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A01943	The composition or making of the moste excellent and pretious oil called oleum magistrale First published by the commaundement of the King of Spain, vvith the maner hovv to apply it particulerly. The which oyl cureth these diseases folowi[n]g ... Also the third book of Galen of curing of pricks and wounds of sinowes. A method for curing of vvounds in the ioynts, and the maner how to place them. Abreef gathering togither of certain errours which the common chirurgians dayly vse ... Faithfully gathered and translated into English by George Baker chirurgian. 1574.	Baker, George, 1540-1600.; Galen. De compositione medicamentorum secundum locos.	1574 (1574)	STC 1209; ESTC S100526	50,504	142

aforesaid accidents and especially if they be in the interior partes as vnder the arme holes the bought of the arme in the wrists or in the hammes or groynes By reason of the great Vaines Arteryes and Nerues whiche are in those partes and by the meanes of solution of continuitie that are in those partes causeth great pain flux of blood and other like accidents For the ordering of the whiche you must perseuer according to the nature of the said accidents in staying the flux of blood and appeasing the pain asmuch as you can possible and if the wound be great you shall stitch it leauing an Orifice in the lower parte therof for to giue issue to the matter this beeing doon you shall apply this poulder folowing the space of ij or three dayes to preserue the stitches Rec. Thuris sanguinis draco Boli armenici terrae sigil ana drach 2. Aloes mast ana drach 1. fiat puluis subtilis The whiche poulder you shall apply vpon the seme and round about the ioint a defensiue made of the whites of Egges Oil of Roses Bol Mastick and Barly meale And if you apply any tent he must be short and not to big lest hee should cause pain which tent shal be applyed with a disgestiue made with the yolk of an Egge Oil of Roses and a little saffron Also if the said wound be little and straight rather then to fal into these aforsaid accidents you shall inlarge it to the end that the humours which be come to the part by reason of the pain may haue a large issue Moreouer the afflicted part must haue rest and be kept frō colde and also from medicines which dooth relax soften or moist but contrary wise they must be astringant and dry as this Cataplasma folowing Rec. Furfuris maciris farinae hordei et fabar ana vnces 4. Flor. Camomille Melliloti ana half an handful Terebent vnces 3 Mellis communis vnces 2. Olei mirh vnces 1. Oximel sump vel Oxicrat vel Lixiuij qui suff fiat Cataplasme ad formam pultis Or els this Rec. the lyes of wine wheat Bran Cipres Nuts Galles and Terebenthine with this make a Cataplasma many suche other like may bee made but this shall suffise For those that be applyed on these parts must restrain dry and corroborate or strengthen the ioints this dooing you shall ceasse the pain and keep the humor from the afflicted parte Moreouer this is to be noted that neither within the wound nor without you shall applye any Oilly or greasy medicine for asmuch as it relaxeth the substance of the muscles membranes and Nerues by the which meanes it dooth make the place more apt to receiue defluxions And also it dooth so relax and moisten the woūd that it is a great hindrance to the consolidation Therfore the medicines which ought to be vsed in this cause must be desiccatiue and astringant as this that foloweth which is bothe astringant desiccatiue and glutinatiue Rec. Terebint venic vnces 2. Aqua vitae parum Pul. aloes Mast mirh Bol armene ana 2. scrupples And so applyed as need shall require or some other good Balme beeing applied with desiccatiue poulder so that the poulder be without any sharpnes and if there come any accidents it shal be remedied by medicins contrary to the same according as néede shall require And this is a principall thing to bee looked vnto that you keep the wound from colde the which is all togither contrary bothe to wounds and vlcers by the which menes a great number haue perished as Hippocrates Hippo. 5. Aphoris 20 testifieth saying that to all vlcers the colde is biting it hardeneth the skin it causeth pain and keepeth wounds from suppuration for asmuch as it dooth choke the naturall heat which should bring suppuration and causeth the place to be euil colored with shakings feuers conuolsions and extentions So that the excrements whiche doo auoid is a glittīg Musceledge thin or watrish humor which dooth commonly folow in these kindes of wounds for because it is a proper humor that floweth out of these woūds for euery place dooth giue his proper humor as for example the bone beeing broken the nourishment of them engendreth a Calus Now this humor whiche commōly issueth out of the neruous places is mixed with colde whiche causeth extreme pain and resisteth the medicins although they be potentiall hot To appease the foresaid pain and to correct the intemperature of the colde humor you shall apply warme thinges not onely potentially but also actually as a Bullocks bladder béeing half filled with some resolutiue medicin and warmed or of Bricks beeing made very hot and then quenched in Wine and so applyed about the ioint and to heat them as often as need shall require By this actuall heat nature is holpen to disgest and resolue the humor contained in the place and dooth strengthen it for because that the ioynts haue but little heat in them for the whiche cause there be few medicins that wil profit except they be actually hot Wherfore I wil conclude that the offēce of the iointꝭ is increased rather of colde then of heat For the which cause the Methodicall Chirurgian must haue a great respect to these wounds in taking his Iudication of things naturall not naturall and against nature And moreouer he must haue the knowledge how to place the wounded ioints which shal be shewed héer folowing The situation of the wounded Ioint IF the wound be in the fore parte of the shoulder This is ment by great woūdes in the ioints you shall lay vnder the arme hole a Boulster and cary your arme in a Towel bearing vp the elbow to the end that you may raise and holde vp the bone and so to kéep him in his right place for by this meanes the glutination and consolidation shall the better and sooner be doon And if the wound be in the lower parte then when you see that nature beginneth to ingender flesh and that the lips of the wound beginneth to close you shall haue good respect to cause the Patient often to lift vp and down his arme for if you doo forslewe this and that the Cicatrice be once made the patient shal neuer lift his arme hye but with great pain The situation of the Elbow IF the wound be in the Ioint of the Elbow you shall situate the arme in a meane forme that is to say neither to straight nor to muche bowing in for if the arme be healed in a meane forme the diseased partie shall haue the vse of it a great deale the better then otherwise he should haue had if it had béen to straight or to much bowing in The situation of the VVrists WHen the wound is in the outward or inward parte of the wrists or in the ioints of the fingers The hand and the fingers must be situated half bowing and you shall put within the hand some round Ball or compressor for because that if he keep his hands

swelling of the Coddes and yard and glistereth like vnto a slikt paper which comes sudainly and is round and light so that there be not another humour adioyned with it This is to be cured with Carnificatiues as Oleum nucum Oleum Anethinum Costinum c. and there may be added to of Séeds and hearbes as Semen anisi Carui Faeniculi Agni casti Ruta Calaminta Origani c. Hernie Humorale HErnie Humorale is an Apostume contained likwise in the cods whiche is ingendred of humors hot and colde not muche declining from his naturall habite which may lye betwéen Scrotum and Dartos or betwéen heritroydes and Dartos or onely within heritroydes as for the causes signes and curation are like to other Apostumes Now that I haue declared the definition causes and signes of hernies it shall not be amisse to expound in few woords those parts which must be opened when any of these kindes must be cured by handy operation and this is tobe noted first that the Testicles are couered with three Tunicles the first of them takes his originall of the skin is called Scrotum or pursse the second which takes his originall of the Peretoneū and is called Dartos the third whiche is proper to the said Testicle and is called Heritroydes these two last doo not onely couer the Testicles but also the Spermatike vessels aswell they whiche bring the substance where with the Sperme is made which are named Preparans as thē which bring the Sperme to the neck of the bladder which is called Eiaculatoires or expelling the which goes vp to Osepubis The declaratiō of the waights and mesures vsed in Chirurgery HEer gentle Reader I thought good to declare certain waights and mesures for the better vnderstāding of this book of Galens and all other of his woorks to the end that yung Studients in this art should haue none occasion of let frō the perfit vnderstanding of it and first I wil shew you how they were called in the olde time of the Greekꝭ also of the Romains and as neer as I can how muche euery one dooth contain according to our measure And as for the names of the simples I thought it good to write them in the Latin as they were for by the searching of their english names the Reader shall very much profit and another cause is that I would not haue euery ignorant asse to be made a Chirurgian by my Book for they would doo more harme with it then good First Mina which the Gréeks call Mna there are of diuers sortes for some are Romain others Attique others Egiptienne others Alexandrine but Romains is according to Paulus Aegineta and Galens 16. vnces The pound according to the Romains is 12. vnces The Attique and Egiptienne is .16 vnces The vnce whiche is the 12. parte of a pound is 8. Drams Deunx is 11. vnces which are .264 Scrupples that is 2. third partes and 1. fourth parte of a pound Dextans is the half and the third part of a pound that is to say 10. vnces and 240. Scrupples Vitruuius in his third Booke saith that it is the measure of ten Inches Dodrans is the half and one quarter of a pound which is 230. Scrupples Vitruuius in his Book afore said dooth call Dodrans the measure of 12. Inches Bis is 2. third partes which is 8. vnces and 240. Scrupples Sextunx is 1. half and 1. twelf parte that is 7. vnces and 168. Scrupples Selibra is half a pound or Semis and 144. Scrupples Quincunx is 5. vnces Triens is the 3. parte of a pound which is 4. vnces and 120. Scrupples Quadrans is the 4. parte of a pound which is 3. vnces and 72. Scrupples Sextans is the 6. part of a pound whiche is 2. vnces and 48. Scrupples Vnsia is to say an vnce whiche is 8. Drams Semiuncia is half an vnce Denarius or Drachma is the 8. parte of an vnce and is 3. Scrupples which the Gréeks call Grammata that is xxiiij letters in the Gréek and the vnce hath as many Scrupples as the Gréek hath letters Scrupple is as it were the beginning of all waights as an introduction and is 2. Oboles an Oboles is 2. Siliques and a Silique 2. Chalces the Chalces is 8. Graines The pound of liquid things as Wine Oile and such like was in Roome measured by a vessel of Horne whiche had xij rundels about it and euery one of them did signifie an vnce and was called a mesured pound Galen makes mention in his first book Decom medic secundum genera in the making of the white plaister Amphora of the Italy measure dooth contain 72. pound of Oile and of Wine 80 and of Hunny 108. the Hunny is the 4. parte more heuyer then is the wine and the half more then Oile The Ceranium is of Wine and Vinagre 80. pound and of Oile 72. pound and of Hunny 120. pound The Vrne is of wine vinagre 40. l. of Oil 36. l. and of Hunny 60. pound The Conge is of Wine and Vinagre 10. pound of Oil 9. pound and of Hunny 15. pound The Sestier is of Wine and Vinagre 1. pound 8. vnces of Oil 1. pound and of Hunny 2. pound The Hemine is of Wine and Vinagre 10. vnces of Oile 9. vnces and of Hunny 1. pound The Cotile is of Wine and Vinagre 10. vnces of Oile 9. vnces and of Hunny 1. pound The Oxibaphus is of Wine and Vinagre 18. Drams of Oile 18. Drams and of Hunny 27. Drams The Acetabule is of Wine and Vinagre .18 Drams of Oile 18. Drams and of Hunny 27. Drams The Ciath is of Wine and Vinagre 12. Drams and 4. Scrupples of Oile 18 Drams and of Hunny 20. Drams The Cheme is of wine Vinagre 3. Drams and one Scrupple and of Oile 3. Drams and of Hunny 5. Drams The end of waights and measures of the auncient writers ¶ Faults escaped in the Printing ¶ Note wheras you finde this letter a that dooth signifie the first side of the leaf and this letter b the second side In the first page read the third Book of Galen of the composition of medicines in general Then in the first page of the Epistle to the Reader the xij xvi lines for iudications read indications In the 11. leaf a. the xiij and xiiij lines read drachmas for drachmas Opoponacis for Apoponax In the 14. leaf a. and the xix line read the sixth he dooth for he dooth vi loose In the 26. leaf a. and the vi line read Maron for Maron And in the xij line of the same read phou idest for phoud est In the 27. leaf a. the xviij line red the childes parēts did send for Galen for did send him to Galen In the 30. leaf a the first line read Paps or Brests for Dugs In the 31. leaf a. the iiij and v. line leue out the whole and sound partes In the 33. leaf b. the xv line read Olei mirtiles for Olei mirh In the 36 leaf a. the iij. line read bowing for lowing In the 38. leaf a. the xvi line read no apostume in the groin then acording for Apostume according In the 41. leaf a the iiij line read qualitie for qualtitie And in b. the xxiij line read woūd potions for wunted potions Fo. 47. line .6 read is none other thing Gentle Reader I shall most hartely desire thee that if in the reading this work other faults you finde then heer is noted not rashly to cōdemne the Author for assure your self that by his wil none should haue escaped and though the Printer be neuer so careful yet in the printing some wil escape Vale FINIS Imprinted at London at the long Shop adioyning vnto Saint Mildreds Church in the Pultrie by Iohn Alde ¶ Octostichon Ioannis Banisteri Nottinghamiensis medicae Chirurgicae artis professoris in laudem medicinae Miramur crebro medicos molimine claros corpora praeceptis nostra iuuare suis Eccé quót assidué scribūt hinc inde libellos in laudes artis docte Galene tuae Hanc et maiores hanc et coluere minores hijs confert magna parte Bakerus opem Cuius ab ingenio prodit vigilique labore vtilis iste liber dignus ipse legi Hanc artem docuit vasto qui presidet orbi saepius hanc laudat filius ipse dei Haec visum caecis mutis parat ista loquelam hac audit surdus claudus et hac graditur Hac redit in vitam vitali lumine cassus viuere qua vidi qui moriturus erat huic ergo faueāt iunctis vmbonibꝰ omnes et simul huic himnos voce stiloque ferant ¶ Tetrastichon eiusdem in librum Bakeri ¶ Mistica magnoperé quicunque Chirurgica huc debes posita saepe venire mora Hac studij fructus doctissima multa videbis captas abdita quae longo delituere die At nunc sic lucent vt si laudare pararem in mare tunc videar fūdere ineptus aquas Ergo Bakere tuum superabit sidera nomen atque aliqua semper parte superstes eris Gulielmi Clowei Chirurgi Londoniensis carmen encomiastichon ad suum studiosum Georgium Bakerum Laudibus egregiis efferri pulchra solebant nec praeclara sua laude carere decet Quantos idcirco poscat Bakerus honores hoc opere exacto dicito musa mihi Te tua sedulitas transfert ad laudis honorē Et tua te virtus inclyta ad astra vehit Tu magni Hippocratis reseras tu tecte Galeni A tantis ad nos nobile ducis opus Anglia quas fraudes tibi nunc smalkaldia ferret Bakeri clarum si latuisset opus Ergo quisquis Apollinias sectabitur artes Bakerum celebret nocte dieque meum G Good cause of prayse you doo deserue E euertly to set foorth O Olde woorks of Fathers wise and graue R report dooth showe is troth G Giue foorth the same with spéedynes E encline your whole indeuer B Beholde you not what praise it is A a man to liue for euer K Knowing that so the wise doo wright E earth though they truely be R Reuiue again by Books in sight who so wil read may sée ꝙ William Clowes Chirurgian