie the patient to his bed hauing a pillowe made readie to rest the member on Thus let him lye with as much quietnesse as may be kéeping a conuenient diet then the third or fourth day you shall haue in a readinesse steuphs of white wine with a decent rouller c. Likewise prepare for the second preseruation of the wound this digestiue or the like Digestiue Rec. Terebinthinae in Auqa vitae lotae ℥ iiij Vitellorum ouorum nu ij Olei Ros ℥ ss Sir Ros ℥ j. Masticis ʒ ij Farinae hordei q. s. Croci ℈ j. Misce And applie vpon the same digestiue this plaster following or the plaster called Flos vnguentorum 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 steade thereof Hyosciami lutei the quantitie aforesayd boyle all these till the iuyce be consumed then strayne it and after make it vp in rouffes This plaster I haue proued to bee good for wounds made with gunshot And after the wound is well digested and brought to perfect matter then you may mundifie the same with this gentle mundificatiue 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 ana ℥ iij. Olei mastic Hyperic Misce Or this Vnguentum mundificatiuum Rec. Mellis ℥ x. ana ℥ j. Farinae Siliginis Lupinorum Hordei ana ℥ ss Myrrhae Aloes ana ℥ iij. Succi apij Absinthij Terebinthinae clarae ℥ ij Misce fiat vnguentū secundū artem For Incarnatiues you may vse vnguentum aureum vnguentum ceraseos Mesuae or that which is of my collection specified in my booke De Morbo Gallico or this Incarnatiue following which I haue vsed 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 vnguentum And sometimes I mixed herewith Alluminis combust in aceto rosarum and being made into very fine powder q. s. it would then also gently clense without payne c. And I did vsually deficcat and drie vp the same with this Desiccatiue and sometimes with vnguentum de minio c. Vnguentum desiccatiuum Rec. ana ℥ j. Antimonij Cerussae ana ℥ ij Plumbi vsti Lithargiri Terebinthinae Olei rosati ℥ iiij Cerae albae ℥ iij. Misce Powder that which is to bee powdred very finely then dissolue at a gentle fire of coales your Waxe Oyle and Cerebinthine and in the cooling put in the powders c. But if you haue not this my powder alwaies in a readines you may thē vse Vigoes order that is to cauterise the place with a bright cauterising yron fit for the purpose made red hot or els with good Maister Gales powder which I wil hereafter set downe in this booke which powder of his was a worthie inuention and better pleased the patients then the burning yrons which were I say very offensiue vnto the eye and yet the powder wrought with extreme payne and made a very great ascher by that meanes the bone afterwards hath bene cut off newe agayne as I haue seene many times within the Hospitall of S. Bartholmewes and so did make a very long worke or euer they were cured but this powder here published neuer causeth payne but often bringeth with it reasonable white matter The foresayd powder is of my collection and gathering the which I did put first in practise in the Hospitall of Sainct Bartholmewes as it is well knowne vnto some of the Surgions that then serued there and yet liue within this Citie of London who were present with me when I first put it in practise after the order before declared at which time there was taken off in one morning seuen legges and armes and so by Gods assistaunce we stayed al their fluxes of bloud without any payne vnto them but onely in the compression and close roulling and tendernesse of the wound excepted After it was made known there were diuers that were destrous to haue it amongst the rest Maister Crowe a man of good experience

praeparatae ʒ j. ss Olei mastic ℥ iij. Cerae q. s. Misce fiat vnguentum secundū artem And vpon the same the gum plaster and about the parts ●eere vnto the wound I vsed this Defensiue Rec. Vnguentum de bolo ℥ vj. Omnium sandal ʒ j. ss ana ʒ ij Pulu mirtillorum Ros ana ℥ i. ss Olei Ros Mirtini Aceti Ros ℥ ij Albuminis ouorum nu j. Misce Thus with this Balme and these remedies he was perfectly made whole by me and so he returned home to his friends againe c. Or this 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 Rec. ana ℥ ij Myrrhae Aloes Spicae Sanguinis Draconis Thuris Mummiae Opopo Amoniaci Carpo-Bal●am Sarcocoll Croci orient Mastic Gummi arabi Stirac cal Laudani ℥ j. ss Resinae abietinae lib. j. Terebinthinae com lib. viij Vini generosi lib. ss Distillantur ac liquore ponatur Muscigra xv fiat Or this Rec. Terebinthinae lib. j. Olibani ℥ ij ana ℥ j. Aloes cicatri● Gariophilorum Galing Cinamomi Croci Nucis Muscatis Cucubarum Gummi arabici ℥ ij Lignum aloes ℥ j. Mixe these together and then put all into a Stillatorie and still it according to arte c. Or this Balme Rec. Olei com lib. iiij Terebinthinae lib. ij Aquae vitae lib. iiij Viniodoriferi lib. ij Viridis aeris in pul ℥ ij Boyle all these according to arte and last put in your Viridis aeris This was a common Balme and few better known amongst some olde practizers in time past Or this Rec. Olei Terebinthinae lib. j. Vitellorum ouorum ℥ xiiij ana ℥ iij. Resinae pini Myrrhae Gummi hederae ℥ ij Let the yolkes of Egges be first fodden hard then mixe all well together in a Stillatorie and with a soft fire let it bee drawne and there will come first a water and last the Oyle the which ye shal reserue for it healeth wounds very speedily This Oyle was greatly in vse by my Master master George Keble but whether he were the inuenter of it or not I doe not certainly knowe c. A plaster very good for greene wounds practised of late in the Lowe Countries by a worshipfull Gentleman called maister Ierom Farmer a great fauourer and louer of Chirurgerie Paracelsus Plaster Rec. Rad. consolidae maioris lib. j. Fol. Ophioglossi lib. j. ss Vermium terrestr lib. ss Aristolochiae rotundae recenc ℥ iiij All these being greene beate them well and then adde to Vini albi so much in quantitie as will couer all these herbes seeth them in a double vessell well nealed tenne houres these being then strayned and taken out put in newe herbes and rootes and boyle it as aforesayd and then put to it Butiris recent q. s. All these being mixed together let it be boyled in a double vessell which being effectually boyled then strayne it and after set it in the Sunne and reserue it to your vse then take of the foresayd Oyle and virgine Waxe of each a pound and a halfe Lithargiri auri lib. j. Plumbi vstiloti lib. ss Terebinthinae ℥ iiij ana ℥ ss Amoniaci Bdellij ana ʒ vj. Galbani Opoponacis Infuse these in Uineger and so make a plaster according to arte This plaster was giuen me for a secrete by this worshipfull Gentleman Maister Ierom Farmer when I was at Arnam at that time when Nemegam was besieged he desired me to put it in practise at which time diuers 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 enemie being a Pikeman the wound was about seuen inches long entring in at the inside of his right thigh and so passed vpwards and by good happe it rested on Os pubis otherwise he had bene slayne neuerthelesse he was growne very faynt and weake with extreme bléeding So happely hauing things about mee I stayed his bleeding which was good for him and no hurt vnto me as it fell out At the next dressing I applyed a Defensiue about the wound and then I warmed well some of my oyle of Hypericon cum gummis published in my booke De Morbo Gallico the which I iniected into the bottome of the wound with a siring then I made a very short rent armed with my vnguentum de Peto and vpon the same the foresayd plaster Thus I dressed him fiue daies and the sixt day I left out the tent cleane and within xiiii daies he was whole and readie to serue in the field agayne Or this Rec. Olei Oliuarum ℥ vj Cerae ℥ j. quibus liquefactis adde 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 Dissolue the Gummes in Uineger xxiiii houres and then boyle it till the Uineger bee euaporate then let it bee strongly strayned and put in these Gummes by litle and litle alwaies stirring it till the Gummes be incorporate with the rest of the powders being finely powdred and searced and last of all put in your Terebinthine and make hereof a plaster according to arte This is the order which I vse in the making of it c. Emplastrum Resoluendum Rec. Amoniaci lib. j. Galbani lib. ss Cerae albae q. s. Misce Emplastrum consolidatiuum desiccatiuum to be vsed in greene wounds in steade of stitching often proued Rec. ana ʒ iiij Gummi Drag Sang. Drag ana ʒ ij Olibani Mastic Myrrhae Boli armeni ℥ j. ss Farinae volat ʒ ss Make all these in very fine powder cum ouorum albuminibus q. s. Misce A good plaster to be vsed for drie stitches of wounds in the face c. Rec. ana ℥ iiij Resinae Resinae pini Picis nig ana ℥ j. Mastic Myrrhae Thuris Olibani Aloes hepat Terebinthinae Gummi Dragagant ʒ vj. Misce fiat Emplastrum Maister Rasius plaister good for to keepe open any issue the which he gaue me for one of his serrets and I haue seene him vse it with great profice and I haue found pleasure in it my selfe Rec. Cerae albae lib. ss Viridis aeris ℥ iij. Mercur. Sublimat ℥ j. Misce A Cataplasme for Inflammations Rec. ana quart j. Succorum semperuiu● Plantaginis Solani Aquae lenticulae Aceto ℥ j. ana ℥ ● ss Oleorū Ros vel Nympheae Far hordei ℥ ij Fiat A Cataplasme for brused wounds Rec. Rad. altheae lib. ss ana m. j. Fol. Mal. Viol. Terantur coquantur exprimantur deinde adde Butyri Olei com ana ℥ iij. Tria ouorum vitellorum croci modicum Far. triticeae

Vnguentum Aegyptiacum Auicennae Incarnatiues or Regeneratiues Vnguentum Aureum Vnguentum ceras Mesuae vtrumque Emplastrum de gratia Dei de farina Desiccatiues or drying Medicines Vnguentum de minio Vnguentum desiccatiuum rub Emplastrum de cerussa Vnguents for burnings with Gunpowder Vnguentum fuscum Nicolai Vnguentum de calce viu Vnguentum Magistrale of the Physitions of Florence described by Weckerus Medicines to repell and keepe backe Vnguentum de bolo communi Vnguentum rosarum Mesues c. Also Vnguentum pro vstionibus after Paracelsus which was greatly commended to me by a Phisition and Surgeon of good account but as yet I haue not proued 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 pinte and so make héere of an Unguent according to Arte let the part affected bée anoynted herewith till the payne be ceased and the wound cured Of Syrups these be conuenient Acetosus simplex A Syrupe of the iuyce of Endiue or De duabus radicibus without vineger Mell rosarum in small quantitie Of waters these shall suffice ana q. s. Water of Endiue Hops Borage Wormewood Fumitory Of Electuaries these they shall haue with them Diaphoenicon Elec. de succo rosarum after Mesue and Diacatholicon Also Cassia Pilles they must haue Pillulae Hierae cum agarico Pillulae de fumoterrae the greater and the lesse Against the disease Opthalmia they must haue Aqua Rosacea And a sief without Opium Oleum Rosaceum Myrtillorum Chamomillinum Oleum Omphacinum And it is conuenient that they haue with them Farinae Fabarum Orobi Lini Foenugreci and Aqua vitae Hordei Lupinorum Tritici Emplasters Emp. despeciebus Emp. Diachalciteos Emp. Cum Gummis Emp. Sticticum Paracelsi Emp. Hyoscyami Lutei of my inuention Emp. Cumini good for cold and windie swellings Emp. Flos vnguentorum Emp. de minio Unguents c. Vnguentum Dialthaeae Vnguentum Album Rasis Vnguentum de peto of my inuention Arceus Liniment for wounds in the head and his plaster for the same Also Vnguentum pro Spasmo Balsamum Artificiale Oleum Hyperic cum Gummis Oleum Catulorum Oleum Lumbricorum Oleum Ouorum Oleum Scorpionis Oleum Amygdalarum dul Butyrum Recens A Lotion for sore mouthes good for such as haue the Scorbuto as at Sea and other places I haue seene for the perfect cure of it I referre you to Wyerus which booke Maister Hunton hath of late translated into English Mythridatum or fine Venice Triacle Spermaceti french Barley Licoris and Anniseedes very necessary to make Barley water and Potus Antiochiae for wounds in the bodie c. For Cataplasmes Flores Ros in pul Flores Chamomil in pul Flores Melilot in pul Rad. Altheae in pulu To rebate spungious flesh c. Mercury Praecipitat Mercury sublimat Allumen roch Vitriolum Acetum Also Egges Towe Splints for fractured bones Tape to binde Cupping or boxing glasses A Chafingdish of Copper Brasse or Iron A Morter and a Pestell Blood Porrengers Powders to restraine great fluxes of bloud Galens Powder Gales Powder Or my Powder may suffice Small and long waxe Candles made of Tinne Leade Siluer or Wood c. A sharpe Sawe A Catlin An Incision knife Néedles two or three some of eight tenne or thirteene inches in length hauing a decent eye in it guttered like a Spanish néedle fit to drawe a flamula or peece of fine Lawne or linnen cloath through a member that is wounded c. Small buttons or cauterising yrons meet to stay the fluxe of an arterie or veyne if great necessitie do so require A Trepan A head Sawe An Eleuatorie A Dilatorium to open a wound that a Darthead Arrow-head or bullet may the better be taken out with a Rostrum Coruinum or Rauens bill or with a Rostrum Anatinum or Ducks bill or with a Rostrum Gruinum fashioned like a Storcks bill or Cranes bill There bee in vse of these two sorts one bowing and the other straight A Speculum oris for the mouth A Syringe As for stitching quills and other instruments that a Surgeou ought alwaies to carrie about him I leaue vnspoken of There are also many other Instruments I knowe which are in vse but these may suffice for young practizers of the Arte and vnto men of great knowledge and experience it is needlesse for me to nominate the rest A necessarie note or obseruation for the cure of one Maister Buckland dwelling as he sayd at the signe of the George at Reading a towne in Barkshire he receiued a puncture or pricke into the sinewe or nerue of his right arme by a most impudent and ignorant bloud-letter which did pricke the sinewe in stead of the liuen veyne THis Maister Buckland hauing a full and plethorick bodie and therevpon enclined to sicknes made his iourney vp to London only to take phisicke which he did by the counsell of Maister Doctor Symons who was in times past one of his olde acquaintance After his bodie was well prepared and purged his Phisition prescribed him farther remedie by a bill and amongst other things that the patient should be let bloud to the value of eight ounces 〈…〉 the liuer veyne appoynting him thereunto also a 〈…〉 dwelling in this Citie called Maister Morland but as he sayd fortune owing him dispite by chaunce that Chirurgion was not at home being called otherwise about some speciall cures and therefore it was sayd his comming home to be vncertaine With that a friend of Maister Buckland that did come to visite him and after speeches had vnderstanding that he wanted one to let him bloud sayd If it please you I will send for one that I do partly knowe not only to bee a good Surgeon but for letting of bloud and drawing of a tooth he is supposed to be as skilfull as any man in this towne Now such a one sayd he that can so well let bloud I would willingly heare and if it will please you I will send my man for him in your name In fine a bad thing was easie to finde for he was presently brought Then Maister Buckland as you haue heard being the sicke patient deliuered vnto this bloud-letter the Phisitions bill which was written in English but be answered and sayd Truely I can neither write nor reade neuerthelesse doubt you of nothing but I can and will do it as well as any man whatsoeuer I dare make that comparison quoth he so the patient did reade the bill vnto him which did signifie that there should bee eight ounces of bloud taken from the liuer veyne on the right arme O the liuer veyne sir sayd he I knowe it as well as all the Phisitions and Surgeons in this towne and so without any longer detracting of time he went about his busines and did so be rubbe and chase his arme as though he had

the engendring or breeding of the sodering humour wherewith the bones is knit and vnited which is made as it is truely sayd of good nourishmēt inclining to grossenes Now to come vnto the manner and order of placing of the splints which was set vpon the sayd roullers which splints were made of light willowe wood very plaine and smooth and being blunt and round at both endes well wrapped about and also bolstered with towe which I placed vpon the member round the breadth of a finger betweene euery splint and sometimes further of or neerer as cause required Then with good strong tape I did moderatly and gently binde them well together which being done I layd or placed the member as seemely and decently as possible might be in a double linnen towell roulled vp at both the ends with a good quantitie of great Rushes such as our Chaundlers vse 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 meanes any way mooue his broken legge but safely and quietly rested as though it had been layd in that famous Instrument called of the learned Glossocomium which Instrument serueth to extend or to stretch out a fractured member and also serueth for the vse afore declared The manner order and true vse thereof was first reuealed and plainly shewed vnto diuers Chirurgions of this Citie of London when I was my selfe in presence by Maister Doctor Foster the Reader of the Chirurgerie Lector in the Phisitions Colledge And to conclude after I had safely layd in his legge as aforesayd then he rested so reasonable quietly for the space of fourtéene daies and then vpon a sodaine without any reasonable cause knowne there did begin to rise a verie paynfull Itch with an inflammation then I followed the direction of Wecker and somented the member first with warme water to this end and purpose that the humour which was enclosed might the more easily euaporate and breath out which done I annoynted the member round about with Vnguentum populeon Vnguentum album ana q. s. then I vsed also this plaister Rec. Emplastri Diachalciteos ℥ viij Olei Myrtillorum ℥ j. Succi granatorum ℥ ss Albumin ouorum nou ij Misce After I did roule vp the member agayne in the same manner and order as is before declared And thus by the vse of these remedies his Itch and inflammation was remoued 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 vppon me to haue great care and regarde of the health of this wounded man I thought it nothing hurtful vnto my credite to require counsell And hereunto I did diuers times call to visite my patient my approoued good friend Maister Banester whose counsell vnto me herein was not a little profitable To conclude after I had cured and healed him both the patient and his friends seemed to be somewhat discontented and vsed some words but to small effect which kind of speeche is compared by a learned man vnto mightie waters that drowne the people and doth it selfe no profite And forsooth the chiefest matter was besides that they were ●oth to part from their monie only for that his fractured leg was somewhat shorter then the other but I told them agayn that much might be done in young persons which in aged oftentimes did not so happely fall out as we do wish and looke for For example calling then to mind that a fewe yeres past a youth being about the age of tenne or eleuen yeeres whose name was called Martine Aude he did commonly resort vnto ● Brewers house in Bishops gate streate where he also did dwell In the same Brewhouse was a horsemill grinding of malt and there this sayd youth with other resorted to play and so running about the mill after the horse did by chaunce vnawares go so néere the mill that sodainly the milstone did take 〈…〉 of his coate and so did drawe him into the mill and the mi●●●ne did runne ouer his thigh and fractured the bone Os femoris in diuers peeces then by reason of his noyse and crying the fellow that did leade the horse very sodainly staie● and so the mill otherwise all his whole bodie had been drawne in and crushed or broken in peeces Then I was sent for and likewise Maister George Baker Chirurgeon which being both together we placed agayne the fractured bones and also applyed thereto conuenient remedies And so here to make an end without further circumstances he was by vs in a reasonable time perfectly c●red And now he liueth at this day being a very strong and lustie man without lamenes or any other imperfection of that legge Here I will conclude this brief obseruation which I haue published for young practizers which are as I haue sayd fauourers of learning and louers of arte as you shall perceiue by the course of my writing but not for the learned or men of great knowledge and experience neither to my remembraunce I haue in this whole discourse by bayne delusions published any straunge paradoxes or new found remedies which as sayth Erastus a man of many great gifts iudgement and experience who as it is thought was neither ambitious nor affectioned willeth that al such remedies should bee shunned and not vsed his meaning is except those which are well approoued and best in effect and are found plentifully described in the bookes of famous men which were before our time as I haue in this booke many times repeted c. The cure of a Marriner which had two of his ribbes fractured or broken with a violent blow of a capsten barre in one of her Maiesties Shippes which brused him very ●ore at the same present time he was throwne downe vpon the carriage of a great peece of Ordnance which brused him agayne very greatly in other parts of his bodie Therefore such as will take vppon them to attempt the like cures shall not vtterly bee deceiued of their intent and purpose I Thinke it good without any longer discourse so briefly as I can here to publish and plainlie expresse the truth of my practize in this cure and so with all faithfulnes industrie and diligence to procéed vnto the rest for the commoditie of such as are not vnthankfull quarrel pickers who in the burning flames of their wicked affections mooue speeches more curious then necessarie speaking euill of good and good of euill whereas wee are otherwise taught to embrace the good and to hate the euill such is the nature of the wicked which delight in their vngodlinesse Blame me not good reader and louing brethren though I speake so much and so oftentimes almost in euery place throughout this booke of the manifold abuses of scoffers and scorners who daylie more and more increase in troupes and are puffed vp not only agaynst me with most haughtie stout and stately

liue and maintaine themselues according to their calling Yet all that will not serue the turne for my good mistris his wife will needes become a Phisition and a Surgeon and forsooth he must followe her presumptious minde to paynt her out in s●●kes veluets in the highest degree for that carrieth credite to her cunning and brings in mouie 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 euils whereby her Maiestie shall haue great want of sufficient and skilfull Chirurgeons to be found in England able to do seruice in the time of warres And vnlesse God of his mercifull goodnes do moue the hearts of godly Magistrates for sp●●●● redresse they will bee the only ouerthrowe of Chi 〈…〉 in this land For it is come to passe at this day 〈…〉 ●●n being of any credite 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 apprentise vnto the Arte of Surgerie And why Because there are in these dayes in towne and countrie such a number of abusers that practise Chirurgerie which are the onely doers and cause of all these euills It may seeme vncredible that there is not at this present time of sufficient and able Chirurgeons to bee found in London scarse halfe the number which were lately employed in her Maiesties seruice with Generall Norice Sir Fraunces Drake And yet the greater fort of those that are gone are very poore men and so poore in deede that some of them went out very slenderly furnished some with a little Chirurgerie stuffe in a schollers satchell other some in budgets bagges being very vnfit furniture to serue in her Maiesties seruice Unfortunate and vnhappie shall that Souldier be that tasteth of these Surgeons wants And the chiefe causers of these euills are those abusers aforesayd Moreouer what a pitifull thing is it to heare that at their departure from their poore wiues and children leauing them in such extreme necessitie 〈…〉 they arriued at the first Port their wiues and children complayned and craued to haue some succour releefe But who hath succoured or relieued them that is best knowne to themselues And if their necessitie be such at their going out what will be their state in time Or els if by fortune of warres some of them be cut off then these poore women and children may liue in great miserie And the causers of these euilis bée these abusers aforesaid Also I cannot in this place passe ouer in silence sith it is come vnto my memorie a newe litter of abusers of Surgerie and the professors thereof and they are start out of their kenell of late deuising amongst themselues a trade neuer seene nor heard on before and these do hunt after hurt and wounded met and al other persons whatsoeuer be it maister or mistris manseruant or mayd c. if they bee affected with any kinde of griefe belonging to Surgerie With all such persons they will take acquaintance although peraduenture they neuer sawe some of them afore and then like pettie foggers or counterfeyt brokers craftely will inquire what Surgeon looketh on them and if they say they are vnprouided then they will cast a figure offer them their seruice presently to fetch the only man in the towne This proffered seruice many takes very kindly and promising to acquite his courtesie if he will performe his sayings Then without further ado packs away this pettie fogger deuising where he may make his best market And in the ende finding a fit man for his purpose he begins to babble for his brokerige after this manner There is a friend of mine sayth he and one of my old acquaintance is wounded and hurt c. and for very good will I am come to you before another because I knowe you are a skilfull man Neuerthelesse I am a good fellowe as you knowe and therfore I will looke to haue a share for my paynes because I bring the cure vnto you What is your meaning sayth he It is thus if you do make three pounds of the cure I will then haue of it twentie shillings and you shall haue twentie shillings towards your medicines and twentie shillings more for your paynes and yet you may say I do befriend you for I haue had diuers times the one halfe of others An old saying need makes the old wife trot The good man had rather giue part of the fruites of his labour vnto this proulling fellowe wherein he hath no right then he would sit still and want to sustayne himselfe and his familie These iniuries are most grieuous that bring thus with them innumerable of inconueniences And remedie there is none to bridle such pillers and poullers O Lord what a sort of these euils follow immediatly one after another Consider I beseech you how Chirurgerie in these daies is promoted aduaunced when such men which haue a long time practised this profession with credite and good liking are constrayned for want of maintenance to giue ouer the Arte cleane and now forced to liue by other kind of trades And the causers of all these abuses are the abusers in this booke published Thus courteous and louing Reader I haue waded into the very bottome of mine abilitie but yet I confesse I still find nothing answerable vnto my well meaning yet alwaies I rest in this hope that that which I haue here in all my discourse spoken without offence vnto any good man may the eas●ier be past ouer without any griefe to me at all but if any do here at picke quarels or maligne my doings marke them well as I haue before sayd and you shall perceiue them to bée some of those galdbacke Jades which I haue touched to the quicke Now last of all only it resteth that if it shall please God that these my labours bee so happie as to content my louing Patrones I meane all the true professors of Chirurgerie wheresoeuer referring the view vnto their good considerations censures and iudgements expecting all your friendly supportation and thus I leaue you in the Lord who knoweth that all our labours are done in vayne except he in mercie prosper them Amen Finis William Clowes Maister in Chirurgerie VVhē valiāt Mars with braue warlike band In foughten feeld with sword sheeld doth stād May there be mist a Surgeon that is good To salue your wounds and eke to stay your blood To cure you sure he will haue watchfull eye And with such wights he meanes to liue and dye So that agayne you must augment his store And hauing this he will request no more THE SVRGEONES CHEST VVith willing minde good Reader I thee craue To weigh the toyle and carefull paynes men haue VVhich once begins to do such VVorks as this May sometimes erre and runne his pen

salis com ʒ ij fiat clister Pilles for Alopecia ex Morbo Gallico Rec. rhabarbari agarici ana ʒ ij aloes ℥ j. argent viui 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 diuitibus adde limaturae auri aut pannorum auri ℈ iiij A sweete water to cicatrize vlcers and to heale the itch Rec. aquae rosar lib. ij vini albi lib. ij vrinae pueri lib. j. malecorij ℥ iij. balaustij ℥ ij aluminis vsti ℥ 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 oyntment for the itch and scabbes Rec. olibani ʒ iii. ol laurini ℥ i. falis grossi ʒ vij axungiae porcinae ℥ j. ss argent viui extincti ʒ iij. cerae albae ʒ ii ss misce fiat vnguent quo vngantur manus pedes vesperi contra ignem luculentum donec cutem intrauit totum A Collirium for vlcers of the yard of Morbus Gallicus Rec. vini albi lib. i. aquae rosarum plantag ana lib. ii auripigmēti ʒ ii virid aeris ʒ i. aloes myrrhae ana ℈ ii terantur subtilissime fiat collirium An Iniection drying vlcers and cicatrizing without payne Rec. aquae fabrorum lib. ss nuc cupressi gallarum cort granat ana ʒ i. ss alluminis rochae ʒ ss bulliant omnia simul secundum artem fiat iniectio FINIS To the Reader GOod Reader in viewing certaine olde Bookes of Chirurgerie I happened to light vpon this written coppie and perusing it thoroughly I thought it a worke verie profitable and necessarie for all godly professors of our Arte for heere they shall finde in breefe certayne iudgements and aphorismes of most imperfections which dayly assaulteth mans bodie not onely in the exterior but also in the interior partes which diseases or griefes are easie to be found because it goeth alphabetically first in latin and then in english It is a worke as I iudge gathered out of diuers Authors as well of Physick as of Chirurgerie by some that was willing to profit his countrey and common wealth A collection in mine opinion woorthy the publishing and setting foorth although I knowe it will not please the humors of some captious heads that will neyther do good themselues nor suffer others as I my selfe and other good men haue tasted of their sclanderous toongs and vnmannerly backbiting taunts But thou good Reader whatsoeuer thou art if thou louest thy countrey and common wealth or dost take pleasure in our so worthy an Arte hauing a care to discharge thy calling with a good conscience then I say thou wilt not onely finde great profit and pleasure thy selfe by carying these small sentences in memorie but also thou wilt be thankefull to any that shall take paynes in so woorthye a thing FINIS De Apostematibus Apostematis tempora quatuor The foure times of Apostemes 1. Beginnning 2. Augmentation 3. State 4. Declination INitium cognoscitur ex humorum in aliqua parte corporis coaceruatione The beginning is knowne by the gathering of humors in any part of the bodie Augmentum ex doloris tumoris incremento The augmentation is knowne by the encrease of payne and swelling Status quoniam dolor neque accidentia crescunt aut diminuunt sed quasi in centro sistunt The state is knowne when as neither the paine nor accidents do encrease or diminish but do stand as it were in a stay Declinatio fit per accidentium doloris decrementum The declination is knowne by the diminishing of the payne and accidents Apostemata quatuor intentionibus curantur scilicet resolutione suppuratione putrefactione induratione Impostumes are cured by foure intentions viz. by resolution suppuration putrifying and hardning Apostemata quae non cito ad suppurationem vel declinationem perueniunt 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 softnesse in the vpper parts are easie to be cured Apostemata ad suppurationem iam peruenta celeri gradu curanda sunt Impostumes that are come to suppuration must speedily bee cured Apostema si suppurationem recusat neque declinare omnino concedet malum Impostumes that come not speedily to suppuration or declination are euill Apostematis augmento vtere mollificantibus In the augmentation of Impostumes vse mollificatiues Apostemata pulsationem habet dum humores vertuntur in putrefactionem sic fit in arterijs Impostumes doe beate whilest the humors doe turne to putrifaction and so it chaunceth in the arteries Apostematis corruptio ex abundantia materiae vel eiusdem materiae malignitate aut prauitate prouenit The corruption of Impostumes commeth by aboundance of matter or by the malignitie or vilenesse thereof Apostematum quaedam terminantur per insensibilem resolutionem hoc est valde bonum quaedam per virulentiam hoc est pessimum si fuerint in locis ex directo cordis aut prope mortale est Some Impostumes ende by insensible resolution which is very good and some turne to a poysoned qualitie which is very euill and if those bee in places agaynst the heart or neere vnto it it is deadly Apostematum quaedam sunt de materia calida terminantur in die 20. quaedam de materia frigida terminantur in 40. die There be some Impostumes which come of hote matter and they are ended in xx daies and some there bee which proceede of colde and are ended in xl daies Apostematum quaedam sunt cum faebribus continuis si expuant saniem ante 7. diem impossibile est quod euadant quoniam quum tam cito natura generat saniem natura nó inuenit omnino viam vnde eam expellat si virtus est debilis cito morietur si multa bona signa apparent dicit Hyppocr vita pollicetur Some Impostumes haue continuall feuers and if they spit matter before the 7. day it is vnpossible for them to escape because when nature so speedily engendreth matter she findeth not sufficient way to expell it And if the partie bee weake he dyeth speedily but if many good signes appeare saith Hyppocrates he may liue Omne apostema de materia adusta sicut Anthrax Carbunculus formica pessimum est mortale praesertim cum febre Euery Impostume comming of burnt matter