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A06400 The whole course of chirurgerie wherein is briefly set downe the causes, signes, prognostications & curations of all sorts of tumors, wounds, vlcers, fractures, dislocations & all other diseases, vsually practiced by chirurgions, according to the opinion of all our auncient doctours in chirurgerie. Compiled by Peter Lowe Scotchman, Arellian, Doctor in the Facultie of Chirurgerie in Paris, and chirurgian ordinarie to the most victorious and christian King of Fraunce and Nauarre. Whereunto is annexed the presages of diuine Hippocrates. Lowe, Peter, ca. 1550-ca. 1612.; Hippocrates. Prognostics. English. aut 1597 (1597) STC 16869.5; ESTC S109645 196,926 302

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de sanitate tuenda Lib. de sanitate tnenda 3. lib. de sanitate tuenda 25. lib. cap. 57. Lib. de bono malo succo 2. aphoris Lib. ad glauco 5. aphoris Lib. 1. sanitate tuenda 9. aphoris Lib. 2.3 aphoris Lib. de sanitate tuenda Lib. de victu in morbis acutis Lib. de lusu pile Lib. 2. compen medicine 6. epidemior De morborum causis cap. 5. Lib. 1. simptomatuum causis Paul agineta Lib. 1. Hip. lib. de in somnijs Card. lib. 1. de somnis 6. de tuenda valetudine cap. 5. Aristto Lib. de contradicēt ●us ●edicorum Lib. de oculis In Aphorismis Lib. de somnijs 3. Aphorismorum Iesus lib. de oculis Paulus Aegeneia Lib. 1. cap. 15. Haliab Les. li. 5 Lib. 3. cap. 8. 6. de locis affectis Cap. 5. de animalibus ●●●idimiorū 〈◊〉 simpt causis cap 5. ● method Mirth Lib. 9. cap. 12. Sadnesse Ad Atticum Lib. 7. cap. 36. 5. De Symtomatum causis Shamefastnesse Haliabbas li. 5. Enuie Hatred Esperance Loue. 2. De temperamentis et 1. de Symptomatū causis Lib. de simpt differentijs Definition Galen 2. ad Glan cap. 7. Cause Galen lib. 13. method cap. 5. 6. Galen lib. 2. de differ febr cap vltimo ca. 7. de curatione p. sanguinis missionem 6. epedemiorum Haly abbas lib 8. Signes generall Signes Galen 14. meth cap. 9. Com. 2 3 apho lib. 1. prog Difference Galen lib. tumor cōtra naturam cap. 5. 13. motho cap. Iudgment Gal. ad Glanc cap. 4. lib. 1. 4. method 1. prognostic Gordon perti 1 Degrees Gal. lib. de totius morbi ca. 3. cap. 1. de morbo tēporibus Aetius lib. 4. Aetius lib. 4. cap. 31. Paulus lib. 4. cap. 17. com aphor 47. lib. 2. Cure Galen 13. method cap. 2. Gal. ad Glan ca 2. lib. 3. met cap. 4.5.6 cap. 9. de curatione per sanguinis missionem 5. meth cap. 3. Gal. lib. 5. simplic cap. 19. Gal. lib. 13. method cap. Galen lib. 14. method cap. 1.4.5 Gal. lib. 1. prognost com aphor 35. Gal. lib. 14 method cap. 3. Gal. ad Glanc cap. 2. Gal. lib. 7. method cah 13. ca. 7 lib. 4. method Gal. 2. ad Glan Gal. 7. metho cap. 1● Gal. artis paruae cap. 9. ●●len lib. 2. ad G●aue cap. 2. Antonius Beueuenius Hollerius Marianus sanctus Hipp. 2. progn Cornelius Celsus Galen 13. meth cap. 1. Definition Galen 14. method cap. 1. Differ●●●● Lib. de differentijs morborum cap. 12. Cause Signes Gal. 13. meth cap. 1. Haliabbas lib. 8. Iudgementes Cure Com. 3. epidemiorum Gal. 13. meth cap. 6. Gal. lib. 1. simp cap. 6. Gal. 13. meth cap. 6 Lib. 4. cap. 17. Gal. 2. ad Glan cap. 7. lib. 5. suplic cap. 8. aphor 22. lib. 1 Pau. lib. 6. cap. 34. Gal. 13. metho cap. 5. Gal. aphor 27. lib. 6. Celsus lib. 7. cap. 2. Lib. 1. cap. 26 Definition Celsus lib. 5. Cause Paul lib. 4. ca. 23. Hip. lib. de humidorum vsu Cure Lib. tumo cōtra naturam Definition Gal. tougastius Cause Signes Cel. lib. 5. ca. 8. Iudgement Cure Paulus lib. 4. cap. 25. Galen lib. 5. meth cap. 10. Hipp. Gal. 13. metho cap. 6. holleris lib. 1. de materia chirurgica Gal. Guido Rog●nt theodericu● Definition Gal. 2. de locis affectis et 2. ad Glanc cap. 10. com in aphor 50. lib. 7. Cause Gal. 2. ad Glan Signes Iudgementes Paul lib. 4. Celsus Cure Gal. 2. ad Glanc cap. 9. Arnoldus de villa noua Paul lib. 4. cap. 19. Cornelius Celsus Gal. 2. ad Glanc cap. 9. Definition Albacrasis lib. 2. cap 87. Cause Signes Iudgementes Celsus lib. 5. Cure Celsus lib. 5. cap. de sphaselo Lib. de hemen Gal. 2. ad Glanc The way to knit veines Secōd dressing Clowes Definition Haly abbas lib 8. Gal. 14. metho cap. 2. lib. 2. ad glanc cap. 1. Lib. cap. cita to Arnold de villa noua Gal. 2. ad glanc Cause Signes Iugdmentes Hip. 25. aphor Cure Paul lib. 4. cap 21. Cel. lib. 5. cap. 26. Gal. 14. meth cap. 3. Definition Gal. li. ad Glāc cap. 1. Difference Gal. com aph 45. lib. 6. Hipp. lib. 22. predict et 6. aphor et Gal. lib. contra naturam Hip. lib. 3. epidemiorum Gal. Cause Signes Cure Gal. 2. ad Glan et lib. 14. meth cap. 17. Oricasius lib. 7 synopseos cap. 34. Hipp. lib. de vlceis Rogerius tract secundo Definition Cal. 2. ad Glanc cap 3. Com. aphor 2 sectione 1. et lib. 6. epid et aphor 12. secti eius lib. et lib. de officinae medici Cal. 2. ad Glanc cap. 3. et aphor 21. lib. 4. de curatione victu in morbis acutis Cause Lib. 14. meth cap. 4. Signes Gal. 2. ad Glanc cap. 3. Paul lib. 4. cap. 27. et 14. meth cap. 4. Iudgementes Cure Gal. lib. de attenuatione victus cap. 1. Hipp. 6. epide Gal. 2. de sani●●te tuenda Lib. 4. meth cap 4. Gal. 2. simp Paul lib. 4. cap. 27. Auicen tract 2 cap. 3. Definition Gal. 14. meth cap. 7. Auicen lib. 4. cap. 2. Difference Cause Gal. lib· 3. simtomatū causis 2. ad glanc cap. 6. oribasius lib. 7. sinop ca. cap. 50. Signes Paul lib. 4. ca. 28. Cure Paul lib. 4. ca. 28. Auicen Paul lib. 6. cap. 36. Definition Cause Signes Togalius cap. de ateoremate Petrus Franco de steotemate Cure Paulus lib. 4. Aetius 15. Definition Gal. 2. ad glanc cap. 5. Difference Gal 2. ad glanc cap. 9. Gal lib. tumorum cap. 9. lib. 5. simpl cap 9. Cause Gal. 14. meth cap 3. Gal. 5. simpl ca. 8 lib. de locis aff cap 3. Gal. lib. 3. meth cap. 16. Paul lib. 4. ca. 32. Signes Iudgementes Cure Gal. 2. ad Glanc Gal. 2. ad Glanc Gal. lib. tumorum contra naturam cap. 6. et 4. meth cap 9. et 2. ad Glan cap. 11. Lib. 6. aphor cap. 38. Definition Celsus lib. 5. cap. 28. Auicen tract 2. cap. 15. Guido Difference Paul Aegin cap de carsinomate Lib. 4. cap. 26. Cause Gal. 14. meth Gal. 2. ad Glanc Paul lib. 4. cap 26. Aetius 4. tract lib. 4. cap. 43. Signes Iudgementes Aetius lib. cita Hip. lib. 6. aph 38. Ioh. de Vigo lib. 2. apost Alexander tral cap. de carsinomate Cure Paul lib. 4. cap. 26. Definition Difference Com. aphor 3. lib. 4. de ratione victus Cause Rondoletius Paul lib. 6. cap. 3. Aetius lib. 6. cap. 1. Signes Iudgments Cure Definition Cause Paul lib. 6. cap. 3. Cure Auicen O●basius lib. 7. sinopseos Heurnius lib. 2 praxis medici● Definition Gal. 1. de accid morb Paul lib. 3. cap. 22. Cause Gordon pertic 3. cap. 2. Signes Iudgments Gordon lib. citato Cure Zenopha Iesus lib. de oculis Galen 13. therapeutic Hip. de oculorum morbis Definition Cause Signes Iudgementes Gordon partie 3. Cure Definition Paul lib. 3. Cause Paul lib. 3. cap. 23. Lanfranc tract 3. Alex. tral lib. 1. cap. 34. Signes Iudgementes
Cure Fuchius de medendis morbis Dodoneus Lanfranc 3. tractatu Bacchanellus de consensu medicorum Definition Paul lib. 3. cap. 29. Cause Signes Iudgments Me●nes de compos medicament cap. 3 Auicen 5. tract cap 2. Auicen Rondol et Mesmes Cure Lib. de medendis morbis Halyabbas lib. 9. Gordon partie 3. Gal. lib. 11. de vsu partum Definition Brunus lib. 7. Cause Aetius sermo 8. cap. 45. Signes Iudgments Aetius serm citato Cure Gal. 13. therap Trallianus Rondoletius Pareus cap. de columella Albicrasis lib. 2 Celsus lib. 6. Hipp. progn 3. cap. 9. Definition Cause Fucbius de medendis morbis Signes Iudgementes Cure Andrew Scot. Rondeletius de curandis morbis Definition Paul lib. 3. cap. 24. Difference Aetius serm 8. cap. 47. Cause Signes Paul Aegin lib 3. cap. 27. Iudgementes Cure Hip. 4. de victu in mo●bis acutis Paul lib. alligato De metho curam dor morborum Rondeletius Definition Cause Signes Iudgementes Paul lib. 3. Cure Gol. de comp medicam Paul lib. 3. cap. 26. Definition Paul lib. 3. cap. 26. Cause Paul lib. 3. cap. 26. Cause Signes Cure Aetius serm 8. cap. 37. Definition Gal. 14. methca 11. Cel. lib. 5. ca. 25 Iohan. de vigo cap. de tumoribus pituitosis Cause Theodericus li 11. Gordon pertic 1. Signes Iudgementes Baraia pallia Aetius Leonidas Cure Auicen Rondeletius de curundis morbis Definition Paul lib. 6. Difference Cause Signes Iudgementes Paul cap. de hernia gutturis Rolandus lib. 3 Cure Definition Paul lib. 6. cap. 30. Cause Signes Gal. lib. tumorum cap. 11. Iudgments Paul lib. 6. Andrew Scot. Definition Cause Signes Cure Definition Difference Paul lib. 3. Gordon partic 4. Auicen 13. cap. de pleurit Cause Aetius serm ● cap. 68. Signes Gal. 5. de locis affectis cap. 3. Iudgments Auicen lib. 4. Cure Definition Cause Signes Theodericus lib. 3. Iudgments Cure Celsus lib. 6. cap. 17. Cap. de emin●ntia vmbilici Definition Gal. lib. 2· de facul natura et cap. 6. lib. 5. de locis affectis Difference Theodericus Gal. com 2. aph Called drie hydropsie by Hip. Cause Theodericus partie 6. Signes Gal. de facul na cap. 7. et 5. de locis affectis et lib. 3. cap. 29 Alexander Trallianus Hip. lib. 2. prognost Gordonius pa●● Cure Paul lib. 3. cap. 48. lib. 4. ca. 6. Lib. de abditis morbor causis Lib. 3. haly abbas Guido Definition Celsus lib. 6. Paul Aegin cap. de condil Fernelius lib 5. symp et parti morb Gordon partic 5. Cause Celsus lib. 6. Signes Cure Lib. 7. cap. 28. Definition Symptom morb lib. 5. Cause Signes Iudgementes Hip. 6. epid Cure Finchius lib. 3 de medendis morbis Baptista Mon●anus Poore man● guide Montanus Definition Cause Signes Cure Auicen lib. 3. tract 1. Gal. de vsu part et artis medicae cap. 9. Definition Lamrancus tract 3. Cause Signes Iudgementes Cure Bartapallia Definition Gal. tumor cap 17. Auic 22. ca. 2. A●tius serm 19 cap. 29. Cause Signes Iudgementes Cure Diffinition Baccha lib. 3. Paul cap. de rami●e Fanenrinus de medēdis mor. Pareus lib. 7. Cause Signes Iudgments Cure Celsus Halyabbas Rogerius Theodoricus Albucrasis Brunnus and Rolandus Gordon Paul Leonellus Fauentinus de Vigo Definition Cause Signes Cure Definition Celsus lib. 5. Fuchius lib. 6. Albucra lib. 1. Gal. lib. 3. de symptō causis cap. 2. Aetius serm 19 cap. 22. De Vigo cap. de aquosa ramice Cure Signes Iudgementes Bacchanellus lib. 3. Cure Paul lib. 6. Albucrasis li. ● Definition Cause Signes Iudgments Cure Definition Paul lib. 6. Fauentinus Cause Albucra lib. 3. de Vigo lib. 11. Signes Guido tract 11. Iudgments Cure De Vigo lib. 2 Rolandus Albucrasis de hernia carnosa Arnoldus de villa noua de mala complexione Definition Paulus Bacchanellus Cause Gal. lib. de tumoribus Signes Iudgments Gordon Bacchanellus Cure Definition Rolandus Cause Signes Iudgmentes Cure Definition Gal. lib. 5 ca. tumor 2. ad glan et 3. meth Cause Signes Iudgmentes Gal. 13. meth Cure Difinition Cause Gal. com aph 74. lib. 4. Paul lib. 3. cap. 78 Signes Iudgments Cure Auïcen Henri Definition Paul lib. 6. Cause Signes Iudgments Gordō partic ● Cure Rolandus Paul lib. 6. cap Definition Aetius cap. vltimo Paul Aegin Auic lib. 4. cap 21. Cause Monard lib. 7. Signes Cure Definition Gordon part ● Cause Signes Iudgementes Cure Definition Cause Signes Iudgementes Cure Petrus Bayrus in sua practa Definition Difference Cause Signes Cure Petrus bayrus Definition ●al 3 method cap. 1. Celsus lib 5. cap. 26. Celsus ibidem Signes Celsus ibidem Gal. de causis morborum cap vltimo Hip. lib. 6. apho 18. Paracelsus in magna Chiru●gia Hip. lib 5. apho Braines Hart. Lightes Diaphragm Lyuer Lib. 6. cap. 88. Milt Kidneis Orifice of the stomack Spinall medull Bladder Matrix Intestines Iudgementes Hip. lib. 5. apho 65. Hip. de vulneribus capitis Cure Hip. aph et 20. lib 5. Ce. lib. 5. ca. 25 Auicen Gal. lib. 4. met lib. de curatione per sanguinis misson cap. 7. 8. Hip. lib. de vloeribus Cel. lib. 7. ca. 3. Cel. lib. 7. ca. 3. Albucr lib. 2. cap. 94. Hip. Paul lib. 6. cap. 88. Cels lib. 5. cap. 26. et Paul lib. citato Hip. Paul lib. 6 cap. 88. Gal lib 4 3. m●●ho et artis medicae●ca 90. Suture Gal. lib 3 m●tho cap. vlt. cap. 4. comm apho 9. Cel. lib. 7. cap. 2● Suture incarnatiue Auic tract 1. cap 8. Second sutor generall Third sutor generall Gal. 6. metho cap. 4. Albucr lib. 2. cap. 85. Cel. li. 7. ca. 16. Ligator which is the second help in conioyning of woundes Celsus lib. 5. cap. 26. Four points in correcting accidents of woundes Aposteme Hemeragie Gal. 3. de cri●bus Putrifaction Symptomes accidentall Euil complexiō Feuer Dolor Lib. 5. method et lib. 3. cap. 4. Spasm● Hip. aphor lib. 5. et 6. apho 39 et Gal. lib. de symptō causis Gal. 3 techni● Gal. 6. meth Galen com aph 17. lib. 5. Paralisie Galen 3. de locis affectis cap. 10. Gal. 3. de locis affectis Sincope Gal. 12. metho ca. 5. Ga. 10. ingenio sanit●tis cap. 5. Gal 12 metho ca. 4. Alienation Gal. 9. metho cap. 10. Gal. 3. thera Pu● Thing obserued in curing woundes Plumations Gal. com apho 3● et lib. 2. de off●● medici Cel. lib. 7. cap. 28. Holleris lib. 3. cap. 4. De materia chirurgica Tentes Celsus lib. 5. Consolidation Cure Gal· 3· et 4. me●tho cap. 10. Hip lib de vulneri et Celsus lib. 5. cap. 26. Gal· 3. therape● et 3. met ca. 10 Gal. 4. methho cap. 4. Gordonin● Holler de matern chirurgie Gal. li. 3. meth Brunus Guido Definition Cure Gal. lib. 4. metho et artis par●e cap. 92. Gal. lib 2. cap. 1 de eompos pharmac Gal. meth ca. 3 Gal· 3· meth ca. 5. Lib. 2. de materia chirurgica cap. 4. Definition 4.
theurapeuticorum Gal. li. 4 meth cap vlt. Signes Iudgementes Cure Hip. lib. de vlceribus et vulneribus capitis Celsus lib. 5 cap. 19. Celsus Paulus Gal. de comp medicament Aetius lib. 5. Lib. 7. cap. 5. Cure Gal. therapen Hip. lib. 5. aph 17. Hip lib. 5. apho 17. 3 Intention Hip. lib. de vlce section 7. 4 Intention 5 Intention Gal. 5. metho ca. 2 et 12. metho cap. 7. Signes Gal. 5. met ca 7 Iudgementes Hip. aphoris 3. lib. 5. et lib. 7. Cure Gui. tract 3. ca Gal. lib. 5. metho cap. 2. Hip. aph 20. lib. 5. Ga. 5. met ca. 4 Auic tract 2. cap. 18. Albuc●asis Matheolus Causes Signes Gal. metho 6. cap. 4. Iudgementes Gal. 6. ther●pu Cure Paulus lib. 4. cap. 54. Gal. meth 6. Gal. cap. 6. de comp medic Aetius lib. 4. cap. 27. Mesues Gal. 6. meth Hippocrates lib. 5. apho 18 Gal 6. meth cap. 4. Gal ibidem Celsus Paul lib. 5. cap. 27. Signes Iudgments Lib. 5. cap. 26. Cure Paul lib. ● ca. ● Gal. 13. meth cap 6. D●osc lib 8 cap. 14. Definition Iudgemente● Lib. 9. suae medicinae Cure Definition Cause Iudgments Signes Cur● Hip lib. de vulneribus capitis Eiue kindes 〈◊〉 factures Astonishment ●●pid emiorum Hip. lib. de vulner cap. 2. H●p de locis in homine Lib. de locis in homine Hip. Cel. Auic Hip. de frac● capitis Definition Cause Signes Cure Com. 7. apho Cure Definition Gal. de causis mo●bor ca. 10. et cap 4. meth Signes Ga● com 3 aph et li 1 de officina medici et 3 de loc●s affectis Gal. lib. de ●●moribus contra natura●● Iudgme●●s Lib. 45. apho Lib. apho 4. Lib. 1. prog● Lib. apho 65. Cure Celsus lib. 7. cap. 3.4 meth cap. 5. et 2. Alex. apho pro. 199. lib 1. et com in apho 8 lib. 6. Lib. 6. cap. 82. Galen 4. meth cap. 1. Gal. 4. meth cap. 1. 4. meth Gal. 4 meth●● cap. 2. Aetius Ga. 5. me ca. 17 et 3. met ca. 3. Paul lib. 4. cap 45. Definition Causes Cure Gal. li 5. meth cap. 10. Diffinition Cause Gal. ad glanc ca· 8. et lib. tumorū cōtra naturam Cure Gal. 3. me ca. 8. et 9. et lib. 4. ca 7 et 2 ad glan cap. 8. Lib. 3. met ca. 3 Definition Fuchius lib· 8. cap. 12. Causes Cure Gal. 3. me●h cap. 6. et 7. Haly abbas Lib. 7. apho ● Definition Cause Signes Cure Gal. 4. meth cap 5. Hip. lib. de vlc Celsus lib. 5. cap. 26. Hip. lib. de vlceribus Gal. 4. meth cap. 2. Definition HiP. lib. 6. aphor 45. Celsus lib. 8. cap. 2. Cure C●lsus lib. 8. cap. 2. Definition Paul lib. 3. cap. 67. Cause Signes Aetius lib. 4. ca 43. Guilliel de sali ceto Cure Gal. 2 ad glane cap. 10. Hip. 6. apho 1. Gal. 14. metho cap. 10. Gal. Paul Cels Actius Gal lib. tumor cōtra naturam Definition Lib. 4. lib. 49. et lib. 7. cap. 77 Cel. lib. 7. ca. 4 Cause Guliel de saliceto Signes Aet●us lib. 6. Gal lib. contra naturam Iudgementes Panlus Arnold de villa noua Difference Celsus lib. 5 ca. 28. Cure Paul lib. 9. cap. 77. et hipp lib. de locis in homine fistule in the fundament Cure Albucrafis Pareus Guid. Hipp. Celsus Paulus Definition ●ure Paul lib. 6. cap. ●9 Galen com 1 aph et lib. 1. de fracturis Gal. lib 6. meth cap 5. et Celsus lib. 8. cap. 7. Hip. 6. cap. 5. Difference Cause Gal. de fracturis Haly Abbas serm 8. com 9. aphorism Signes Celsus lib. 8. cap. 10. Auicen tract 2. cap. 1. Gal. 6. meth c. 5 Cure Celsus lib. 8. ca 10 Hip. de vulneribus cap. Hip. ibedem Hip. aph 6. et ● et lib. 2. de fractur Arhors 6 5. Celsus lib. 8. ca. 7. Auic tract 2. cap 9. Paul lib. 4. et 6 cap. 110. Com. aph 42. et lib. 1. de fractur Gal. 6. meth ca cap. 5. Soranus Hip. li de fracturis com aph 12. et lib. 1. de articules et 6. meth cap. 5. Cel. li. 8. ca. 10. Hip. aph 21. et lib. 1. de fractu Aph. 26. et lib. 2. de officina medici et lib. 1 de fractrris Aph. 12. et 37 ●ib 3. de offic medici Com. aph 13. et lib. 1. de frac Cel lib 8. cap. 10. Com. ca. 13. Gal. 5. de offic medici et Celsus lib. citato Hip. aPh. 19. et 26. lib 2. de ofic medici et com apho 21 ec lib. 1. fracturis Aph. 41. lib. 1 de fracturis Hip. lib. 1. de fracturis Aph 1. et 2. etli 3. de officina medici Lib 8. cap. 10. et Hip. lib. 1 de fracturis Lib. 6. met ca. 5. Aph. 39. et l●b 1. de fract et apho 4. ibidē Hip aph 45 et 46. et lib. 1. de fracturis Paul lib. 9. cap 110. Lib. 6. meth cap. 5. Cel. lib. 8. ca 10 Brunus Albuc Lib de os●ibus Paul lib. 6. c. 3. Celsus lib. 8. cap. 20. Gal. com aph 2. et lib. 1. de articulis Gal. de causis morborum ca. 2. artis paruae cap. 58. com apho 26. et lib. 1. de articulis Celsus lib. 8. cap. 11. com apho 1. lib. 11. de officin medici Paulus lib. 6. Celsus Cure Celsus lib. 8. cap. 2. Albucrasis To. Guido 2. doct cap. 1. Hip. apho 65. lib. 4. de artic Hip. lib. citato Celsus lib. 8. cap. 2. Hippocrrates Heliogabilus ● serm parti●● Age. Rasu● Strength Hip. li 1. apho Lib. 2 Habitude Gal le sangui missione Countrie Lanf●an Gal. li. de arthritide Time Hip. 7. apho Oribasi arnold Gal. de curandi ratione per sanguine m●ssion cap. 21. Vse custome Signes afore bleeding Lanfrancus Albucrasis Lib. de aere et aqua Auice● Haly Abbas H●ly Abbas Albucrasis li. 4 Rafis Oribafius Auicen Haly Abbas Gal. Ra●●s Lib. 28 Lib. de sanguinis miss Gal. de secti Lib. 9. Rasis ●asis ●●tapallia Aetius lib. 3. Haly Abbas lib. 1. Guliel de salu●to Gal. Auic Auerois Arist lib. 2. de partis anmal cap. 4. Gal. lib. de atra bile et de simp med Caelicis Gal lib. 1. chro Paul lib. 6. Albucrasis 15. therapeutic Bartapallia Cuido Auicen 3. canod Haly Abbas lib. 9. Gal. Auicen Albucrafis Haly Abbas Galen Albucrafis li. 2. Arnoldus de villa noua Haly Abbas Auicen Theodocritus Albucrasis lib. 11. 4. apho cem 1.2.3 et 12. Albuc lib. 5. Skinkins Guido Hip. Albuc Albuc Cel. Hip Albucra●●s Le fort de Lenry S. Pineo H. Delanow Celsus lib. 4. cap. 22. Natural bathes Salt c. Alluminou● Sulphuro●● Ironand steele Copp●rous Golde Leade Artificiall bathes Gal. de sauitate ●uenda lib. 3. Hip. Celsus F●chius Hierodotus lib de temediis foris abhibendis Antillus Hip. apho 54. Hypp Hierodotus Paulu Oribasins Hippocrates Gal. lib 2. de locis effect Gal. 12. metho Gal. lib. 5. ca. 1● simpl Gal. lib. 3. de facul simpl cap. 18. Gal. lib. 13. met Ga● lib. 5. cap. 18. simpl Nicol. Alexan. Gal. 5. simpl Gal. 5. simpl Gal. 13. metho lib. 5 simpl cap. 1. Hipp. 6 epidimiorum Gal. lib. 5. 〈◊〉 lib. 2. Gal. 3. method et 2. de compositione pharmacorum Gal. de simpl Gal. 5. simpl Heere Hippocrates sheweth that the place of blessed is eternall and the paine of the wicked infinite
as the presidents the which ingēdreth not only the maladie but also entertaine such as the humors naturalls offēding in quantitie or qualitie also the intempetature feeblenes and euill confirmation dolor of the partes CO. Which are the coniunct causes LO The coniunct is the matter gathered together in the place is so called because it is with the sicknesses and norisheth it with the dispositiō of the member CO. Which are the generall signes of aposthumes LO Tumor or swelling in any part otherwise than the naturall disposition offending the action also difference of the partes which should be like to other dolor and heate CO. By what signes know you euery kinde of tumur LO Either by the colour intemperature hot cold hardnes or softnes dolor tension mordica●ion as also by contimation of the fluxion for first the colour is like the humor as if it bee red it is of the sanguine humor if white of pituite if black of the humor melancholicke if yellow of choll●r Further if there be heate it signifieth either sanguine or choller or some burnt 〈◊〉 or if cold waterie or windy it signifieth the humor pituit●ous or melācholick Hardnes with-dolor signifieth phleg●ō if without dolor●schir If softnes without dolor it signifieth Edema tensiō betokeneth great repletion of winde if mordication it signifieth the acrimonie of the humor that maketh the tumor CO. Howe many sortes of aposthumes are there LO Two hot and cold CO. Which are the hot LO Those which proceede of blood and choller CO. Which are the colde LO Those which come of phlegme or melancholie CO. Which are those that proceede of blood LO phlegmon Carbunculus Phimus Phigetlon T●rminthon Fermiculus Gangrena Authrax Tuberculus Opthalmia Schinancia Bubo CO. Which are those that come of choller LO Eresipelas Herpes Formica and Empetigo CO. Which are those which proceede of the petuite LO Oedema all windie aposthumes Atheor●ma Steotema and Mellericeris As●ites Lenchophlegmatia bronco caele CO. Which are those that come of melancholye LO Schirrus Cancer Leprosie Dracunculus Wartes Clauus Thimus Morphea nigra alba of all which we will hereafter intreate perticulerly in seuerall Chapters at this present it shall suffice to knowe that they proceede of the foure humors CO. What iudgement giue you of tumors LO I giue some to be cureable some dangerous some dolorous some long in healing and some to be mortall CO. Which are cureable LO Those which are in the partes musculous and bodies of good temperature CO. Which are the dangerous LO All those which doe penetrate internallye in the bodie and those which are very large not pointed as sayth Hipocrates and and those which are in parts verie sensible CO. Which are the dolorous LO Those which are in the parts neruous and membranous and are ingendred of a sharp and byting humor CO. Which are long in healing LO Galen sayth that those which happen in rich and delicate persons because they refuse fit remedies for the curation of such tumors also all that are harde and in euill disp●sed bodie● and hydropicks Elephanticks all such as are long in healing CO. Which are mortall LO Those which are venemous or taken the course inwardly towards the noble partes or those which are in the noble partes How many times or degrees haue the aposthumes LO Foure to wit the beginning augmenting state or vigor and declination CO. What is the beginning LO It is whē the tumor doth first appeare and beginneth to swell CO. What is the augmentation LO It is when the tumor groweth more and more as also the accidents CO. What is the state or vigor LO It is when neyther the tumor nor accidents grow but remaine in one estate CO. What is the declination LO It is when wee perceiue the tumor and also the accidents to disminish with a dissipation of the humor eyther by resolution or supuration CO. What is resolution LO It is the euacuation of the humor by the pores of the flesh insensible to vs. CO. What is suppuration LO It is a vertue which maketh the humor gathered in the place into matter so all aposthumes do eyther end by one of these two determinations or else by induration or corruption so in all there are but foure termination the best is resolutiō in the beginning the worst corruption but supputation is better than induratiō CO. Which are the signes of these terminations LO The signes of resolution are lightnes or ease of the member tumified diminution of dolor pulsation and tension with itching in the parte The signes of ●upputation are dolor pulsation augmentation of heate and feuer with eminent tumor The signes of induration are diminution of tumor and the accidents precedent with a manifest hardnes The signs of corruptiō are diminutiō of feling of the dolor with change of the coulor and so becommeth by little little black and euill sauoured CO. What is the generall cure of aposthumes LO Ar for the cure we must vnderstan'd that eyther the tumor or swelling is in making or is alreadie made for the which cause we haue two intentions the one to stay the fluxion of the humor to the place the other euacuate the humor gathered in the place CO. How stayest thou the fluxion LO First I consider if it come of plenitude of all the body thē I stay it by letting blod if the region aire time of the yeare strength of the patiēt do permit after the forme ye shall heare in the 7. treatise also by bathing exercise vnctions degerants and abstinence In like maner if cacochymie or plenitude of humors I heale it by vomiting purgations and Clisters If through imbecillitie of the part I fortifie it by meete remedies if by the situatiō which is lower I situate the part in such fashion that rhe parte offended is higher than the whole If dolor be the cause I stay it by vsing anodine remedies as ye shall heare in the sixt treatise If great heate I stay it by cold things I stay and deturne the fluxion by scarifications ventousing cornets horshleaches straight binding frictions such like CO. By how many waies do you fortifie the part LO By three waies that is by colde and humide things or cold drie or cold and stiptick so any part may be delibated three wais that which is relaxed with heate humiditie must bee cōforted with cold drie things the hot drie is healed by cold humide things If 〈◊〉 and opennes of the pores it is cured by things cold and stiptick CO. Which is the se●ond intentiō LO It doth consist in euacuating that humor which is made to the end the member may returne into his owne estate CO. How is euacuation done LO Two waies first by dryuing the humor to some other part as to repell it inwardly also in fortifiing the member CO. When shall repecussiues be vsed LO In the
roses and mirtl●es a little myrhe and aristolochia washing often the sore with oximell If neede require to vse more strong remedies take egipciac and mixe therewith a little arsenic or orpiment and put in the scarrifications which remedies must bee vsed with good iudgement noting where the gangren ceaseth The furie of the maladie being past cause the scarre to fall with honey butter and yolkes of egges If none of these preuaile but that the gangren becometh in sphasell we must vse the like cure as in sphasell for the safetie of the rest of the bodie The sixt Chapter of Sphasell VVEE must heere consider the differences betweene Gangren Sphasell for Gangren is the Latin word and is a mortification of all the partes where it hapneth sauing the bones and is cureable but Sphasell or ●●deration is a mortification both of soft and solide partes and is no wayes remedied but by amputation it is called the fire of S. Anthonie or S. Martiall The cause is as you haue heard in Gangren ioyned with an euill disposition of the bodie and an humor venemous which commonly corrupteth the bone afore it make any externall showe sometime it proceedeth of olde vlcers that haue bene long orpressed with rotten matter and so corrupteth the bone causeth mortification also biting of vipers mad dogges The signes are these the member waxeth blacke as it were burnt afterwardes rotten which in shorte time ouercommeth the whole bodie the skinne doth come frō the fleshe The Iudgementes are that it is for the most part incureable and the patient dieth in a colde sweat The cure in so much as may be consisteth onely in amputation of the member which shall bee done in this manner for the friendes must first be aduertised of the danger because often death ensueth as you haue heard either for apprehension weakensse or fluxe of bloud For this cause the learned Celsus calleth it a miserable remedie yet we vse it by reason in so doing there is some hope and in not vsing of it there is none but sodaine death for better it is to loose one member then the whole bodie After this wee must apply on the place of amputation for there is diuersitie of opinions Hippocrates and some others counsell to cutte in the ioynte for it is more easie to be done and also the marrow is not discouered as in other partes and the fluxe of bloud is not so great Others thinke it best to cut foure inches from the ioynt either aboue or vnder according to the putrifaction which is both more easie and sure then in the ioynt For these and sundry other circumstances I aduise to cut foure inches from the ioynt in all amputacions sauing onely if the mortification or riuing of the bone end in the ioynt thē it may be cut in the ioynt chiefly in the knees but wheresoeuer you make your amputacion remember to cut rather a little of the whole then to leaue any of the infected for if any remaine it infecteth the rest and so requireth newe amputacion The place of amputacion noted we situate the sicke after a fitte māner hauing respect both to the nature and qualitie of the parte and to our owne commoditie then you shall haue two men to holde the patient next the Chirurgian shall commaund the sicke to bend and put out the member to the ende the skin veines arters may be the more lengthened that after the amputacion they be more apparent so be knitte or canterized That being done the Chirurgian shall pull vp the skin muscles as much as he can afterwardes he shall take a strong ribband and bind the member fast aboue the place two inches where the amputacion shall be The vse of this ribband is diuers first it holdeth the member hard that the instrumēt may cutte more surely secondly that the feeling of the whole part is stupified rendred insensible thirdly the fluxe of bloud is stayed by it fourthly it holdeth vp the skin and muscles which couer the bone after it is loosed and so maketh it more easie to heale The bandage thus made we cut the fleshe with a rasor or knife that is somewhat crooked like a hooke the flesh being cut to the bone it must be scraped with the backe of the saide knife made purposely for that effect to the ende the periost that couereth the bone be not painefull in cutting the bone otherwise it teareth with the sawe and causeth great dolor and also letteth the cutting This done sawe the bone being cut we loose the ligature and draw downe the skin to couer the bone in all parts If there be great putrifactiō let it bleede a little for that dischargeth the part so is lesse subiect to inflamation then we put the extremities of the fingers on the orifices of the great veines and arters to stay them from bleeding till we either knit or canterize them one after another as shall be thought expedient Where there is putrifaction we stay the fluxe of bloud by canters actuall where there is no putrifaction nor malignitie of humor we vse the ligature The canter or actuall fire maketh a scale stayeth the bleeding draweth to it consumeth the malignitie virulencie of the humor which is in the part so in that point is better then knitting by reason that in knitting we loose much bloud and by drawing the veines b●●ick decourbing or other instrument they doe breake also being knit doe often vnloose so I find the fire more expedient being done in this ma●ner We must haue three or foure little instrumentes of iron crooked at the ende the point in forme of a button made red hot which wee take and apply on the veines one after another holding them a certaine space till the scale be made yet not burning much of the veine In amputacion without putrifaction I find the ligature more expedient being done thus first thou shalt holde thy fingers on the veines and in the other let one loose and take hold of it with thy beck de corbing or other meet instrument taking a little flesh with it then put through a needle with a strōg threed knit with a double knot tying a little of the flesh with the veine which will make it hold the better but if this slip as oft it happeneth yee shall doe in this manner first in putting through the needle begin in the vtter skin● an ynch aboue the wound by the side of the veine cause it come out a crosse in the wounde by the side of the veine yet lower down than the orifice thereof then put through your needle in the other side of the veine through the wounde cause it come out of the wound on the skin an inch broade from the place it went in then knit it hard putting a little peece of cloth doubled betwixt the two threads to the end the knot enter not
album cum camphora also the cataplasme of Barley flower Lyn-seede sodden in Hydromell or oxycrate putting to it a little pouder of Camomill and oyle of Roses remember that all these remedies must bee liquide often remoued and the place well cleansed that no thing remaine on it If it come to a bile or vlcer cure it as Herpes The eight Chapter of Herpes HErpes is a little vlcer accompanied with tumor which proceedeth of the pure bilious humor without mixture of any other humors It occupieth most commonly the extremities and outward partes of the skinne and is comprehended vnder erisipelas like as formica and impetigo which are called commonly chollericke pustulles There are three kindes of it the first is made of the thinne cholar which burneth onely the skinne and is called simply Herpes the second is made of a more thicke choler which vlcereth a great part of the skinne and is called Herpes depascens by reason that it eateth and consumeth the skinne the third kinde is made of choller and pituite together accompanied with some malignitie as commonly happeneth to those who are infected with the neapolitane disease and is called by our auncientes Herpes miliaris because the pustull is little like the graine called milium The pustulles haue diuers denominations some call them papula or eruptions pituiteous others call them ecthim●ta others call them apenthemata The cause signes differ not from those which ye haue heard in the precedent Chapter As for the cure it consisteth in three partes first in staying the fluxion by euacuation vniuersall and prouocation of vrine and good dyet as ye haue heard in erisipelas secondly in euacuating that which is in the place by such thinges as haue the vertue to discusse digerre and drie lightly and not humect as in eris●pelas Then in the beginning we shall vse vine leaues plantaine gooseberrie leaues arnoglosse putting thereto a litle barley flowre with some honie Furthermore the barke of the pomegarnet dissolued in wine with a little fine flowre made in forme of a cataplasme is good The third intention is in drying vp of the vlcer by reason that all vlcers whatsoeuer require de●●cation by gentle medicaments excepting alwayes the maligne vlcers and in them we vse more shrong and mordicant remedies first we shall vse fomentations of roses and plantaine sodden in wine or water and an vnguent made of oyle of walnuttes and waxe thereafter washed in smithes water also the vnguent cerusse or this vnguent thus made Rec. vnguent populeonis cerat refrigentis Galeni cerussae an dram one dim litargyri 3. ounces olei rosacei 1. ounce malaxentur omnia simul et fiat vnguentum The other pustulles like as formica and impetigo be cured commonly by generall euacuations other defedations of the skinne which proceede of the humor melancholicke or chollericke are cured by vniuersall euacuations by sweating and bathing and by applying some vnguent on the part affected as vnguent enulat putting thereto sometime a little mercurie This vnguent is most excellent for this purpose as also for the itch which happeneth to young children Take elle campagne rootes and seethe them in the iuice of plantaine fumitorie yolkes of egges hogges grease or fresh butter being all mingled together put thereto a little brimstone well puluerized with oyle of hypericon so make an vnguent of good consistance The ninth Chapter of tumors which proceede of the pituite and first of Edema HAuing amply spoken of the two hot tumors as also of those which doc commonly come of them nowe in like manner we shall shew of the two colde humors the one ingendred of melancholie the other of phlegme or pituite Edema is a soft tumor without dolor white coloured Of it there are two sortes like as of phlegmon the one is the true naturall Edema ingendred of the pure phlegmaticke humor the other is bredde of the phlegme mixed with the other three humors taketh diuers names according to the principall humor as ye haue heard And like as there are two sortes of it so it may bee named two wayes to witte either maladie or symptome of maladie as happeneth in the feete of those which are hydropicke and haue bene long sicke which are accidents of these maladies and require no particular curation sauing onely rubbing of the part with oyle salt or water and salt or oxycrat in wetting a cloth therein laying on it The cause is a phlegmaticke vaporious fluxion of humors pituitous and flatuous in any part of the body as also imbecillitie of the part which can neither digest nor expell that which is contrarie also great idlenesse The tokens are these the tumor is soft colde in pressing on it with the fingers there remaineth a hole and riseth not againe it is cleare and not dolorous and happeneth oftenest in the weakest parts as in the ioynts and glandulles and in the extremities as in the face and feete in colde weather and in olde folkes or after maladies in people that are full of humors and make no exercise This tumor turneth seldome to matter except in hot places by reason the matter is cold it endeth often by resolution sometime it turneth to schirre or nodosities or some other kinde of cold abscesse and that by the great vsage of digestiues which make the matter waxe hard In the cure there are two pointes to be obserued first to diuert the fluxion by remedies that haue the vertue to cleanse the pituite humor as Diaphenicon Catholicon Diacartami agaric such like for the administration of the which you shall vse the counsell of rhe learned Physition also in dyet in the sixe vnnaturall thinges tending to heate and drought eate rosted meates rather then sodden but in little quantitie abstayne from all thinges that breede phlegme as fruites potages cheese fish hearbes water sadnesse and much sleepe drinke wine with little water and vse bread that is well baked vse things to corroborate the principall partes Abstaine from women espeacially if the sicke be weake yet wee finde the vsage of women to be good in maladies pituitous for that heateth and drieth vse sildome bleeding in this disease The second intention consisteth in taking away that which is in the place which is in the place which shall bee done according to the times and degrees of the tumor first we shall vse medicines repercussiues and discutients which shal be meane and not strong Galen doth much commend oxicrate in this case by reason the vineger repelleth by the colde vertue and resolueth by the drie vertue if it he not sufficient mixe with a fewe ashes of the oake tree sal nitre or quicke lyme also the emplaister di vigo or a fomentation of camomille melilot rosemary sage wormewood Origan hyssope redde roses of each one handfull one ounce and halfe an
to the partes as if it come in the face it is called noli me tangere if in the thighes or legges it is called lupus if in any other part it is called cancer The cure of this shal bee in the beginning to stay the melancholidke humor frō setling in the place and growing which must be done by fitte remedies to purge the melancholicke humor and by bleeding if the age and time permit then abstayne from all meates that ingender this humor and heate the bloud such as olde haires salt flesh harts goats spices mustard pottage cheese fishe and such like walke not much abstaine from great trauell sadnesse and anger vse meates that breede good bloud as mutton veale kiddes capons all sortes of fowles sauing water fowles drinke whay corroborate the liuer and milte As for locall remedies first if it waxe great and in fitte places some counsell to cut it in such sort that there remaine no roote but my opinion is not to doe such thinges but rather followe the counsell of Paul which is to take the iuice of morrell plantaine lettice and sorrell centorie shepheardes purse wette a cloth in these iuices and lay on it Also I haue often vsed the vrine of a young maid in the same fashion and oyle of roses veri●ce litage cerusse burnt leade diapalma of these ye may make fit remedies to keepe it in one estate correct gently the acrimonie of the humor If these things let not the augmentation of it we must goe to the cure of cankred vlcers in the treatise of vlcers and thus we ende the Treatise of tumors in generall THE FIFT TREATISE of Tumors in particular HAuing discoursed in the former Treatise of the causes signes and cure of Tumors most generall nowe in like māner we shal intreat of the Particular which happen in the most partes of our bodie beginning at the head which is the seat of reason memorie vnderstanding is subiect to many sorts of tumors whereof we will shew at length in this Treatise but specially of those which oftnest do happen beginning first with Hydrocephalie Physocephalie which occupieth the whole head thereafter with those Tumors which occupie certaine partes thereof as the eyes eares mouth nose and cheekes and so descend to other partes of the bodie in like māner to the feet extremities of the hands as ye shall heare which contayneth thirtie eight Chapters Chapter 1 Of Hydrocephalie and Physocephalie Chapter 2 Of the Tumor called Nodus or Ganglion Chapter 3 Of the Tumor in the eye called Lippitudo Chapter 4 Of the tumor in the eares Chapter 5 Of the Tumor called Parotidis Chapter 6 Of Tumors in the nose called Ozena Sac●oma Polypus Chapter 7 Of the Tumor in the mouth called Vula or Columella Chapter 8 Of the Tumors in the amigdalles called Tonsillae Chapter 9 Of the Tumor called Angina or Strangulatio Chapter 10 Of the Tumors in the teeth called Epulides Chapter 11 Of the Tumor vnder the toungue called Batrachos Chapter 12 Of the tumors in the necke called Struma Chapter 13 Of the Tumor in the throat called Bruncoseli Chapter 14 Of the tumor called Ane●●risma Chapter 15 Of the tumor in the Pappes Chapter 16 Of Pluresie Chapter 17 Of the tumor in thae Nauell called axunfalon Chapter 18 Of the tumor in the bellie called Hydropsie Chapter 19 Of the tumor in the fūdamēt called cōdiloma Chapter 20 Of the swelling of the veines in fundamēt called Hemorrhoides Chapter 21 Of the tumor in the intestinie called Exitus Longanonis Chapter 22 Of the tumor in the Coddes Chapter 23 Of Hernes in generall Chapter 24 Of the tumor inguinall called bubono●●el● Chapter 25 Of the herne called ●nterocele Chapter 36 Of the herne called Epipocele or Zeirbale Chapter 27 Of the herne called Hydrocele Chapter 28 Of the herne called Ventosa Chapter 29 Of the herne called Sarcoceli Chapter 30 Of the herne varicus called Cirsocele Chapter 31 Of the herne Humerall Chapter 32 Of the tumor in the Flancke called bubonecele Chapter 33 Of the tumor in the knees Chapter 34 Of the tumor in the legges called varicus Chapter 35 Of the tumor in the legges called dra●●culus Chapter 36 Of the tumor tn the legges or handes called Elephansiasis particularis Chapter 37 Of the tumor in the fingers called panaris or paren●chia Chapter 38 Of the tumor or hardues in the toes called Cornes The first Chapter of Hydrocephalie and physocephalie HYdrocephalie is a waterie humor which occupyeth the whole head and Physocephalie is a windie humor which doth the like these tumors are contained eythet betweene the pericrane and skin or betwixt the muscles or betwixt the pericran and crane or betwixt the crane mēbranes which couer the braines called dura mater pia mater but the tumor in this case is not great The cause is eyther internall or externall the internall commeth from the matrix and of the Mothers milke which is too waterie and such like foode as breede waterie humors The externall cause commeth of cold presently after the birth it hapeneth also through vnskilfulnes of Midwife as I haue sometimes seene which draweth presseth the childs head so much at the deliuerie that the veines and arters breake not being as yet strong so the blood sheddeth through the rest of the head and degendreth into water The signes are great tumor with deformitie of the head the eies face swelled as doth appeare in the Hydropicks The iudgementes are these such as are within the crane are incurable those that are betwixt the crane and pericrane or betwixt the pericrane and muscles may be cured As for the curation of the curable they are healed partly by diet and by vsing of things drying and abstayning from things humide also by externall remedies applied to the part that drie with some astriction and comfort the head which shal be done by liniments fomentations vnguentes made of calamint origan betonie camomill me●●ot anthos red roses also ye may make lessiues of the vine ashes also shaue the head and applie this emplaster following Rec olibani vnc 1. sarcacoll● drag 1. gummi arabici seminis raphani anethian 1. vnc di ole de spica parum cerae quantum sufficit fiat emplastrum If the humor be in great abundance or that the crane or membraines are offended we must vse incision and perforation of the crane thē eauc●ate the humor heale the woūd as in others There is yet a kinde of this called Macrocephalie which is a supernaturall greatnes of the Pan and flesh not properly tumor and receiueth no curatiō but is si●ldome seene one of this sort I saw in Paris of the quātity of a pot of 3. quarts The second Chapter of the tumors called Nodus or Ganglion which commeth in the head THese tumors are sometime hard otherwhiles soft alwayes round which chanceth for the
defluxion of humors falle●h in the coddes of all which ye shal heare hereaftet in there seuerall Chapters beginning first with B●bonocele The foure and twentith Chapter of the tumor inguinall called Bubonocle BVbonocele is a tumor in the flanck either of the call or intestine which happeneth through dilatation or ruption of the peritone is called b● the latins hernia inguinalis or inconpleta The cause is externall and internall externall in strokes leaping wresting crying vomiting choughing riding on hard trotting horses bearing of gret burthens the violent vsing of womē or any violēt vsing of exercise dilatatiō of the ligamēt in womē through great trauell in childbirth the internall cause are vsing of viscuous flatuous meates great repletion of the bellie and of humors The signes if it come through relaxation it reduceth easily if of the intestine ye shall hea●e a noyse and it is dolorous The iudgments many die of this disease the gutte being forth filleth full eyther of winde or excremēts or both which is so difficill painfull to be reduced that the sick dieth As for the cure vse fomentatiōs remollientes and discutientes made thus R●c radicum altheae brioniae cucumeris ●grestis an M. 1. foliorū maluae bismaluae pari●tariae et violarum an M. 1. florū et foliorum camomillae melitoti rosarum an P. 1. seminis altheae lini et fen●greci an vnc se coquātur omnia in lacte vel aqua et f●menta locum cum spongis If by these remedies it reduce not being great abundance of winde yee shall vse fiue or sixe punctiōs with a needle for the purpose which dissipeth the winde reduceth easily then vse emplasters astringent with a bādage for a certayn space in so doing those which come of releaxatiō sometime heale others which come by ruption doe nor heale so the sicke must haue a trusse for the purpose with an emplaster to let the falling downe againe and no other cure to bee vsed yet there are some ignorāt people who take vpon thē to heale this as also the 2. cōpletes by drinks charmes praying to Saints going on pilgrimage which are al false found on no reason others as Tbeodo●ricus coūsell to cure thē by actual canters Lanfrācus by potētiall Bernardus Rogerius by the wearing of a golden threade called punctus aureus which are all dangerous and vncertaine wayes The fiue twentith chapter of the herne or rupture intestinall called by the Greeks ●nterocele THis kinde of rupture is when the gutts fall downe into the codds eyther through ruption or enlarging of the peritone where the Spermatick vessels doe passe and where the muscles Cremastres end and the membranes Dartons and Heretroides begin wherin the gutt caul● or both do fal The causes are like to Bubonocele the signs are great in equall tumor sometime hard by reason of the fecall matter contained therein The iudgmentes are these there commeteh inflamation and the more ye prease to reduce it the inflamation is the greater so it changeth the coulor which is an euill signe sounding and voyding of matter at the mouth are euill signs if the intes●i●e be not reduced the patient dyeth which happeneth through the narrownes of the dilatation As for the cure first rubb the codde with oyle of camomill and lay the sick on his back in such sort that his arse be higher than his head reducing with thy hand little and little pressing most on the place where it defended If the fecall matter let the reduction vse the remedies set downe in Bubonocele clisters to discharg the intestine if by these remedies the intestine doe not reduce but the matter wax hard with grea● dolor yee shall make incision in the vpper part of the cod eschewing the intestine thereafter put a litle peece of wood vp by the production of the peritone neare the hole of descent the pece of wood must be round on the one side flat on the other wheron ye shall make the rest of your incision and rubbe the descent with a lttle oyle so it shall easily reduce If then it reduce not the peritone must be incised and vse the canter Gastrographick handle it as other wounds this operation must not be vsed but in great necessitie when the sick is strong prognosticating still of the daunger nefefellisse aut ignorasse videaris Being reduced it must with bandages and astringent fomentations bee contayned with rhis ●●plaster Rec. emplastri contra ru●turam vnc 2. mastichae vnc 1. vnguenti comitissae desiccatiui rubei an vnc se lapidis calaminaris in aceto extincti parum or this tak● beane flowre and the barke of the oake tree sanguinis draconis pouder of sage and roses of euery one a little seethe all in smithes water putting thereto a little hogges grease and lay it on the place in forme of an emplaister and keepe the bedde for the space of fortie dayes shifting it once in sixe dayes vsing good dyet and of light digestion abstayning from crying and coughing laying the hinder partes higher then the head through this method some heale chieflly whē the dilation is not great● If the dilation be so great that there is no hope of recouerie by these remedies wee come to the operation of the hande the bodie hauing purged and bledde afore if neede be eating little the night before the incision the sicke shall be layde on a forme or board scituated as yee haue heard his legges and handes bound and so reduce the intestine which being done one shall hold his hande on the hole of descent then the Chirurgion shal take the stone on the sore side making an incision two inches broad at the which drawe out the testicle separate the didyme from the scrotum till ye come to the hole of descent and knitte with a waxed threed and cutte the production with the stone a little from the threede stay the fluxe of bloud and heale it as other woundes If the patient be olde make incision in the lower parte of the scroton to the ende the matter may auoyd the better Sometime the dilation being great the intestine sticketh to the peritone so in knitting the peritone ye knitte the intestine also which if it happen the sicke voydeth the excrementes by the mouth and so dyeth This happened once to my Maister who had vsed this operation a long time whereof I thought good to let you vnderstand if any such cure come in your handes Sometime being healed in the one side it falleth on the other side for the curation whereof doe the like yet it is very incommodious for after the partie is disabled to ingender and the hayre of the beard becommeth thin and falleth for the which cause and diuers I am of the opinion with the learned not to attempt this operation but rather to vse a tru●se so in processe of
time nature ingendreth a certaine peice of flesh in the hole of descent The twentie sixe Chapter of the rupture Zirball called Epip●cele EPipocele is a descent of the caule in the codde or flanck the Cause is not different from the precedent accompanied with aboundance of humidities in these partes the Signes are like the precedent sauing that it is softer and vneasie to reduce not dolorous The Cure must bee like to the intestine in all cutting the production that falleth knitte canterize it to let the fluxe of bloud of the veines and arters whereof commeth great danger if it be reduced and yet bleedeth it causeth fluxe of the bellie and often death The twentie seuen Chapter of the waterie Herne called Hydrocele or Hernia aquosa THE waterie Herne is a Tumor in the coddes which groweth by little and little sometime to great bignesse and is contayned sometime in the codde otherwhiles betwixt the membranes that couer the stones called Dartos and Heretroidos sometime within them sometime it is accompanied with the gu●te and is called Hydrointerocele The Cause is like as yee haue heard in Hydropsie and is a particular Hydropsie sometime stroakes the vesselles being riuen the bloud chaungeth into a waterie humor The Signes are the Tumor is cleare and becommeth long still in one estate not painefull heauie sometime hard and is knowne by holding the codde betwixt thee the candle and beeing inclosed in membranes it appeareth to bee a third testicle The Iudgementes some resolue oftentimes the intestine also falleth chiefely in the left side by reason of the milte which is full of colde melancholicke humor which oftentimes corrupteth the testicle As for the Cure the sicke must be purged with fitte medicines according to the nature of the humor vse meane exercises meates hotte and drie in small quantitie abstayning from drinke and keepe thy bellie loose sleepe little and prouoke vrine by diureticke thinges abstaine from all things which breed winde The particular remedies are in vsing fomentations as in Hydropsie next the astringent emplaister made of redde desi●catiue the vnguent Comitisse with the pouder of lapis calaminaris extinguished in vineger oaker balaust bol armenie allom mustard seede and euphors malax all together with a little oyle of camomil and lay on the sore If these remedies suffice not by reason of the great quantitie of the water we put a Seton through the lowest part ●f the codde and drawe it twise euery day till the humor be euacuated If the humor be in the membranes that couer the stones make incision in the side of the codde eschewing the testicle put a tente in it and dresse it twise a day keepe it open till the humor be euacuated vse remedies anodi●us for to appease the dolor and ●ic catrize it as other woundes The twentie eight Chapter of the Herne windie called Physocele THis Herne is a collection of winde in the Scroton called Hernia ventosa the Cause is imbecillitie of natural heate in these partes and phlegmaticke matter with such other causes as yee haue heard in windie apostumes The Signes are the Tumor is somewhat hard light round sodainely ingendred occupying for the most part the s●roton and wand resisting to the touch cleare as a bladderfull of winde the wande greater in one place then in another The Iudgementes if this vapour dissip not it causeth many euilles sometime occupying the whole bodie and proceedeth often of matter venenous The Cure shall be first in good dyet as in Edema next to applie on the place thinges resolutiue and corroboratiue as yee haue heard in windie apostumes some allowe the plaister of Vigo with mercurie or diapalma malaxed with wine also the dregges of claret wine boiled with bran laid warm on the place The twentie nine Chapter of the Herne carnosa called Sarcocele THis is a Tumor in the cod sometimes in the membrans dartos and heretroidos chiefely about the stones like vnto a tumor schirrous and as it were accompanied with veines varicous The Cause is aboundance of grosse humors in these partes which doth corrupt the testicles and at last degendreth into a harde fleshie disposition The Signes are vnequall tumor hard alwayes in one estate dolorous and being touched all which is in the testicle doth moue The Iudgementes are that when it happeneth to young folke and handled in the beginning it doth some time heale but commonly it is incureable and the worst of all the eight kindes If by feeling it at the vppermost parte of the didim it seeme vnnaturall great the tumor is incureable and better it is not to touch it then to attempt any cure if ye finde the didim small there is some hope of cure For the which we must scituate the sicke as yee haue heard next make the incision in the vpper part of the cod knitte the didim and canterize it as ye haue heard in interocele If it adhere to the codde separate it and cutte off the testicle with the excrescence if after the incision there commeth inflammation and dolor let the patient bleede and rest fiue or sixe dayes as counselleth Franco and leaue the cure to giue order to the accidentes The thrrtie Chapter of the Herne varicous called C●rsocele THis Herne is a Tumor and dilation of the veines that nourish the testicles which are full of melancholicke bloud and also the membranes hereof The Cause is some grosse humor or melancholick bloud gathered in that part by reason of the debilitie and decliuitie of the place and heauinesse of the humor The Signes are the repletion of the veines sometime fewe in number sometime many wrapped together like a vine braunch soft in touch and returning into the bellie by pressing on the didime The iudgmentes are it is without dolor most dangerous and difficill to be cured as ye shall heare in the varices of the legges The cure shal be first in purging the bodie of melancholick then bleede if neede be therefore make incisiō on the scroton the breadth of two fingers in the place of the varice thereafter make passe a needle with double thread vnder the varice and in the vpper part of the woūd an other in the lower part leauing an inch betwixte then open the varice and euacuate the humor contayned if there be any moe doe the like that done knitt the thread and handle the wound as others If the testicle be infiltred with veines accompanied with dolor that it may not bee handled this way the didime must bee cut as in the pre●●dent and so proceede in the cure The one and thirtieth Chapter of the herne Hum●rall THis herne is an aposthume and defluxion of humors together in the codd or membranes that couer the testicles and sometime in their proper
substance The cause is not different from other aposthumes as also the signes The iudgmentes are such as are long in healing the part being cold and membranous somtimes suppureth otherwhiles resolueth if it continue long it corrupteth the testicle The cure the sick shal be purged with clisters bled rest and weare a trusse to holde vp the stones and dressed according to the nature of the humor and accidents after the methode set downe in the generall Chapter of Aposthumes The two and thirtith Chapter of the tumor in the Flanck called Bubo THis word Bubo is taken in place for the part betwixte the thigh the bodie called in latin Ingnen in which there are many glandes which often doe swell tumifie The cause is defluxiō of humors violent exercise crisis of maladies dolor or vlcer in the legge or foote or some other part neare to it The signes are euident The iudgmentes when it happeneth by crisis of maladie it is difficill if no fe●er haue proceeded nor vapor venemous it is easie sometime it doth resolue otherwhiles suppo●eth There are other glādes lower where ordinarily the plague ingendereth The cure differeth not frō other aposthumes which come in partes glandulous where of I haue spoken amply in the Chapter of Scrofulae The three and thirieth Chapter of the tumor in the knees THis tumor commeth by fluxion or congestion of humors in the ioyntes and chiefly in the knees the cause is strokes falles plenitude of humors crisis of maladye heate colde long trauell laxations riding and frictions The signes are manifest the iudgmentes are that those which happen after a long maladie are difficill and dangerous as sayth Hyppocrat●s are long in healing painfull to the sick dolorous the humor being either extreame hot or colde which maketh inflamation in those partes sometime matter virulent vnder the lidde which causeth the bone goe out of his place and sometime turneth ouer as I saw once in Paris The cure consisteth in vniuersall and p●rticuler remedies vniuersal shal be according to the qualitie of the humor as yee haue hearde in the generall Chapter the Topicall remedies shal be repercussiues discutientes drying according to the nature of the part which shal bee distinguished according to the degrees of the aposthumes as ye haue heard in Phlegmon If it tende to suppuration be warie in opening of it our auntients forbid to open deepe vnder the lidde because parts are sensible and dolorous of the which happeneth euill accidents Vse medicamentes corroboratiues and anodines euacuate the matter and cicatrice the wound as others sometime the tumor is ingencred of winde which deceiueth the Chirurgian and if it happen cure it as ye heard in windie and waterie tumor The foure and thirtieth Chapter of the tumor in the veines of the legs called Varicae VArix is dilatatiō of the veine greater thā natural which happeneth in diuers partes of the bodie as tēples bellie vnder the nauell on the testicles matrix but chieflye in the legges which is sometime one veine sometime diuers together full of thick burnt melancholick blood letting action of the place The cause is abundāce of the melācholick humor retentiō of the moueth course in womē Hemorhoides in both sexes which dilateth the veines sometime breaketh as oft happeneth to women in their trauell for the which I haue treated at lēhth in the treatise of womēs birth likewise vehemēt exercise as leaping wresling carying of great burthēs strokes falls tormēts such like The signes may be seene by the greatnes of the veins which cōmonly are blacker than the naturall The iudgemēts those that are interne are incureable and not to bee touched because it letteth the ●fluxion so returneth to the noble parts causeth great accidents intertaineth old vlcers letteth the cure therof The cure is diuersly set down by diuers authors some counsell to incise them in diuers places according to the circum●olution and let the blood then to close vp and binde the wounde as in other blo●dinges resting that daye and if they swell agayne doe the place with a little inke the skin aboue the veine therafter take vp the skin with thy handes and incise in the middst therof then let it goe that the veine may be seene passe two needles as in the varicus herne let it bleede a quantitie knit it let the thre ad fall of it selfe without drawing it by force and cure the wound as others The fiue and thirtieth Chapter of the little Tumors in the leggs called Dracunculus THis is a tumor or extraordinarie dolor bredde in the legges or armes called Draguneus yet diuers authors haue giuen it diuers names as Auicen calleth it Meden by the name of a towne where it is frequent Albucrasis calleth it Venaciuilis Halyabbas vena famosa There is also touching the cause cure great difference it chaunceth most cōmonly in the midst of Arabia as writeth Paulus and is not oft seene amongst vs yet some-what I will say of it for the better instructiō of the yong Chirurgian Paulus and Auicen are of opinion that in the place affected the humor is like vnto little wormes somtime great otherwhiles small chiefly in the partes musculous as in the arters thighes and legges and sometime in childrens sides vnder the skin with manifest motion Some take it bee a sharp and mordicant humor betweene the flesh and skin which in time waxeth hard like an nerue or tendon It is iugendred of a hot melancholick blood burnt phlegme sent through the veines to the exterior parrs by the vertue expultrix The signes are vehement dolor feuer harde and rounde like nerues seeming to moue in the touching as it had life the tumor is long and stretched from one ioynt to an other as from the kne● to the foote The cure whether it bee humor or animall vegetatiue is to foment the place with milke and camomill or medicines to appease the dolor then to giue aire eyther by canter or vissicator if it be not dolorous and tend to suppuration cure it ●s yee haue heard in Erisipelas changing alwayes your remedies according to the times of the Tumor and Humor which raigneth The thirtte sixe Chapter of the Tumor in the legges or armes called by the Greekes ●lephantiasiis particularis THIS if it be vniuersally through all the bodie it is called Leprosie if it be particular it occupieth onely one mēber which spoyleth the forme figure and disposition thereof and maketh it rough like the skinne of an Elephant for which reason it is called Elephantiasis If it occupie the skinne and not the flesh it is called Morphaea The Cause commeth from the mothers wombe and is called Maladie hereditarie or after wee are borne if from the wombe either the childe hath bene
conceiued in the time of the monethly purgations or else the mother or father hath beene elephanticke After we are borne it commeth eyther of corruption of ayre as in places neare the Sea which maketh the humors of the bodie thicke also dwelling in hotte countries as in Aphricke Spayne and others where many haue this disease also in colde partes which thicken the humors plenitude of the humors chiefly of the melancholicke retention of the hemerhoides or purgation menstruall defect in the milte corrupteth the humors chiefely melancholy great vsage of melancholike meates ae Swine Goates Hares cheese and such like The Signes are great tumor occupying the whole member or some parte thereof which augmenteth by little and little not dolorous insensible which sometime is inflamed The iudgementes when it is vniuersall or particular it is incureable yet some remedies palliatiues may be vsed to lette and stay the maladie by purging the melancholicke humor bleeding bathing ventousing prouocation of the flowers and hemero●hes vsing of good regiment and thinges that ingender good blood abstayning from things of contrarie qualitie the which must be done by the aduise of the learned Physitian If there come inflammation in the hart vse such remedies as are set downe in the Chapter of Phlegmon I haue seene some haue this maladie and liue 20. yeares and more by the vsing of good regiment but I haue knowne none to come to perfect cure The thirtie seauen Chapter of the tumor which commeth in the extremities of the fingers called Paneris or Paranochia THis Aposteme which occupyeth the extremities of the fingers and rootes of the nailes is called by the Greekes Paranochian by the Latins Reduuiae The Cause is melancholick humor venemous and most hot of the nature which proceedeth from the bones nerues tendons and membranes which couer the same The signes are vehement dolor whic maketh the ●icke almost beside himselfe great inflamation feuer and sundry other lik accidents as in Carbuncle The Iudgments it is sometime vlcered with virulent matter is verie dangerous as saith Gordonius oftentimes afore there bee any outward apparence in the flesh it rotteth both the bones and ligaments and membranes and then there is no remedie but to cut it for feare it infect the rest and also cause death as reporteth de Vigo The Cure first the sicke shal be purged and bleede in the arme opposite vsing good regiment and abstayning from all strong drinke as for the topicall remidies there are diuers opinions amongst our old writers some counsell repercussiues and ●nodins and supuratiues other counsell for the greatnes of this disease not to abide the maturation but presently make incisiō in the inner side of the part or ioynt the length of the said ioynt going to the bone to giue issue to the venim which is cōmonly the periost and bone let it bleed till it ●●aunch of it selfe thereafter washe the part with strong vineger and Aquauitae wherein hath been delayed a little Treacle vsing a liniment of vnguent rosat Populeon with a little oyle of Roses or a cataplasme made of the leaues of Henbane Sorrell mandrakes rosted vnder the ashes and mingled with a little Butter or Hogges greace this doth appease the dolor and prouoke matter This being doone cleanse the vlcer and cicatrize it as in others The thirtie eight Chapter of the litle hardnes in the feete commonly called Cornes THose hard tumors which cōmonly occupie the toes and feete chiefly the ioyntes and vnder the nailes are called Cornes and in latin Clauus of the which there are three kindes to wit Corpus Callus and Clauus The Cause is chiefly in wearing straight shoes superfluous excrements which cannot auoide so remaineth in the partueruous and acquireth a certaine hardnes according to the nature of the part where they are The Signes are apparent to the sight The cure is that those that are little not deepe are to bee cut finely at the roote and filled vp with a little wax and greene copperous or else a little of the sande which remaineth of the vrine take heede yee cut not to deepe amongst the ligaments tendons for the great accidentse that followe as inflamation sometyme conuulsion and Gangren so that some loose their toes feete In cutting a part of it the roote groweth more large then it is best to foment the part with water of mallowes and Althea or water wherein Tripes haue been sod thereafter vse Gum Ammoniac dissolued in Aquauitae and laye one it or this which I haue often vsed made of lyke quantitie of Turpintine wax and verdegreace and applye thereon And so we end this Treatise and shall followe out to intreate of woundes in like manner THE SIXT TREATISE Of Woundes and containeth twelue Chapters Chapter 1 Of woundes in generall Chapter 2 Of the simple wound Chapter 3 Of the composed wound with losse of substāce Chapter 4 Of the contused woundes Chapter 5 Of woundes done by gunshot Chapter 6 Of woundes in the veines and arters Chapter 7 Of woundes in the Nerues Chapter 8 Of wuundes by biting of venemous beastes Chapter 9 Of woundes in the bones Chapter 10 Of woundes in the head Chapter 11 Of woundes in the thorax Chapter 12 Of woundes in the bellie The first Chapter of the cause signes and curation of woundes in generall CO Like as wee haue proceeded in the former Treatise of Tumors wee shall follow out the same Method in woundes and so I demaund what is a wound LO It is a dissolution of the continui-tie recent bloudie without putrifaction in the soft hard or organicke partes CO. Which is the cause of woundes LO Whether they be animate or inanimate they are of three sortes of the which they take their denomination as if the wound be made by a thing sharpe pointed as a rapier launce or darte it is called thrust or stabbe if with a cutting thing it is called incision or cut if with a heauie blunt thing as a stone or club which commeth by force and breaketh contundeth the flesh it is called cōtusion CO. Which are the signes of woūds LO They are manifest according to the iudgement accidēts that follow CO. Which are the differents LO Some are simple others cōposed CO. What is a simple wound Lo. It is that wherin is no lacke of substāce healed one way only to wit by cōsolidatiō as sayth Hyppocrates CO. What is composed LO It is that in the which there is losse of substance and hath diuers intentions for the cure thereof CO. Differ woundes no otherway LO They differ also in that some heale easily some are difficill and some are mortall some without intemprie some little other great sperficiall profound in the simple or similar others in the instrumentall or orgaine parts some in soft some in hard partes CO. Which are those which heale easily LO
Land The eleuenth Chapter of woundes in the Thorax THe Thorax which is domicill to the heart and lights suffereth solution of continuitie in diuers manners whereof some are externe and doe not penetrate others penetrate to some of the partes contayned therein as the heart lightes mediastin and diaphragma some passe throughout of the which some are cureable some incureable and some mortall as yee haue heard in the Chapter Generall as also the Causes and Signes Those which penetrate at the backe are more dangerous then at the interior part because of the veines arters nerues and such like The Cure consisteth in good dyet in the sixe vnnaturall thinges purgation letting of bloud according to the temperature of the body time and Region Those which doe not penetrate differ nothing from the generall of other simple woundes sauing onely in binding which must be incarnatiue sometime narrowe otherwhiles broad according to the difference and scituation of the wounde Touching those which penetrate there is great diuersitie of opinion in the cure some are of the opinion to consolide the wound as soone as may bee to hinder the externe ayre to hurt the partes vitall others giue counsell to holde them open and in case the issue be not large enough to dilate it and make it larger that if there bee any bloud or other thing in the capacitie it may auoyde but which of these wayes ought to bee followed the iudgement of the expert Chirurgian is to bee required knowing first if it doth penetrate which shall bee done in closing his mouth and nose and then holding a candle to the wound if the ayre cōmeth forth it is sure that it penetrates if there be bloud in the capacitie you shall know by the ponderositie of the diaphragma accompanied with dolor feuer and vomiting if any chiefe part be offended ye shall know by the signes set downe in the Chapter Generall If neither bloud bee shedde nor any parte offended yee shall conglutinate the wound putting no tent therein vsing onely a little of my balme set downe in the Chapter of Gunshot in the meane time vse one potion vulnerar which doth penetrate If there be any little thing left in the wound nature will easily discharge it for as saith Galen it doth expell not onely that which offendeth through the pannicles but also through the middest of the bones Those which penetrate with effusion of bloud on the diaphragma are not mortall must be tented with a threed at the tent to the ende that if it goe in it may bee drawne out agayne cause the sicke lie on the sore side chiefly when you dres●e him that the bloud and mattir may issue at the wound vsing alwaies iniections of barley pimpernell pilosell buglosse scrofularie cheruill all sodden in water putting thereto a little honney or syrr●pe of roses with a little white wine for a certaine time Sometime the bloud cannot euacuate by the wound it being higher then the diaphragme which causeth difficultie of respiring for the which make an issue as ye haue heard in Empiema to euacuate the humor contayned if the put●efaction be great mixe with the foresaid iniection a little egiptiac the wound being mundified with this or such like thou shalt vse this iniect●ō which is somewhat desiccatiue Rec. ros●rum balaustiorum myrtilorum an onc 1. mirabolani citrini an onc 2. mellis rosati parum coquantur in aqua plantaginis ad consumptionem tertiae partis with this thou shalt washe the wounde twise a day If the body be of an euill temperature or that the nether part of the lightes be hurt it stayeth not quickely but will voyde much then we must vse a tent of lead or siluer that is hollow within that the matter may enacuate we vse also this decoction to drinke in the morning fasting foure howers after Take scabions bugl●sse borage pimpernell aristo●●lochia agrimonie betonie pilosell an M. se vnarum mundatarum seminis hipericonis et cardui benedicti an onc 1. florum trium cordialium an P. 1. coquantur in aqua adde in sine v●ni albi parum sirupi rosati et cinamomi an on● 2. vsing on the wound the emplaster Diacalciteos malaxed in wine If notwithstanding these remedies it remaineth long in healing it doth degen●er infistull for the curation of the which haue recourse to the Treatise of vlce●s Chapter of Fistula The twelfth Chapter of wnundes in the Bellie THe inferior venter wherein the Lyuer with the Kydneis milt are inclosed is often wounded in diuers manners some penetrates and some not offending the parts contayned as the stomack liuerr milt kidneis gutt● veines arters the epiplon and v●i●ers or some other part the causes signes and Iudgments whereof ye haue heard in the generall Chapter The Cure is those that do not penetrate are cured like other simple woundes those which penetrate into the capacitie require an other manner of cure Woundes in the side in the oblique muscles are not so dangerous as those in the transuersall because that the peritone is vneasie to sow specially in musculo recto which descendeth from the brest to os pubis Also little woundes in those places are more difficill than those that are more ample in them if the gutts come not they tumifie and so are vneasie to put in againe for the which vse such remedies as ye haue heard in Ax●mphalon vsing the future Gastoraphick if the gutts be pearced they must be sowed with future pellitor and cast on the wound the pouder of aloes mirre mastick and boll and reduce it softly in the owne place vsing an emplaster retentiue and agglutinatiue If the l●i●●ium be cut it is impossible or most dificill to heale by reason of the great veines cōtained therin if any of the guts hath changed coulor there is no hope If the caule of the venter be altered it must be knit and reduced as ye haue heard in the generall Chapter In all woundes in the bellie vse Clisters and innections astringents detersiues chiefly if the great intestine matrix or bladder be hurt And so we end this Treatise of woundes and shall follow out that of vlcers after the same manner THE SEAVENTH TREATISE of vlcers which contayneth Ten Chapters By Peter Low Arellien Chapter 1 Of vlcers in generell Chapter 2 Of vlcers s●nious and their curation Chapter 3 Of the vlcer Virulent Chapter 4 Of the vlcer profound and Cauernous Chapter 5 Of the vlce Sordide and Putride Chapter 6 Of vlcers difficill to Cure Chapter 7 Of vlcers with corruption of the Bones Chapter 8 Of vlcers Cancrous Chapter 9 Of Fistula Chapter 10 Of Burninges The first Chapter of vlcers in generall CO Seeing wee haue amply spoken of tumors and wounds of their definit●n cause signes and cure so in like manner we will proceede in vlcers seeing many tumors and woundes doe suppure and degender in vlcers so it is needefull after the Treatise hereof to speake of vlcers
man haue an vlcer whether it be come to him before his sickenesse or in the sickenesse and the sicke die that vlcer shall bee before hee die drie blewe or pale The same Hippocrates saith also that those who haue vlcers accompanied with tumor doe neither fall in conuulsion rauing nor phrensie but if the tumor goe away without manifest cause if the vlcer be in the backe the sicke falleth in spasme if before in the bodie in rauing and phrensie if in the thorax before he falleth in emp●●m and pleurisie all vlcers accompanied with varices or intēperie and those also that haue the sides hard are difficill to heale all vlcers in the extremities of the muscles of the legges and armes are difficill and dangerous as also those which penetrate in the bodie such vlcers as chaunce in the extremities of the bodie as in the feete or handes make oft phlegmons or other tumors against nature and in crisis of a maladie are difficill CO. Which are those which are of easie curation LO Those which happen in bodies of good complexion in the which none of the foresaid accidentes doe happen CO. Which are the chiefe causes that hinder the healing of vlcers LO According to Galen the chiefe cause is want of good bloud to ingender flesh or else that it is euill either by quantitie or qualitie of it selfe also dolor intemperie apostume contusion erisipelas echymois superfluous flesh hardnesse callositie of the sides corruption of the boane varices hemoragie of bloud also roundnesse in figure for the which Hippocrates counselleth if the vlcer bee round to put on it an other forme Imbecillitie of the part vlcered indisposition of the lyuer or milte retention of the monethly course in women and of the hemerroihdes and also the applying of medicines vnmeete for such vlcers Many ignorant barbors faile herein thinking one kinde of emplaister to bee good for all sores in the which they are deceiued for hee that would cure vlcers must first take away the cause as also the impedimentes and accidentes otherwise he trauaileth in vaine as saith Paulus for the perfourmance whereof we must ordayne first good dyet secondly take away the cause antecedent to witte the humor which falleth which shall be done by purging bleeding according to the cause on the parte thirdly correct and heale the accidents and indispositions which accompanie the vlcer these thinges done hee may come to the curation hereof as shall be particularly set downe of euery kinde of vlcer in his proper place The second Chapter of Vlcers sanions and the Curation thereof AS in the former Chapter I haue spoken of Vlcers in generall of their difference cause signes and iudgements cure so now I will particularly intreat of them All Vlcers are either simple or composed with some other maladie the simple Vlcer requireth onely desiccation those which are composed and ioyned with some other accident except those accidentes be taken away cannot heale for the cure of the which there are foure Intentions first in the way of life which shall bee according to the strength of the sicke nature of the maladie aboundance of the humors in the bodie as if the humors be hotte and sharpe we ordaine colde thinges The second Intention is in diuerting and intercepting the matter antecedent which is done by purgations and bleeding if the strength permit also by frictions ligators application of emplaisters that haue the force to repell the matter The third Intention is in correcting the accidents ioyned with the vlcer as dolor tumor contusion excrescence of the flesh callositie of the lippes rottennesse of the boane varice and wormes First then wee must labor to take away the intemperie which shall be knowne by the colour of the member by the touching and feeling of the patient which sometime is hotte sometime colde which if it be drie wee remedie it by purgation and bleeding also if neede be foment the place with hotte water till it growe redde as counselleth Galen thereafter vse this vnguent made of mallowes sodden in water with a little hogges grease and honney mixed with nutritum ceratum galeni rosatum populeon incorporate with plantaine water morrell and housleeke If the Intemperie be humide vse vnguents that drie as pompholigos de plumbo cerusa allom water vnguent basilicon citrinum fuscum de althea or this fomentation of claret wine in the which hath beene sodden roses betonie wormewood roch allom If the Intemperie bee cold we foment the part onely with wine wherein wormewood hath beene sodden hyssope calamint rosemary vnguent basilicon de althea If the Intemperie be hotte we remedie it by water of plantaine solanum housleeke or vnguentum rubrificum cum camphora or cerat galen if there be dolor with vlcer which commeth of intemperie erosion of a subtill humor or solution of continuitie or plenitude of grosse humors or a flatuous spirite for the which take vnguent populeon oyle of yolkes of egges vnguentum album camphoratum with other such as are in tumors if the dolor be vehement we make a cataplasme narcotick of barly flowre oyle of roses henbane mandrager poppie all sodden in milk If the dolor be accompanied with tumor first looke to the cause of it thereafter ordayne the dyet straight and cold bleeding purging according to the nature of the humor with such particular remidies as ye haue heard in tumors The excrescence of the fleshe shal be taken away with ca●ters rasors sheeres pouder of mercur●● burnt allom ●●●stum squama aeris vnguentum aegiptiacum apostulorum vitrioli romani The hardnes is cured by Remollientes and Resoluentes as goose henns ducke and calues greace oyle of Lillies lumbricorum vulpinum muscilaginis of althea and fenigreci basilicon diachilon magnum de muscilaginibus thereafter scarifie as coūselleth Auicen then put pouder of mercurie or cut it with a Rasor to the soft part If the vlcer become blacke and Red scarifie it and lette it bleede well and applye thinges drying If it bee accompanyed with Varice it must bee taken awaye as yee haue heard in the Chapter of Varix If there be rottensse in the bone yee shall haue recouse to the proper Chapter If there be wormes in the vlcer wee must consume the rottennes and humiditie they are ingendered of and kill them also take the decoction of Wormewood Agrimonie Centorie Calamint which is to wash the vlcers also in the eares fasting spittle is good for vlcers in the eares and make the Cicatrize well fauoured with the foresayde dococtiō wash the vlcers as also with Oyle of Wormwood the pouder Aloes mixed with the Oyle of Absynthe and a little waxe is verye good Millefolum taken the weight of one dramme in white Wine sleaeth the wormes in bellie also The fourth intention consisteth in healing of the places vlcered which shall bee doone in taking away the impediments as ye haue heard thereafter ci●atrize the vlcer with such
singulorum onc di cerae et olei an quātum sufficit fiat vnguentum with defensiues of bol If for all this the vlcer augment and grow worse we vse more strong remedies to consume the putrefaction as canters actuals or rasors or medicaments that haue vertue to make a scale according to the saying of Hipp. that which healeth not by medicaments it healeth eyther by iron or fire which shall be continued till ye come to the good flesh and shall be knowne by the colour Arsenic or vitriol roman is good to separate the rotten from the whole being mixed with aquauitae honney and egiptiac If by all these remedies ye profite not but that the euill doth augment the parte must be cutte off for the safetie of the rest as counselleth Celsus The sixt Chapter of the Vlcer difficill to heale called Cacoethes YEe haue heard that some Vlcers are easie some hard and some indifferent but those vlcers which heale not after all thinges duely vsed are called Cacoethickes or malignes and long in healing and by Galen dispulotica The Cause is the euill temperature of the bodie as if the humors be vitiated called by the Greekes cachochymie or if there bee aboundance of humors called by the Greekes plethorie they must be also euacuated also that that the callositie or intemperie in the parte must be taken away The Signes are the diuturnitie of the Vlcer the indisposition and malice of the humor the hardnesse and callositie of the lippes tumified there commeth Sanie in quantitie but thin euill sauoured little dolor sometime healeth and oft openeth vp againe chiefely in the feet and legges As for the Cure ye must take away the cause and reduce the parte to the naturall otherwise it is impossible to heale it If there bee plenitude cachochymie intemperie either of all the bodie or some parte interne as the lyuer the milte the stomacke or else of the part vlcered about it vice in the humor or some varix roundnesse and hardnesse of the vlcer first ye must purge the body as yee shall finde expedient bleede if cause require vse good dyet eate thinges that ingender good humors vsing decoction of falseperell made thus Take salseper●ll onc 4. guiac onc 1. di macerentur per noctem in lib. 8. aquae purissimae bulliat lento igne ad consumptionem mediae partis addendo in fine saniculi buglossi pilosellae pimpernellae quinque nerui● ga●●ophillate consolidae maioris et minoris capill●rium omnium an m. di glicerize rase onc di fiat decoctio capiat summo mane et sudet et a prandio onc 4. sine sudore et aliis horis si voluerit This is a most excellent helpe for all vlcers If the fault be in the liuer milte or stomacke corroborate these partes by aduise of the learned Physitian if the fault be in the part vlcered eyther beeing tumified with varix such accidentes it shall be corrected as in vlcers sanious as also if it be rounde If the fault be in the humors which occupie the vlcer they must be euacuated All Vlcers which are difficill to cicatrize must haue the bloud about them euacuated either by scarrifications or horsleaches and washing it with allom water and such as ye haue heard in vlcer putride If the parte about the vlcer be blacke liuide or redde scarrifie it and euacuate wel the bloud applying a drie sponge with medicamentes defensiues as in vlcers sanious If the lippes of the vlcer be callius hard and liuide it must be consumed with medicamentes if not that way we●●t the hardnesse to the quicke flesh and let it bleede well to diuertise the fluxion intercept the cause of the hardnesse These thinges all obserued thou shalt followe out the rest of the cure as is set downe in the simple vlcer The seuenth Chapter of Vlcer with corruption of the Boane THere are some Vlcers which after they are healed and cicatriced a certayne space become tumified suppure and renue the vlcer agayne which chaunceth when the vlcer hath beene long in healing maligne fistulous gangrenous cancrenous by the defluxion of the humor in the proper substance of the boane as wee see in the virulence of the venerian sickenesse the which consumeth the periost rotteth the boane and consumeth the bloud which is the proper nouriture thereof also application of oyle or thinges vnctuous on the boane which corrodeth This corruption commeth by degrees first becomming fat through the humor which is soaked in it next either black or rotten and is knowne by the mattir that commeth from it which is viscous and stincking also great store of spongious flesh the corruption is also knowne by the sight not being white as it ought also by the sounde not equall but knottie and soft For the Curation after remedies vniuersall let there be vsed a good dyet purging and bleeding and vsing this potiō in the morning not eating foure houres afore nor three after Rec. hor dei mundi partes 3. gentianae partes 2. centaureae minoris parta 1. coquantur in vino albo putting to it a little gaiac this potion is good for the suppuration of the boanes as is learnedly written by Togatius The particular remedies are of three kinds that is rougins canters potentiall and actuall before the application of the which we must be assured what quantitie of the boane is altered then incise the vlcer discouer that which is offended and if the rottennesse be but superficiall we vse rougin till we perceiue the bloud which sheweth it not to be altered The boane which is neere consumed as in the head and such places as be neere the noble partes and ioynts and in the ridge of the backe we vse also the rougin with this pouder of the rootes of aristoloohia iris florentiae corticis pini thuris aloes s●oriae aeris an partes aequales stampe them in aquauitae and drie them in an ouen which shall bee done twise or thrise and lay these pouders on the boane with the emplaister diacalciteos or betonica ye may also mixe these pouders with a little honney or aureum If these thinges be not sufficient and the alteration be greater we vse canters potentiall as oyle of vitriol oyle of cloues mercurie camphire sulphure salis antimonij incense and such like But if the rottennesse be great fat and vnctious wee apply canters actualls once or twise to separate the whole from that which is rotten perfunding till the outmost of the altered thing which ye shall know when there commeth no more humiditie if you continue them longer you consume the humiditie naturall which shoulde ingender fleshe betwixt the rotten and the whole for the which haue good Iudgement This remedie hath vertue to corroborate and comfort the parte and drieth and consumeth the euill humors and helpeth the separation the which beeing perceiued shake it by little and little and draw it not by force if
it be drawne before the flesh be growne on the whole the ayre will alter the other also Of this remedie commeth no dolor if yee touch nothing but the boane after the canters are applyed we vse oyle of roses with whites of egges for the first two dayes then mixed with whites of egges and fresh butter with honney thereafter some mundificatiue till the boane bee exfoliated and then vse the powder aboue written mixed with honney to incarnate cicatrize thereafter consolide the vlcer If the rottennes come to the marow and the bone be all corrupted there is no remedy but amputation except in the head haunch and rigge backe in the which we vse remidies palliatiues as ye haue heard The eight Chapter of the vlcers Cancrous and their Curation HAuing intreated heretofore of Cancer in generall here we will speke of the vlcered which as saith Guydo is an vlcer round horrible hauing the lippes thick harde inequall sordide turned ouer cauernous euill fauoured of colour liuide and obscure accompanied with many veines full of Melancholick blood voyding a matter virulent sanious worse than the venim of beastes subtill waterie black or red It is so called for two causes as saith Auicen the one because it cleaueth so fast to the part as cancer to that which it taketh holde of the other because it hath veines about like the feete of the cancer The cause commeth of the cancer vnulcered and vlcers euill cured and by the humors Melancholicke which come from all the partes of the bodie which do putrifie and heate so acquir a sharpnes and venenositie and breede cancer The signes are these the cancer vlcered is still redde caue to the profound of the member casting a virulent matter in great abundance pricking dolor and irriteth by the application of remidies and operation manuall so not to bee touched and therefore called Noli me tangere The Cure generall consisteth in purgation and dyet as in tumors cancrous Guydo cōmendeth a potion made of capillars herbi Roberti scrofuralia cent●nodie Treacle and Methridate are good for they cause venim to come out in the skin The particular is if it be in such a place that it may not bee taken away with the braunches it shal be done by incision canterization or corrosion and that the blood be all well exprimed out of the veines thereafter canterize it with such as haue force to consume the euill humor quoniam in extremis morbis extrema sunt adhibenda remedia The arsnic sublimat is excellent for it mortifieth in one day cancers fi●●ules and other strang maladies apply defensiues and anodins produce the fall of the scale as in the vlcer precedēt When ye perceiue that there is neither stink nor virulēcie but good flesh heale it as other vlcers If it be in any part that it may not be thus handled or the patient wil not or that it is incureable wee vse palliatiue remedies the which consist chiefly in good dyet abstayning from things contrarie vsing good things therafter euacuation generall purgations bleeding applying on the part medicamētis corroboratiues linimentes and refrenantes to diuert the fluxion with proper medicines as this take the iuyce of scabius solani an onc 2. plumbi vsti loti vnguēti pompholigos an onc di vnguenti albi onc 2. diacalciteos onc di oleum ●mphacinum parū agitentur in mortario plumbeo There are diuers other proper medicamentes for this effect as succus solani spima argenti cer●sae olei an partes equales contundantur et agitentur in mortario plumbeo donec haheant colerem plumbi When there is great dolor seeth althea in wine and honey putting thereto a little oyle of roses to make a cataplasme also wash the vlcer with wine wherein tapsus barbatus hath been sodden There are diuers vnguents and liniments set downe afore in the tumor Cancrous The nynth Chapter of the vlcer fistulous FIstula is an vlcer deepe straight round cauernous with great hardnes callositie frō whence procedeth an humor virulent Paulus Aegineta saith it is a sinuosity callous not dolorous in diuers parts of the bodye chiefly after apostemes not wel cured hemorroides which haue run lōg as also apostemes hemoroidall Of it there are diuers sorts the causes are as in vlcers cauernous but the humor which proceedeth frō it is worse cōming of an euil phlegmatick melancholick adust causing a bitternes venenositie The signes are knowne by the sound by the humor that cōmeth out which is virulēt stinking not dolorous except it be neare the nerue Galen calleth it a siring because it is caue within Paulus compareth it to the reede that haue cauities as also Aetivs The Iudgments some heale easily some are long in healing some are incureable Fistules with many cauernes are difficill as saith Celsus those that are nere to any noble part as in the thorax allo in the bladder matrix intestins are all perillous mortall those in the ribbes back ioynts are suspect and of difficill curation Fistules in the fundament which haue the orifice exterior are hard to heale all fistules in bodies euill disposed are of long curatiō There are diuers sorts of fistules for some are superficiall others do penetrate some a slope some right some simple others composed with one or moe sinuosities some end in the flesh some in the bones and some in the cartilages As for the cure we must first cōsider by the iudgment sound the deepenes and cauernosities if it be callons and endeth eyther in tendons cartilages or bones or penetrateth within all which things cōsidered we ordayn the way of life purg the body according to the nature of the humor therafter corroborate the parts intern with this potiō which hath oft been experimēted by old authos Re. hordei mundi scrofuraliae an partem vnā agremoniae centa●●re●● plātaginis minoris an partes duas aristolochiae partem di foliorū oli●ae filopendulae an partes duas scindātur omnia minutim pislētur bulliant in vino albo cum parrū saccari Of this decoctiō ye shal take a draught euery morning 4. houres afore meate The particular remedies cōsist in 4. things first to dilate orifice if it be stright which shal be done by tents of gentiā briony spōg prepared ciclamin if the fistule doth penetrate depe tie a thread to the tent the orifice being dilated we come to the secōd point to take away the c●llosity which is done either incisiō or cāterization or by remedies causticks corrosiues or to cut it with sheres or rasor or with such remedies as ye haue heard in vlcers caneruons If it be profound such kind of places where it may be knit we put a needle with a strong thread through it and knit the thread euery day more and more till it bee consumed
THE WHOLE COVRSE OF Chirurgerie wherein is briefly set downe the Causes Signes Prognostications Curations of all sorts of Tumors Wounds Vlcers Fractures Dislocations all other Diseases vsually practised by Chirurgions according to the opinion of all our auncient Doctours in Chirurgerie Compiled by Peter Lowe Scotchman Arellian Doctor in the Facultie of Chirurgerie in PARIS and Chirurgian ordinarie to the most victorious and christian King of Fraunce and Nauarre WHEREVNTO IS ANNEXED THE Presages of Diuine Hippocrates LONDON Printed by Thomas Purfoot 1597. TO THE MOST PVISSANT and mightie Prince IAMES the Sixte by the grace of God King of Scotland MOST Renowned and dread Soueraigne as heretofore I haue presumed to shrowd the first fruites and degrees of my studies vnder your Highnesse Name and protection So now both humble and entire affection haue moued me to present this Treatise to your royall View as a Testimonie of humble duetie to expresse my poore yet vnfeigned zeale For to your Maiestie the protection of all our doinges doe iustly belong and to your Highnesse are wee principally bound to doe all Seruice the which I being willing to performe and also tendring the commoditie and benefite of my natiue Countrey which GOD willing no occasion shall cause me to omit I haue published this Treatise and these my painefull labours to exonerate my selfe of the burthen which euery man is bounde to vndertake for the Common wealth if my industrie could haue produced better effectes it would reioyce to passe vnder the protection of so excellent mightie a Prince But the Arcadians can giue Pales but a fleece of woolle the Athenians a dish of Oliues to Pallas and my selfe haue nothing but these vnpollished lines to present to your royall Maiestie May it thē please your Highnesse as Minerua harbored an owle vnder her target Cytherea a deformed Cyclops in her louely bosome and Apollo the night-rauen vnder his heauenly Lute to accept in good part the trauailes of your humble subiect vassall which I humbly offer to your Highnesse praying dayly that all the blessinges in heauen may increase vpon your Maiesties Person and Progenie to your Princelie content and immortall glorie Giuen at London the xx of Aprill Your Maiesties most humble and obeisant subiect Peter Lowe To the friendly Reader IT is commōly said as it is of truth good friend that idlenes is the mother of all vices which doth not onely ingender them but also nourisheth intertaineth the same for auoyding wherof as also hauing promised in my Treatise of the Spanish sicknes to further thy knowledg with the whole Course of Chirurgerie now doe I publish the same not as Plato did his common wealth Cicero his Orator sir Thomas Moore his Eutopia leauing to the worlde any wished perfectiō not practised but I impart to thee my labors hidden secrets and experiences by me practised daylye put in vre to the great comfort ease and delight of such as had occasion to vse my help For being Chirurgian maior to rhe Spanish Regiments two yeares at Paris and since that time following the King of Fraunce my Maister in the warrs where I had commoditie to practise all points and operations of Chirurgerie vpon the which occasion I collected my practise with the opinion of both auntient late writers at vacant howers into a booke which is that I offer to thy view Seing then I doe not entreat of any vaine fable but of such earnest serious matter as toucheth the profit of all men in generall and the benefit and cōmodity of euery man in particular I hope the readers hereof will vouchsafe to attribute and graunt such diligence and willing eare mynd and attention hereunto as they are accustomed to do in those causes which they account most weightie graue and necessarie and which they are most desirous to know learne and vnderstand Herein thou maist reape the fruits of my trauells and studies and by the friendly acceptance hereof gaine to thy selfe fruition commodity of my other like labours like as my Treatise of the help of women in the time of their infantmēt with the curatiō of such diseases as happen cōmonly to maides maried womē the treatise which is called the poore mans guide which are works esteemed by such learned men as haue seene them most necessary for the cōmon wealth Some men perhaps more respecting their owne priuat gaine then the publique profit will thinke that I should haue cōcealed those things as did the Egiptians by writing in letters Hydrographicks But I rather follow the Grecians who vsed euery yeare to write in the temple of Esculapius in Epidauro in the presence of all the people all the sicknes they had cured together with the seuerall remedie for as the Philosopher saith bonū quo communius eo praestantius Also being moued by the counsell of Cicero where he saith that we should not onely haue regard to our owne particuler but also to the profite and commoditie of our kinsfolkes and frindes and generally to the common wealth of that Countrey where wee tooke our birthe the which counsell also was obserued amongst the old Romaines when their estate most florishtd for they did accompt him amōgst the number of the infortunate that during his life did not manifest in some one publique benefit or other his affectiō thankfull hart to the place wherin he first bread neuertheles there be som enuious and ignorant persons whom I may iustly compare to Antipholus that pearelesse pick thanke whose filthy hart being inflamd with malice will find fault with this my labour to whom I wil answere according to the saying of Erasmus Roterodamus vt ignaui canes omnibus ignotis allatrant ita barbari quicquid non intelligūt carpunt ac dam●āt only vpō this hope I rest that as in good wil loue I haue done this so the well disposed wil cēsure it in the best sort and where fault is they will in friendly and charitable maner correct and amend the same the ignorants I would desire onely to put to their hand and doe better wishing euerie man as much profit and benefit in reading hereof as my willing attempt hath intended them and so I ende bidding the gentle Reader most hartelie farwell From London the 20. day of Aprill 1597. Omnibus clarissimis Doctoribus Regii collegij chirurgicorū Parisiensū nempe D. Rodolpho Lefort D. Petro Pigret D. Anthonia Portal D. Seuerino Pineau D. Hyeronimo de la Noue D. Philippo Colot D. Simoni Pietro D. Iacobo Guilmean D. Loudouico Hubert D. Iodoco de Beauuais D. Gerardo Oliuier D. Francisco de Leury D. Iohanni de Hayes D. Iohanni Girard omnibus alijs Petrus Low Doctor in Chirurgia S. P. D. MEus naturalis zelus erga patriam meam Domini Asclepiadaei fecit vt generaliter ea celare non potuerim quorum notitiam legendo atque exercendo mihi acquisiui quandoquidem in his partibus non inueni viros tam
the Sixt Treatise CO. Ere 〈…〉 let vs 〈◊〉 what is the subiect of this 〈◊〉 LO CO. Seeing the subiect is so 〈…〉 that the Chirurgian be 〈…〉 the preseruation as recouerie 〈…〉 LO 〈…〉 be so CO. Howe 〈…〉 LO Arist● the 〈…〉 vs to begyn at 〈…〉 more 〈…〉 difficile as 〈…〉 CO. LO Fiue CO. LO 〈◊〉 first is to take away that which is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as to take away ●umors against 〈◊〉 lo●pes 〈◊〉 warts and such like to draw the 〈…〉 to take awaye a six● finger or toe 〈…〉 being dead out of the mothers wombe to cut a legge being gangrened or mortified the like Secondly to help and adde to nature that which it wanteth as to put to an artificiall eare nose or eye a hand a legge a platten in the roofe of the mouth which is needefull to those who by the Spanish sicknes or lyke disease haue the roofe of the mouth fallen The thirde is to put in the naturall place that which is out of his place as to put in the gutts the cawle or net that couereth the gutts called the epiplon or omentum after they by fallen in the scrotum to put bones in their own place being out of ioynt The fourth to seperate that which is contayned as in opening aposthumes opening a vaine scarifying applying of horseleaches ventoses by cutting the ligament vnder the tongue cutting two fingers growing together by cutting the praepuce of the yarde by cutting the natural conduit of womē being closed naturallye together or else by accident as often chaunceth after wounds vlcers such like The fift to ioyne that which is seperated as in healing brokē bones bones that be out of their place healing of woundes vlcers fistules and such like CO. What methode is to be obserued of the Chirurgian in working these opperarions LO First to knowe the disease next to doe the operation as soone as may be surely without false promises or deceyte to heale thinges that cannot bee healed for there are some who voyde of knowledge and skill promise for lucres to heale infirmities being ignorāt both of the disease and the remedies therof These faultes be often committed of some who vsurping the name of Chirurgian being vnworthie therof haue scarce the skill to cut a beard which properly pertayneth to their traide CO. It seemeth by your words that there are some infirmities pertayning to our art which are incurable LO There are diuers like as Cancer occult leprosie elephantike particuler also when the diseased refuseth the remedie proper for the cure thereof as to cut a mēber being mortified to make incisiō of the hydropick and also when by the curing of the maladie there ensueth a greater disease like as to stay altogether suddenly the hemorrhoides which haue long run to cut the varice on the leggs or elsewhere because the humour taketh the course oftentimes to some principal part which is cause of death Also in healing the biles which come in the legs or armes called malum mortuum CO. What remedies then are most expedient to bee vsed in these diseases LO Remedies palliatiue preseruatiue to let the euill that it increase not as wee shall intreate of each of them in their seuerall places CO. To doe all these operations what qualities are required of the Chirurgian LO There are diuers and first of all as Celsus sayth that hee bee learned chiefly in those things that appertaine to his art that he be of a reasonable age that he haue a good hand as perfit in the left as the right that hee bee ingenious subtill wise that he tremble not in doing his operations that hee haue a good eye that hee haue good experience in his art before he begin to practise the same Also that he haue seen and obserued of a long time of learned Chirurgians that he be wel manered affable hardy in things certaine fearefull in thinges doubtfull and dangerous discreete in iudging of sicknesses chast sober pitifull that hee take his reward according to his cure and habilitie of the sicke not regarding auarice CO. What conditions ought the sicke to haue LO Diuers also and first hee must haue a good opiniō of the Chirurgian that he haue a good hope to be cured of him be obedient to his counsells for that auaileth much in healing of maladies that he indure patientlye that which is done for the recouerie of his health CO. Which are the instrumēts that the Chirurgian ought to haue to doe his operations LO They are of twoo sortes for some are common others are proper the instruments or remedies common be also of two sortes for some be medicinals some be ferramentalls CO. Why doe you call them cōmon LO Because they serue indifferently to diuers parts and may bee vsed in all parts of the bodie CO. Which are the medicinalls LO They cōsist in ordaining good regimēt in things naturall vnnaturall and against nature in letting of bloode also in applying plaisters catapla●mes linimentes ponders vnguentes and such like CO. Which be the instruments ferramentals LO Some are to cut as rasures some to burne as cauters actualls some to drawe away as tenells incisiues pincetts tirballes some are to sound as to sound a winde the stone in the bladder and such like Some are to sow wounds and knit veines arters as needles CO. Which are the proper instruments LO Those which serue to one part onley as in the head a trepan with sundrie other capitalls in the eye an instrumēt called speculū oculi a needle proper to abate the Cataract in the eare a ciring for deafnes or to draw forth any thing inclosed in the eare some in the mouth as speculum oris or dilato●ū for conuulsion others are proper for the plurisie others for the hydropsie some to draw the stone which are made of diuers fashiōs some are proper for womē as speculū matricis sūdry are proper for the birth as ye shal here in our treatise of the sicknesses of women some are for the fundament as speculum ani some for broken bones and such as be out of their place as machnies lacs glossocomes CO. Which of these remedies are most necessarie to bee had alwaies with him LO Arnoldus de villa noua counselleth alwayes to haue sixe to helpe in necessitie for thinges that are common the first an astringent or retentiue to staye a bleeding or fluxion that commeth in any part the second is basili● to make matter in a wound or an a posthume the third some cleansing salue as Apostulorum or Diapeo the fourth is to fill vp a wounde or bile with fleshe that is hollowe like as vnguentum aureum The fift is cerat galen or rosat mesne proper to appease a great dolor or heate which oft chanceth The sixt is called De●iccatiuum rubeum or such like to drie and cicatrize the skin CO. Howe manye kindes of ferramentes ought the Chirurgian commonly to carrie with
according to nature which maketh the actions of our bodie perfect CO. How many kinds of maladies are there LO Three to wit Intemperi● Euill confirmation and Solution of conti●●●nitie CO. What is Intemperie LO It is a maladie in the similar partes digressing from the owne temperature CO. Howe many wayes is that done LO Two wayes to wit eithe● by the simple intemperie by the aboundance of a humor onely as colde hot moist or drie CO. What is Euill confirmation LO It is a vice in the partes organicks eyther in the figure magnitude or scituation as for example that which should be naturally right is oblique so forth as if a part were augmented or diminished contrarie to nature in like māner in the number of partes as if a man had sixe fingers or foure also in the scituation or collection as if partes naturally ioyned were disioyned as happeneth in dislocations CO. Which is the third kind of maladie Lo. Solution of conti●●itie both in the similar and organicke parts which hath diuers names according to the varietie of the partes where they are The second Chapter Of the cause of Maladie CO. What is the cause of Maladie LO It is some affection which maketh sickenesse of the which some are externes some internes CO. Which are the externes LO They are called procatarticks or primitiues as strokes falles shot and such like or euill nourri●●r CO. Which are the internes LO They are two to wit anticedents and coniunct CO. Which are the causes antecedents LO Euill humors in the body CO. Which are the causes coniunct LO It is that which maketh the sicknes presently and is alwayes with the sicknes and where the sicknes is not it is absent CO. Howe commeth the cause of maladie LO There are some we haue from the Mothers wombe and from the parents which wee call maladies heriditaries some doe ingender after our birth as by the regiment of life strokes and falles as you haue heard The third Chapter of accidents and Symptomes CO. What is accident or Symptome LO Galen sayth that symptome is any thinge that chaunceth to man by nature so the causes interne of sicknesses may bee called Symtomes CO. How many kinde of Symptomes are there LO Three to wit the first is when the action is offended which may be done three waies that is eyther abolished diminished or deprauated as for example in blindnes the sight is abolished dimished as suffocation as happeneth in the beginning of Catarack deprauated as for a certaine time as in changing the simple affection of our body or the whole habitude from one extremitie to another as the naturall heate into inflamatiō the scabs of the flesh into leprosie the third is in the vice of the excremēts by immoderat retention or expulsion as the Hemorhoides the purgations of women the vrines these or any of these retayned or euacuated ouermuch maketh great accidents and so we end this treatise THE FOVRTH TREATISE OF tumors or aposthumes against nature in generall which contaynes XIII Chapters Written by Peter Low arellian Doctor in Chirurgerie and Chirurgian ordinarie to the King of France and Nauair Of tumors in generall Chapter 1 Of Phlegmon Chapter 2 Of furuncle Chapter 3 Of Anthra● or Carbunele Chapte● 4 Of gangrene or h●stiomen Chapter 5 Of Sphasell Chapter 6 Of tumors bilions Chapter 7 Of Herpes Chapter 8 Of tumors petuito●s Chapter 9 Of flat●ons tumors Chapter 10 Of ●●heor●ma ste●tema mellericeris Chapter 11 Of melancholicke tumors Chapter 12 Of Cancer Chapter 13 The first Chapter of the causes signes and curation of Aposthumes in generall COinteret Now it is neceslarie wee come to the exercise of Chirurgerie for the more sure vnderstanding of the same wherein wee will begin at tumors er aposthumes against nature demaunding first of you what is an aposthume LO It is a disease composed of three diuers maladies to wit euill cōplexiō in the similar parts euill composition or constitutiō in the instrumētall parts dissolutiō of cōtinuity in both similar instrumentall parts offēding the actiōs of the mēber where it is CO. What is the cause of Apostumes LO Some are generals and some are specials CO. Which is the generall cause LO Either fluxion or congestion CO. What is fluxion It is a mouing of the humors of the body to some certaine part the which either by the quantitie or qualitie or both together may not be receyued by the parte without offence CO. Which are the causes of fluxion LO They are double to witte eyther in the parte or partes that sende or in the parte or partes that receiue CO. Howe is the fluxion made in the part that sendeth LO When the facultie retentiue of the part is ouercharged with humors which offend either in quantitie qualitie or both for then the part dischargeth it selfe by the vertue expultrix chiefly when it is strong also when the parte that sendeth hath connexion with the part that receiueth or when the patt that receiueth is inferior to the part that sendeth or if the said partes haue any sympathie tog●●her as the stomacke with the braine CO. Which are the causes in the partes that receyue LO They are diuers as weaknes not hauing force to repell or driue them elsewhere the vesselles and conduites large where the matter doth passe or else because it is soft in substance and so easie to receiue sometime for the dolor which maketh attraction of the matter from the partes neare to it or great heate which draweth and prouoketh fluxion CO. What is congestion LO It is a masse of matter contrarie to the nature ingendred of the superfluities of the thirde concoction of the aliment and foode which are distributed for the nouriture of the parts of the bodie which chaūceth when the aliment is not so digested as it may well be appropriated to the part which shoulde be nourished CO. Which are the causes of congestion LO They are either imbecillitie of the facultie concoctrix of the part that it can not digest that which is sent to it by nature for the nouriture of it or imbecillitie of the facultie expultrix that can not expell the superfluities that resteth commonly in the partes CO. By what meanes knowe you the tumors made by fluxion and congestion LO The tumors made by fluxions are with great dolor rednes pulsation and make the degrees faster than the other which are done by congestion Those which are done by congestion g●owe little and little and doe diminish in like manner when they come to their declination CO. Which are the speciall causes of aposthumes LO Three to wit primitiue antecedent and coniunct CO. Which are the primitiue causes LO They are external causes as falles strokes and other externall violences which moue the humors of our body also great heate of the aire or meate or drinke taken ouer hot or ouer cold CO. which are the causes antecedent LO They are internall not knowne
for example if the choller domaine amongst the bloud more then the rest of the humors the tumor shal be called phlegmonerisipelatus and in like manner in the rest as phlegmon edematus or schirrus so Galen saith that the humors are seldome found alone but mixed together The cause is triple primitiue antecedent and coniunct The primitiues are externall and first motiues as great vsage of meates which ingender much bloud also all those thinges which may moue the humors and prouoke fluxion falles strokes breaking of the bones contusion heate excessiue labour and such like The antecedant cause ● great superfluitie and aboundance of bloud offending either in quantitie qualitie or both intemperie euill confirmation and dolor of the part The cause coniunct or continent is the bloud or matter affixed in the affliged parte The signes are inflamation rednes hardnes feuer dolor and pulsation chiefly it being in maturitie The iudgementes the small ones doe often resolue the great ones doe often apostume someti●e degender into great sickenesses according to the euill disposition of the bodie and partes where it chaunceth as mortification and schirre Sometime it returneth to the place it came frō as in the emunctoires of the noble parts As for the curation it shall be reduced to foure pointes according to F●chius and Togatius the first in good diet of life secondly in staying the humour that floweth to the place thirdly in euacuating that which is in the place fourthly in correcting the accidents which often chaunce as saith Galen As touching the first which is good diet as saith Galen it shall be obserued in sixe thinges not naturals which shall be colde contrarie to the humor which is hotte sometime it shall be colde and humide and if it be with feuer the humor that floweth shall be diuerted by taking away the cause as repletion of the euill humors by bleeding purgations and also by strengthening the parte if it be debille also by frictions ventouseing and binding The humor shall be euacuated in diuers wayes according to the degrees of the apostumes as in the beginning we must vse repercussiues as whites of egges oxycrate rose and plantaine waters cataplasmes of bol armenie terra figillata barke of pomegranate henbane oyle of roses vnguent of roses album rasis diacalcitios or populeon For the augmentation which is the second degree we vse repercussiues and resolutiues like as mallowes plantaine roses wormewood barley flowre oyle of camomill oxicrate pouder of roses and mirtle sodden wine called sapa rose water vinegre saffron of which things you may make cataplasmes liniments fomentations as you shall finde expedient In the vigor we vse repercussiues and resolutiues in like force like as mallowes parietarie althea rosted vnder the ashes oyle of roses camomilli with a little beane flowre In the declination we vse only resolutiues Auicen counselleth to soften a little which shall be done with fomentations of althea origan lyne seede fenigrec flowers of camomill roses which thinges shall all be sodden in white wine mingled with a little barley meale and hony vnguent of aragon martiatum or agrippa de althea de melil●to or diachilon paruum We correct the accidents which is the fourth point as dolor which must be appeased by all meanes for the great accidents which often doe ensue For the which we vse oyle of roses waxe and wine sodden together as counselleth Galen Also cataplasmes of white bread and milke water oyle of roses violettes or camomill or annise seede or sweete almondes yolkes of egges with a little saffron in like manner the flowers of mallowes camomill and mellilot sodden in wine putting thereto a little barley flowre and goose grease lyne seede also vnguentes of roses and populeon If these thinges be not sufficient we take the leaues of henbane poppie rosted vnder the ashes and tempered with the iuice of sorrell and housleeke put to it a little hennes grease and saffron If the matter take the course inwrdly to some noble parte wee remedie it by application of ventouses cornettes frictions straight ligatures and such like If the matter com to a dispositiō schirrus we must vse medicamēts that soften digest as ye shall heare in the Chapter of schir If ●t tend to putrifaction it shal be helped by deepe scarifications cataplasmes made of beane flower soddē in vineger and honye and such other remedies as ye shall heare in the Chapter of Gangren Oftentimes this tumor tendeth to suppuration which we knowe as sayth Paulus by the great swelling and rednes of the place eminent great heate dolor pulsation and feuer and such like those thinges being perceiued we passe from resolutiues to suppi●atiues as to foment the place first with hot water or oyle also with honie and water called Hydreleon making a cataplasme with wheate flower sodden in Hydrel●on putting to it a little fresh butter Calues greace Henns or Goose Also you may make a suppuratiue of Lillie roots Sorrell Parretarie and Mallowes sodden in Hydrelion put thereto a litle flower of Fenegreck Lyu-seede oyle of Lillies with a little sower leauen after it is taken of the fier put to it twoo yolkes of Egges this sort of remedie appeaseth well rhe dolor for the same effect we vse the emplaster called Dilachilon magnum or Basilicon The suppuration made we know by the diminution of the accidents and the tumor which is pointed also with pressing on it with the two thumbes we find it soft with great innundation Then if it open not shortly of it selfe it must be done by a ruptor or lancet otherwise it waxeth hollow and putrifieth within In the opening of it there are three tules to be obserued as yee haue heard in the generall Chapter Here we must obserue that the incision be made in the inferior part the matter must not be euacuated at one tyme make the incision the length eschewing nerues sinewes veines and arters and not by the breadth as sayth Auicen When it is opened we vse the yolke of an egge with a litle Turpintine oyle of Roses for a certain space therafter hony of Roses or sirupe of Roses mundificatiue de apio apostolorum or my mundificatiue set down in the poore mans guide or any other thing that munifieth sometime we adde a little egiptiac specially to those which withstand the former remedies the vlcer cleansed wee mixe with a little Turpintine and Honye some pouder of Irish aloes and thus or some little aureum with these pouders thereafter the emplaster of Diacalciteos or red desiccatiue and such like so the vlcer healeth The third Chapter of the tumor Feruncle or Dothine which proceedeth of Phlegmon WE haue spoken in the generall Chapter of diuers tumors which come of the sanguine humor as Phigethton Phinia and diuers others but by reason they may be cured by the generall r●r● of Phlegmon we let them passe and speake of the rest beginning
at F●runole called by the Grecian Dothene F●runcle is a tumor sharp pointed with inflamation and dolor chiefly when it groweth to matter and is ingendered of a thicke 〈◊〉 or in the soft parts and groweth commonly to the bignesse of a doues egge and is for the most part in the skin The causes are externall or internall the internall is abundāce of blood the externall is in the vice of the skin also the suppression of the purgations in womē wearing vnaccustomed clothes also by suddaine taking a colde aire after a great heate or vehement heate immediatly after cold The cure first consisteth in generall remedies as purgations and bleeding next lay on it a little Diachilon with henns greace or Basilicon Galen counselleth to c●●we wheate in the mouth fasting and lay on it If it bee deepe and much inflamed oftentimes it degenerateth into Anthrax and Carbuncle and in that ease it must bee cured as yee shall heare in their proper Chapters The fourth Chapter of Anthrax or Carbuncle VVE must vnderstand that there is no difference betweene Anthrax and Carbuncle sauing that Anthrax is the Greeke worde Carbuncle the Latin worde and is so called because it burneth the place where it is like coales Carbuncle is properlye defiined to to bee a p●stule inflamed black burning the place where it is sore with many blisters about it as if it were burned with fire or water The cause is diuers according to the sundrye kindes thereof the cause of the simple Carbuncle is an Ebullition of blood thick and bot where it falleth in any place it burneth maketh vlcers with a scale on it accompanied with great inflamations and dolor The signs of the simple are those there appeare manye little blacke Pustules not eminent sometime pale and grow suddenle red with great inflamation about them the place is harder then it ought to be the sicke looseth appetite and coueteth sleepe accompanied with cold sweates and feuers The signes of the maling are vomiting continually want of appetit●e trembling sounding beating of the hart the face waxeth white and liuide The iugdmentes are if it happen neare the stomack or throate it hindereth the respiration as sayth Celsus That which rypeth and cōmeth to matter is good that which appeareth and goeth away with Feuer is mortall that which is first red ne●t yellow is not euill as sayth Auicen that which is first pale and afterwardes blacke is euill all those which are in the emunctions of the noble partes are most dangerous The cure consisteth in vniuersall and particuler remedies the vniuersall are a good dyet of life which shal be called and humide like vnto the regiment in Phlegmon resisting alwayes to the malignitie of the humor his drinke shal be made with sirupt of Lemmōs acetosis s●plicis capilli veneri granatorum bluglossi with water of the sayd things vse alwayes the tabletts of the margarite frigide conserues of Roses and buglosse bol armenie and terra sigillata and Iuorie in pouder the opiats which shall bee made of the same ingredientes are made of sirupe of Lemmons and Treacle vsing rhis epitheme on the noble partes Rec. aquae scabiosae rosarum nenupharis an 2. vnc aquae buglossi 1. vnc trechiscorum rasis camphor●● an 1. vnc corallorum rubrorum 1. drag di triasandali boli armenici an vnc 1. croci aceti par●um fiat epithema Vse clisters and bleede much as counselleth Galen and that in the same side vsque adauimi defectum The perticular remedies are these first we make deepe scarifications and it with water and salt called aqua marina we laye horsleache● on the scarifications vsing a cataplasme on the part of Crummes of white bread leaues of Plantine arnoglosse flower of Lentilles soddeu in vineger and honey Hipprcrates counselleth to applie canters actualls or some caustick medicament as oyle of vitrioll vnquenched lyme quoniam in extremis morbis extrema sunt adhibendaremedia and also ventouses medicines which haue vertue to draw the venim from the noble partes Paulus doth counsell to seperate the infected from the other partes and rase it from the roote afterwardes vse this cataplasme to prouoke the fall of the scale which also mitigateth the payne composed of Lyn-seede Mallowes Violets yolkes of Egges Butter and Barley meale For the sharpnes of the humor put about the parte affected vnguentum de bolo and on the pustulles the pastules of Andronius and Musa When the scale is fallen cleanse the vlcer with sirupe of Roses honey of Roses and Turpintine mundificatiue di apio this done cicatrice fill it vp as other vlcers Some counsell to take the consolida maior and bray it betweene two stones and lay on it The fifth Chapter of Gangren and 〈◊〉 VVHen the inflamation neither resolueth returneth inwardly nor suppureth nor becommeth hard it degendreth into Gangren which is a mortification not altogether of the part but tending by little little through the great violence of the inflamation for thereby the veines and arters are stopped that the naturall heate may not passe so the parte easily corrupteth and waxeth gangrenated The cause is great quantitie of bloud in the member which letteth the spirite to passe so bindeth and intercepteth it in such sorte that the arters cannot worke their transpiration and requisite exhalation so for want of naturall heate the members suffocates Also great application of cold medicamentes as repercussiues in phlegmon and erisipelas or some violent externall cause chiefely in the feete or handes as colde sometime crisis of feuer or maligne maladie strait ligatures contusions stroakes or biting of venemous beastes chiefely in the wayes and passages when the spirites doe passe The signes are if it came of inflamation wee perceiue the redde colour to decay dolor pulsation and feeling it waxeth pale soft and blacke and in pressing on it with thy fingers it falleth downe and riseth not If it come of colde we perceiue great beating paine great coldnesse without motion or feeling accompanied with trembling and shaking If it come of straite binding hurtes or biting wee knowe it by the markes and precedent signes and others according to the diuersitie of the cause The iudgementes are if it be not helped presently the force of it is so vehement that the parte dieth presently and the partes neere to it and so causeth death of all the bodie If the muscles and nerues be not hurt and the person young and of good constitution and well seene vnto in the beginning it is not difficil The cure after generall remedies as purgations and bleeding is diet in vsing cordialles deepe scarrification on the part and washing it with water and salt applying on the part cataplasmes made of flowre of beanes barley Orob and Lupines sodden in honey and vineger putting to it a little powder of
into the skin this way of ligature may be vsed in diuers partes of our bodie The blood being staunched we vse this following astringent pouder Rec. boli aimenici 3. ounces farine volatilis 2. ounces picis resine sanguinis draconis an one dram of this pouder you shall cast on the wound with drie flax thereafter an astringent or defensiue made of the foresaide pouders with whites of Egges and oyle of Roses lay it on flax in like manner that shall bee wett in oxycrate to couer the sore thereafter take a doubled cloth sufficient to couer the sore partes neare to it wet it likewise in oxycrate wherein cast the foresayd defensiue thy bandes wet likewise in oxycrate bind it well so that it be neither too straight nor too slack then situate the member in good sort and remoue it not in three daies chiefly in winter which is to be obserued according to the accidents which happen In changing these remedies beware to take away the s●are or knotts of the thread for auoyding whereof we rubbe the part with cerot of Galen to the end the defensiue cleaue not to it If there chance any veine or arter to open we shall dissolue a little vitrioll in vineger and lay on the veine on flax the breadth of a Groate this will stay it presently as I haue often proued If two or three open cause thy seruant to put his fingers on them and knit them as ye haue hearde afore The second dressing shall be done in the same maner or at least some astringment chiefly on the veines and arters and so continue till such time that there is no more feare of blood which will continue 8. or 10. dayes on the rest of the wound vse digest●● made in this forme Take Turpintine well washed in Plantine water vnc 4. hony of Roses vnc 1. barley flower halfe an ounce twoo yolkes of Egges and incorporate all well together and lay it on the sore till it be perfectly suppured thereafter mundificatiue d●appio apostolorum such like with this emplaster composed of equall portions of Diapalma and red Desiccatiue for a certaine time next vse this Cicatrizant to the entier curatiō Take tutia praeparatae plumbi crudi antimonij crudi corticis granati bala●stiorum nucis muschatae boli armenici sanguinis draconis an drag 1. accipiantur omnia simuli cū vnciis tribus vnguenti diapomphol●gos fiat magdaleon bone consistentiae In the meane time if there be any excrescence of flesh we correct it with pouder of alume sauine or oker or pouder of Mercurie taken in a little quantity these or any of them may be applyed alone or mixed with some vnguent This operation is most learnedly set down by my good friend M. William Clowes one of her Maiesties Chirurgians in his obseruation with an sure methode to staye the flux of blood For a further declaration of the premisses I will recite a historie which I did see during the siege of Paris where through great hunger cold and other miseries hapened many grieuous sicknesses as gangrens and mortifications amongst the rest there was a Spanish souldior who had blacknes on the toes of his feete as if they had been burnt I cut off his toes scarified the rest and vsed such remedies that he healed Shortly after there hapened the like in the toes of the other foote which I would haue cut and cured as the first but he esteeming it a deformitie would not suffer mee so that the griefe by delay waxed so violent and furious that by the aduise of the best Chirurgians in Paris at that time I was constrayned to cut off the whole legge so helped him This historie haue I alledged to shewe the daunger of delay and that if any such thing happen wee should not deferre it but proceede as ye haue heard Thus we end the tumors which proceede of the sanguine humor and hereafter we will prosecute those which come of choller beginning first with Erisipelas The seauenth Chapter of tumors Bilions called by the Latins Flaua bilis and first of Erisipelas WE said that there were 2 sorts of hot tumors to wit Phlegmon whereof we haue spoken and Erisipelas whereof in this Chapter we will speake Erisipelas is a tumor which proceedeth of the humor chollerick with great inflamation dolors for the most part not eminent without pulsation and is of pale and red colour It is called in Greeke Erisipelas in Latin Iguis sacer in our tongue wild fire it differeth not greatly from Phlegmon as sayth Galen some esteeme them to differ because the one proceedeth of blood the other of choller they differ also in coulor the one is red the other oftentimes pale the phlegmon entreth deepe in the flesh and muscles and so remaineth in the skin Of this there are two sorts the first is the true Erisipelas which commeth of choll●r only but when it is mixed with the humors there commeth three kindes of it as ye haue he●d in phlegmon The cause of this tumor is abundance of the chollerick humor great heate of the sunne stroakes falles and vsing of hot medicaments which mooue the fluxion and drawe the humor to any part of the body The signes are these the tumor is li●●e vehement heate dolor mordicant sieldome commeth to maturitie it appeareth often in the neck and face by reason of the tendernesse of the skin the coulor is not perfetered but mixed and so is somewhat pale If it bee vlcered it is better then if it strike in that which commeth out is good that which appeareth in the the face and in woundes is euill those which happen in the matrix are mortall those which appeare in the heade are verie daungerous and if good remedies bee not vsed the partie dyeth as sayth Aegineta As touching the curation there are twoo thinges to bee obserued euacuation generall and refrigeration with consolidation of the part the waye of life shal be colde and humide contrarie to the humor which is hot and drie as ye haue hearde in the generall Chapter abstayne from wine stronge drinke all sweete thinges from anger vehement exercise greate heate and such like The humor must bee euacuated by purgations clisters and bleeding and sometime scarified if it become liuide being first fomented with hot water and vse thinges on the sore which are colde and humide as Solanum Housleeke Lettice Succorie Vmbilicus Veneris Cucumbers take the iuyce or water of these or anye of them wet a cloth therein and laye it on the sore which is most expedient when it is in the face also colde water and oxycrate as counselleth Galen and Auicen for the same purpose cerot Gal●n oft washed in plantine water is verye good If there be vehement dolour as oft chaunceth the rootes and leaues of Henbane being rosted vnder the ashes and mixed with a litle Populeon are very good likewise vnguentū
ounce of salt and sulphure seethe them in smithes water with a little vineger and foment the part with a spounge or cloth For the same purpose you may make cataplasmes of the flowre of beanes and lentilles and branne sodden in vineger putting thereto a little of annise seedes mirtles or iris the emplaister of melilotus also is good Rogerius counselleth to take the iuyce of walwoortes and sorrell and marathum take of euery of them a reasonable quantitie and seethe them with the vnguent de althea honey oyle and butter make a cataplasme thereof If this tumor commeth to ripenesse cure it as other apostumes if it waxe hard and schirrus cure it as yee shall heare in the Chapter of Schirre The tenth Chapter of the waterie and windie tumors which depend of Edema YEe haue heard in our generall Chapter of diuers kinds of tumors phlegmatickes which pertaine to Edema whereof wee will speake hereafter beginning with the windie tumors which are nothing but certaine windes or inflations ingendred by a spirite thicke vaporous not of subtill substance aerious sometimes these winds are inclosed vnder the skin within the membranes which maketh distention sometime dolor according the part where it is They are sometime in the ventricle in the Puddings and in the capacitie betweene the puddings the peritō as in Tympanies soundeth like a drum it is somtime dispersed amōgst the muscles this is properly inflation differing from Edema for in pressing with the fingers the print doth not remaine but the other kind approch neare to the nature of Edema which is the flatuosities dispersed in the muscles of other parts musculous The cause of this tumor is too much vsing of colde flatuous meates which ingender the humor Phlegmatick and causeth these windes also the cause may bee in the ventricle and puddings also in the obstruction and stratghtnesse of the passages and imbecilitie of the naturall heate as sayth Galen The signs are tumor softnes more cleare than Edema by pressing the fingers there remaineth no marke as in Edema by knocking on it it soundeth like a bladder full of winde and so in these points it differeth from Edema The cure shall consist in two poyntes first in diet which shal be hot and drie eate litle and of light digestion let your bread be of good wheate well baked and salted vse things too corroborat the naturall heat discusse the thick cold vapors and attenuat also to corroborat the ventricle with aromaticall thinges and electuaries as Dia calaminto aromatico gariophillato dia galinga rose such like Eate good flesh as mutton and veale rather rosted than sodden let the drinke be Claret or white wine The secōd consisteth in euacuatiō of the humor which is in the part by topical remedies which haue vertue to clarifie the skin to the end the vapours may passe out and are called discutientes or carmen●atiues as annis-seedes Isope fennell parsly baccaelauri Iuniper paritorie rosemarie camomill and mellilot oyle of Irin and Bayes of these wee may make cataplasmes fomentations lessiues according to our owne Iudgment also limments of Camomill and Rue Lillies and a little Aquauitae or the emplasters called baccae lauri oxycroci de vigo mixed together make an emplaster and lay to the sore Also a new spong wet in lexiue also lanra succida wet in wine and oyle if these windes make dolor as commonly wee see in the chollick passion first appease the dolor then euacuate the matter which shal be done according to the part habitude of the person and discretion of the learned Chirurgian Vse also clisters carmenatiues if the flatuosities bee in the intestines applie three or foure ventouses on the bellie The eleuenth Chapter of the tumors Phlegmaticks called Atheoroma Steotema and Mellericeris THese tumors are called commonly ecressences phlegmaticks by reason they procede of the humor phlegmatick yet they differ from the other tumor by reasō they are in a membrane like little bagges they are also of a diuers strange sorts of matter of the which they take their names as Atheorema is also called because in it is cōtayned a matter like gruell called by the Greekes Athera The Steot●ma is so called because in it is contayned a humor like Greace called by the Greekes Stear Mellericeris is so called because in it is contayned a matter both in coulor and consistence like honey called by the Greekes Meli and is hardest of them three to heale As for the other tumors as br●nco ●eli ganlion testudo and the residue we shal speke hereafter in the particuler tumors these tumors happen most commonly in places membranous where there is scarsitie of flesh as on the ioynts hands diuers partes of the face The cause is pimitiue antecedēt and coniunct the primitiue or first motiue strokes falles violent forces immoderate eating and drinking The antecedēt cause is abundāce of humors chiefly of the phlegmatick vnnaturall engendred by euill diet the cause coniunct is the diuers kind of substance contaened in the part The signes are that they appeare by little and little without eyther dolor or president inflamation neuertheles by reason of the diuersitie of the substāce contayned in them they haue diuers signes the Ateorema is long in figure in pressing on it it goeth in slowly and returneth not suddēly it is soft without dolor the coulor of the skin vnnaturall in the which is found sometime with the matter haire sometimes bones and such like The signes of the Steot●ma are hardnes and if it goe in in pressing on it it returneth not easily it is large in the which is contayned with the accustomed matter bones cotten and such like of the which I fonde great quantitie in the knee of a Nun whom I cured in Paris of a Steotema The signes of melliceris are great softnes in touching cleare in pressing on it it goeth in easily and returneth easily and is rounde in figure and contayneth besides the matter accustomed a grauelly hard matter In the cure there is a simple intention to wit euacuatiō of the matter which is in the place and is done either by a launcet or cauter potentiall not euacuating all the matter at one time Here we must consider that those tumors are sōetimes inserted with veines arters nerues and tendons which require great dextetie in the operarion In taking awaye of the bagge wherein the matter is contayned to the end yee offende not the former partes for better it were to leaue the operation by reason that oftentimes there commeth greate flux of blood as I haue seene chieflye on the temples The tumor being opened yee shall vse such medicaments for the cleansing thereof as yee haue heard in other tumors The matter euacuated wee must consume the whole membrane wherein it is inclosed otherwise it will returne we consume it with pouder of
Mercurie egiptiac or such like thereafter incarnate and close the wound as in others Some vse only resolutiues on these tumors but such things are both tedious and vncertaine The twelfth Chapter of tumors ingendred of the Melancholick humor called by the Latins atra bilis or nigra cholera and first of Schirre SEing we haue suffitiently spoken of tumors ingendered of the sanguine chollerick and pituitous humor now it resteth to speake of those which proceede of melancholy called tumor Schirrus by reason the Greeke word Schirr signifieth hardnes Schirre is a tumor hard with litle or no dolor or feeling whereof there are two kindes the one is called the true Schirre exquisite the other is falles The true is as ye haue head the false is altogether without feeling yet hardly may it bee perceiued There is an other sort of Schirre ingendred of a phlegmātick thick tough matter and is composed of an humor thick and cold The cause is a cold drie humor either of matter melancholick phlegmatick or both for first when the blood is made in the liuer there is ingendred in it a malancholicke humor which is like the dreggs of wine which afterwards is drawen to the milt for the nouriture thereof specially by the vsage of such meates as are apt to make the same and the milt weake to draw the same then it goeth into the veines and is mingled with the blood which by there vertue expuitrix expell it by the Hemorrhoides or varices sometime disperseth it through the skin and breedeth the Morphew or Leprosie Sometime it is caste on the most weake partes and according to the place and qualities of the humor breedeth eyther Schirre or Cancer If it bee cast on any drie part as ligamentes tendons ioyntes ends of the muscles or in the milt kidneis lyuer or matrix it causeth Schir If it bee cast on the softe partes as partes glandules as the pappes the emunctoires and face and the priuie partes it maketh cancer The cause also maye bee sadnesse suppression of the Hemorrhoides and menstruous purgations also by too much applying of cold medicines on tumors as erisipelas or phlegmon for by that meanes the most subtill doth resolue and the rest doth become hard The signes are these the tumor is hard and groweth slowly of colour liuide when it commeth of melancholie when of phlegme it is white and when of both humors together it is of a mixed colour as liuide and white and insensible because the humor is so thicke and drie which closeth the conduites of the nerues so that the animall spirite is inclosed in such sort that the part hath no feeling Those which haue no feeling are altogether incureable those that haue any feeling if they be taken in the beginning may be helped in some sort but hardly those which come to suppuration degendreth easily into schirre The Cure consisteth in three thinges first in diet tending to heat and humiditie abstayning from anger sadnesse feare and venerian exercise the second point consisteth in euacuating the matter antecedent by purgations bleeding by prouocation of the flowers hemerhoides the third point is to euacuate that which is contayned in the place which is done by things remollientes and resoluentes like as the grease of hennes cockes calues or geese also gūme armoniac stirax galbanum rootes of althea lillies camomill of these we make liniments and cataplasmes also the emplaister of Diachilon magnum et album de vigo with double mercurie Galen commendeth goates dirt to bee an excellent remedie to discusse tumors schirrous Sometimes it happeneth in the tendons and then it is healed by perfumes made thus Take the stone called pyr●●es or any other stone that is red hotte and quench it in strong vineger and then receiue the smoake on the sore part then apply remollientes sometime after the perfume the gūme ammoniac dissolued in vineger is good and must be vsed with great discretion If none of these serue and it tende to suppuration we must not vse too hotte remedies to stirre it by reasō it degendreth easily into Cancer for the which haue recourse to the next Chapter In some partes it may bee cut so yee cut all and leaue nothing adherent to the whole partes nor no roote of it For the great fluxe of bloud which happhneth either knit the veines or staunch it with canters actuall the which is dangerous when it occupieth the internall partes for the which Hippocrates forbiddes to seeke the exquisite cure of the occult Cancers The thirteenth Chapter of Cancer which the Greekes call Carsimonia VVE must vnderstand that Cancer is comprehended vnder the tumor Schirrous yet there is great difference for in Cancer there is great dolor punction and pulsation which is not in schirre it groweth sooner and hath great veines about it Cancer in Latine is the sore of a beast Guido saith it is called Cancer either by reason it sticketh to the parte like the fish Cancer or because it is round and hath veines about it like the feete of a Crabbe and is also like vnto it being liuide of colour as also because it gnaweth eateth and goeth like this fish It is a tumor inequall hauing the sides hard eminent turned and dolorous There are two kindes of it vlcered and not vlcered the vlcered is immobill hot by accident hauing many veines about it like the feete of Cancer the not vlcered is called Cancer occult The cause of it is a melancholicke humor drie not onely in the part as schirre but also in the veines about it the which by continuation of time maketh it more sharpe and maligne whereof commeth Cancer vlcered also euill diet vsing of thinges that breed thicke corrupted bloud with other such causes as ye haue heard in the precedent Chapter the debilitie of the milte and weakenes of the part These tumors for the most part are ingendred in womens pappes chiefly in those who haue great very fleshie pappes by reason they are glandulous and colde of themselues they breede also in the conduites of women lippes nose eyes eares roofe of the mouth legges handes and fundament by reason those partes are weake haue little naturall heate The signes are dolor tumor and they seeme soft but in touching are hard the vlcers inequal sordides the sides swelled horrible to looke on pale coloured euill sauoured by reason of the humor which is most sordide and stinking As for the iudgement those in the stomacke head shoulders necke and vnder the armes are all incureable because these places can not be cut for the great fluxe of bloud which may happen in them Some are little vlcered some much some recent others inueterate some in one parte and some in another some more maligne then others and for the most part are incureable It hath diuers denominations according
most part in the dry neruous parts but chiefly on the head and ioyntes on the hands feete The causes are strokes and wearines of the ioynts such other as ye haue heard in A●●●roma as also the signes The cure first consisteth in good diet eschewing al meates which ingender grosse humors eate of things of good digestion abstaine from drinking of water purge bleede haunt no humide place as for the p●rticular remedies we must vnderstand that this humor is sometime inclosed in the membraine in that procede as in A●●●●oma sometime it is not inclosed and thē we may applye a cake of leade rubbed with quicksiluer or an emplaster resolutine made of galbanum ammoniac oyle of lillies and bayes brimstone virioll roman calcined Sometimes it is with corruption of the bone in that case the humor must be euacuated and the exfoliatiō of bone procured as ye shal heare in the chapter of vlcers with corruptiō of the bone For diuers other diseases of the head haue your recourse to heurnius demorbis capitis The third Chapter of the tumor in the eye called Lippitudo and Opthalmia in Greeke OPthalmia is an inflamatiō of the whole eye but chiefly of the membraine called coniunctiue with great rednes dolor The cause is either externall or internall the externall as strokes heate dust winde great cold rubbing or some moate in the eye the internall ●ause is defluxion of the humors being nere to the braines as also the veins externe interne of the head wherof procedeth fluxiō also the sanguine humor chollerick or phlegmatick which ascēdeth to the head The signs are manifest like as great inflamatiō rednes heat of the eies tēples dolor repletiō of the veins hardnes this sicknes hath 4. degrees like as other tumors hapneth oftē to yōg childrē others who haue weake eies which is the cause that they are subiect to the fluxiō of humors The iudgmēts are the matter of this is somtime hot otherwhiles cold and those which happē in winter are the worse thē those which happē in Sōmer if they be neglected euill handled there follow euill accidēts as spots rupture of the cornea and diuers others If the dolor be vehement it is dāgerous for corruptiō corrosion of the cornea As for the curatiō there are 3. things to be obserued the first is good diet eate litle chiefly at night abstaine frō al vaporous things al euil digestiō fishes fruits spices salt humide things abide neither in great darknes nor too much light for great light dissipeth the spirit sometime causeth blindnes as we read of the soldiors of Xenophanes who through going long in the snow became almost al blind Also Dioni●●●s tirāt of Sicil made blind his prisōers after this sort first he imprisōed thē long in a very dark place thē he brought them suddēly into a great light so made thē all blind All colors are not expediēt for the sight the white dissipeth the spirits draweth them to it the black maketh them too dul there is n● color that cōforteth the sight but grene blew violet which nature sheweth vs in the compositiō of the eye for the tunic v●e a sheweth the greene blewe of the part that looketh to the humor custalline Endeuor to be laxatiue walke not too much beware of al perturb●ons of the spirit from smoake and dust and blowing of Alchymie for both it hurteth the eye and consumeth the substance maketh men miserable both in bodie and goods hold vp thy head and abstayne from wine and women and such like as yee may perceiue by these verses of the learned Gordoniu Haec occulis multum sol puluis fumus et aestus Ventus cum fletu vina Venusque nocent Acria ne mandas nec quae sunt plena vaporum Nec caepas lentes allia po●ra fabas The second intention consisteth in euacuating diuerting the humor by pilles clisters bleeding of the veine Cephalicke ventouseing on the shoulders frictions on the thighes legges and extremities also by opening the veine and arters of the temples The third intention is in the topicall remedies as collyrs of diuers sorts according to the diuorsitie of the degree and time of the apostume as in the beginning of the inflamation take plantaine and rose water of each halfe an ounce two whites of egges and a little fennell water womens milke the mu●ilages of hipsileon with a little trochistes of rasis sine opio a litilt caiphure put of thiis in the eye and at night make a cataplasme of an apple rosted and lay on the eye or this remedie which I haue often prooued not onely in the opthalmie but diuers other maladies of the eyes Take two ounces of white wine as much rose water and euphrage halfe a crownes waight of Tutie prepared as much of aloes 3. or 4. leaues of Massi put all in a violl and stoppe it close set it three weckes in the sunne instill thereof in the eyes In the meane time vse emplaisters on the temples of mastick de bolo et contra rupturam and such like to stay the fluxion For the great dolor vse the roasted apple with a little womens milk or a little plantaine water put betweene two clothes likewise for the vehement dolor the bloud of a pigeon or henne vnder the winges instilled is verie good there are diuers other remedies whereof we shall intreat more at length in the poore mans guide like as also of Egilops and Enchilops with diuers other maladi-s of the eyes The fourth Chapter of the tumors in the eares THere come many grieuous diseases in the eares sometime outwardly and sometime inwardly occupying sometime the whole eare sometime a part thereof The cause is an hotte humor and biting descending from the nerues of the fift coniugation with the dura mater dispersed in the conduite of the eare sometime a vaporous spirite cold thicke humor which maketh difficultie of hearing and sometime deafenes The Signes are manifest The iudgementes young people are more grieuously tormented then olde and die often afore it come to suppuration and that within 7. dayes by reason of the great accidents as feuer lightnesse sounding In old folkes it commeth oft to suppuration yet the dolor is verie vehement by reason of the nerue of the fift coniugation also for the membranes and propinquitie of the braines nature hath giuen it an exquisite feeling The cure consisteth in remedies vniuersall and particular vniuersall as good dyet abstayning from wine and all strong drinke and fumie bleeding of the veine Cephalicke and vsing of clysters or some gentle medicines according to the humor as ye haue heard in Opthalmi As for particular remedies they differ not much from others except that we vse no repercussiues abstayne from all cold remedies by reason of
the nerue which is deepe and hollowe If the dolor bee vehement with heate vse oyle of roses mirtles and cidoniorum with a little vineger mixe all together and drop a little in the eare cattes water distilled is good as saith Quersitanus If it tend to suppuration handle it as other apostumes The fifth Chapter of the Tumor that commeth behinde the eares called Parotides NAture hath placed by the rootes of the eares certaine little glands to the ende they may receiue the vennemous matter deposed by the braines Parotides is an in●●amation or apostume of the glands behind the eares The cause is the humor which easily descendeth from the head partly because nature hath ordeined them for receptacles as ye haue heard and by reason they are soft colde and the passages large that bring the humor Sometime the cause commeth of the whole bodie like as in crise of feuer it may come of any one of the foure humors or all mixed together which may easily be knowne by the accidents The signes are tumor dolor vehement feuer pulsation with such other as yee haue heard in tumors The Iudgementes are that those by crisis without signe of maturation are euill and if it goe to the internall partes it is for the most part mortall as saith Auicen The Cure generall is to vse clisters bleeding in the veine Cephalicke vsing good dyet eating thinges of light digestion not vaporous abstayning from strong drinke the particular remedies differ not from the cure of other apostumes except that we vse no repercussiues but onely maturatiues attractiues and anodiues and some digerents in the beginning like as oyle of lillies Iris camomill bitter almondes with sheepes wooll or a cataplasme of digerent hearbes It is best not to abide the perfect suppuration but so soone as may be to cause it open for by that meanes the venemous vapor doth dissippe the dolor ceaseth and nature doth more easily discharge It may bee opened by canter or lancet but beware of the nerue veine and arters for the great accidentes that happen Being openeed it must be cured by suppuratiues mundificatiues incarnatiues and desiccatiues as ye haue heard in others The sixt Chapter of the Tumors in the nose called Sarcoma Ozena and Polypus THe nose is a part of the bodie by the which the braines doth discharge the excrements in the which do chaūce three kindes of maladies yet not much different the first is called Sarcoma which is an excrescence of fleshe against nature the second is called Ozena which is most dangerous ill sauoured the third is called Polypus which differeth not frō Sarcoma sauing that it is not so great Polypus is a tumor which proceedeth of the bone ethomides and sticketh fast to it The cause is rotten humor thicke and viscous which commeth from the head The signes are manifest to the sight and by the narration of the sicke The Iudgementes are these that which is hard and blacke must not be touched that which is soft may bee healed if the excrescence be white and soft without dolor it is easie to heale if it be redde and browne with dolor it is very difficill if it occupie both sides of the nose either the sicke sleepeth with open mouth or else he suffoketh The cure is most diff●cill as I haue oft seene and better it were to vse remedies palliatiues then to aduenture any perfect cure yet the cure in so much as may be is by vniuersall remedies as purging and bleeding and in good dyet Fuch●ns counselleth to rubbe the head with such things as haue vertue to corroborate drie the braines The particular remedies shall be according to the Tumor which is sometime hard otherwhiles soft the soft must be taken away with instrument or canter or some causticke pouder as pouder vitrioll mercurie arsenit allom spuma aeris atramentum sutorium ye may mixe any of these pouders with some vnguēt anodine or honey vse de●ensiues for the inflamation vnguent pompholigs with a little balaust is good Also this water Rec. bolaustiorum corticis malorum granatorum an lib. 1. gelangae caudae equinae linguae passerinae et her●iariae an manip di radic bis tortae 4. vnc sumitatū piri siluest manip di contundantur simul distilleutur fia●●aqua de qua frequenter abluat nares adde to it a little Allum If eyther this or the other which is harde degender into an vlcer cancrous touch it not but vse such remedies as ye shal heare in the vlcer Cancrons The seauenth Chapter of the tumor in the mouth called Vunla or Columella THe mouth as sayth Gordon is the instrument of voice in beastes and speaking in men in the which happen diuers grieuous and dangerous passions but we wil intreat of those which are moste daungerous beginning with Vunla which is called in our tongue the pap of the mouth Nature being prouident that nothing should offend hath placed in the roufe of the mouth this little peece of fleshe for diuers reasons first that we may pronounce and s●eake clearer for which cause it is called plectrum vocis also that the aire enter not in the trachearter till the force and impetuositie of the cold be corrected for we see in those who wāt it haue both deformity of speach refrigiratiō on the lightes Vunla is an inflamation or aposthume either in forme long and is called Columella that is like a piller or like vnto the vine berrie called Vua The cause is eyther interne or externe the interne are hot humors which come from the head and cause an inflamation also ascēding from the stomacke as happeneth in rotten feuers in like manner of abundance of blood The cause externe is cold Cough excessiue eating and drinking at vnacostomed howers chiefly at night The signes are manifest to the sight chiefly in pressing downe the tongue accompanyed with dolor and feuer paine to swallow any thing the sick thinketh that he hath alwayes something in his mouth The iudgmentes are that sometime it falleth so much that it filleth vp the whole throate so the sick suffofoketh in case it be not quickely cutte if it be cutte altogether the patient waxeth dumbe or at least speaketh so as he may not be vnderstoode and his drinke doth auoyde by the nose which accidents I did see in a Chanon of S. Honorie in Paris who was my patient The Cure consisteth first in the forme of dyet tending to colde and drie vsing meates of light digestion drinking no strong not fumie drinke often vsing of clisters and bleeding in both the armes if ye perceiue plenitude ventouses on the shoulders and opening the head with sca●rifications frictions on the necke opening of the veines vnder the toungue The particular remedies shall onely be plantaine rose or common water with a little vineger
wash thy mouth therewith holding it a while therein Or this take barley plantaine shepheardes purse the barke of the pomegarnet of each one a little and seethe them in water putting thereto after it be strayned a little syrrop of violettes or roses and vse it as the former Or this pouder made of Allum balaust terra sigillata roses redde sugar mixed all together and put in a little instrument meete for that purpose to apply it to the sore the like may bee done with a little pepper and salte brayed together as also water of allom If by none of these the greatnesse doth diminish it must either be cutte with sheeres or burned with can●er actuall or consumed with causticke medicaments like as oyle of v●trioll strong water pouder of coters The best remedie which I haue found in this disease is cutting of it with the sheeres thereafter wash the mouth with oxicrate or some astringent water or redde wine mixed with allom water Sometime it tendeth to suppuration which if it happen cure it with gargarismes and such other remedies expedient for vlcers in these partes if all this fayleth haue recourse to the poore mans guide The eight Chapter of the Tumor of the of the Amigdalles called by the Greekes Paris●himia by Latines Tonsilla AT the roote of the tongue Nature hath placed two little glandes like vnto almondes for which cause they are called Amigdalles are there placed for diuers reasons but chiefely for receyuing the humiditie of the braines which if it fell onely on the toungue would trouble the speech and also that the toungue should be moistned with some humiditie otherwise it should become drie in speaking The Cause is great aboundance of viscous humiditie mordicant which commeth from the head drinking of strong and fumie drinke walking morning and euening when the dewe is fallen also great aboundance of bloud and sometime in children through the bitternesse of the milke The signes are euident to the sight chiefely in pressing downe the tongue The Iudgementes are dolor feuer accompanied with such inflamation which causeth the sicke to suffocke The Cure consisteth in good dyet eate little and of light digestion abstayne from all strong drinke as in other inflamations vse clisters bleeding in the arme as also the veines vnder the tongue vse ventouses and frictions on the necke gargarismes refrigeratiues and desiccatiues If it apostume as often happeneth it must be opened with a lancet if the Tumor doth so augment that the sicke is in danger to suffocke thē thou shalt make incision on the trachearter betwixt the thirde and fourth ring cutting onely the membrane that holdeth them together and not the proper substance of the cartilage so the ayre shall auoid put in a tente of siluer that is hollow into it till the inflamation be past thereafter close vp the wound This was practised by Andrew Scot one of the King of Scotlands Chirurgions in Paris most cūningly To doe this operation thou shalt holde backeward the patients head lift vp the skinne with the hand and cutte it in length so the membrane shall bee discouered then make your incision with a Bistorie in the said place during which time vse externally medicamets about the necke that are made of barley flower lint seede and fenegrec with such like as shall be found most expedient according to the degree of the maladie It is good to vse this remedie which hath vertue to close the soft partes drie vp the pituitous humor which is fallen on the part and hath the vertue to soften the glands interne as also to loose and is thus made Rec. nidi hirundinis 3. vnc pulueris nucum cupressi 1. vnc rosarum 1. vnc se accipiantur cum oximelite fiat cataplasma This operation of incision is very dangerous if it bee not well made by reason of the fluxe of bloud which often doth happen as also for the nerues which passe that way I cured an apothecarie in Paris after this method and he healed sometime it degenereth into Schirre and then it must not be touched but by remedies palliatiues The ninth Chapter of the Tumor in the throat called by the Greeks Schinanch by Latines Angina or Strangulatio ANgina is an apostume or inflamation of the interior muscles of the throat whereof there are foure kindes the first is great inflamation in the throat the second is a humor contayned behinde the Amigdalles which hindereth swallowing sometime suffocketh the third is great tumor and inflamation toward the chinne both externally and internally the fourth kind is when the vertebres of the necke goe out of their place whereupon the tongue retireth frō the proper scituation with difficultie of breathing The cause is either great cold ayre vsage of colde drinke also it proceedeth of multitude of humors not of all the body but of the head and partes neere to it The Signes are difficultie of breathing feuer dolor in the throat The Iudgements are these if it come sodainly through a feuer without any apparance outwardly in the neck it is mortal The Cure consisteth in remedies vniuersall and particular the generall shall bee in ordering good fourme of life in the sixe vnnaturall things eate little drinke ptisan sleepe little vse clisters and some light purgations bleede in the veines cephalicks in both the armes also in the veines vnder the tongue The particuler remedies are to vse frictions ventou●es with scarifications on the shoulders application of hot bread to diuertise the humor with this liment on the neck vnguent refrigeratine oyle of camomill Lillies and violets with a little hennes greace therafter apply sheepes woll on it as it cōmeth frō the sheepe in the meane time gargarize the mouth with plantiue water vineger or whay or with this that followeth take barley plantine pimpernell chereuill and seeth altogether after the ●bullition put to it a little Diamoron or honey of Roses Diuers other remedies are set downe by Paulus Mesues Or this Re. aquae solani plantaginis caprifolij an lib. se aceti vnc se diamoron vnc 3. fiat gargarisma If it turn to suppuration vse this gargarisme take the rootes of mallowes and althea sorrell and lyn-seede of euerye one a little boyle it in Cowes milke putting thereto a little of the musilages of Psilion which thou shalt hold a certaine space in the mouth the matter being become to maturitie open it with a lancet thereafter this cleansing gargarisme composed of decoction of barley honey and sirupe of roses being cleansed ad to the said decoctiō a litle allum balanse and mirrhe sicatrize the wound All this time kepe good diet and abstaine frō womē beware the matter take not the course to the lyghtes which is most dangerous If any bone or pycke bee in the throate ye shall vse the remedie set down in the poore
mans guide which is most excellent and easie to be had The tenth Chpter of the tumor which commeth at the roote of the teeth called Epulides EPulides is a tumor or excrescence of flesh which commeth at the rootes of the teeth or betweene them in great quantitie chiefly about the teeth called mol●res it augmenteth by little and little The cause is a sharpe biting humor which commeth from the head stomacke as chaunceth in putride feuers by the euill vapors which ascendeth and corrodeth the gummes it happeneth also after vlcers in the mouth chiefly to those who haue beene ill cured of the Neopolitane sickenesse The Signes are manifest to the sight touch as saith Auicen The Iudgmentes are that sometime it is as great as an egge sometime it groweth to both the iawes in such sorte that the mouth cannot open The topical remedies consist in vsage of thinges discutient as decoction seminis lini such like sometime it suppureth and then cure it as in others ye haue heard Sometime it neither suppureth nor discusseth and then yee shall proceede as I did in Paris to a Gentlemans boy who had his mouth so growen together on both sides that nothing almost could enter therein and it was in this wise First I made incision and cutte the most part of the excrescence so consumed the rest with causticke powders and produced the cicatrice and he healed To others I haue knitte the excrescence with a threede the which I finde more sure and not to be feared neither for fluxe of bloud nor inflammation that which remained after the threede was fallen I consumed it with pouder of mercurie allom vitrioll aqua fortis and such like Sometime this Tumor is hard and schirrous for the which ye must vse palliatiues as in the Chapter of Schirre As for the maladies of the teeth the way to correct and helpe their deformitie to drawe the corrupted and put artificiall in their place ye shall heare at length in the Treatise of the poore mans guide The eleuenth Chapter of the Tumor which happeneth vnder the tongue called Batrachos or Rannuculus RAnnuculus is a tumor of the veines vnder the tongue and is sometime of such greatnesse that yee would thinke it another tongue this happeneth of● to children and old folk so that the voice is intercepted The cause is a slyme pituitous humor which disc●●deth from the head and when the tumor is excrescence of flesh the cause is as of other excresc●nces It is cōmonly wrapped in a chest or little membraine like as At●●●●ma The sig●es are euident and it is in coulor like a frogge called R●na wherof it taketh the name with gret tumor in the veins of the tongue which suffoketh the sick In opening of it the sick somtime becommeth madde as I did once see Iaques Guilmio Chirurgian reporteth to haue seene it foure times As for the cure that which happeneth in childrē is healed with gargarismes resoluentis and iucisiues in old folke the veines vnder the tongue must be opened If the ranuill be great it must bee cut drawen away the superfluitie which remaineth shal be dried with sall ammoniac flos aeris such like Sometime we cut it with a bistorie and apply ca●●er● actuals As for the litle pustulles which come in the mouth that the Latins cal Aphthae as also diuers others yee shall heare at length in my Treatise of the deliuerie of women where I intreate of those diseases which commonly happen to yong children The twelth Chapter of the tumor in the neck called by the Latins Stuma or Scrofulae STruma is an inflamation of bloud and pituite in the soft and glandulous partes as vnder the chyn and oxters on the papps and b●tweene the thigh and the body and may happen in any part of the body The matter that is ingendred of is a rotten thick matter congealed blood like glandes The cause are falles strokes or humor pituitous mixed with melancholie also drinking of euil waters where through many were infected at the siege of Paris also the retentio of the excremēts of the braines which should auoide by the muoth nose eares eies This disease happeneth oftenest to yong children both for the rariti● of the skin and gulosite for the which some cal them Scrofulae by the simtlitude of a greedie beast called Scrofa The signes are apparent to the sight in the parts where they are sometime few in number sometime many and are couered membranes like At●●●oma Steotoma The Iudgements are that those which are superficiall mobill and not many in number may resolue vnmoueable hard maling doe not resolue or hardly receiueth any curation those that are great and neare the tracharter are difficill in opening by reason of the nerues recurrent which being cut the sick waxeth dum they are also difficill when they are accōpanied with veines for feare of flux of blood The cure cōsisteth in remedies vniuersals p●rticuler as in good regiment eate litle and of light digestion abstaine frō such things as ingender grosse humors purge oft blede in both thy armes ha●nt no humide places the drink shal be composed after this forme take Scrofularia 3. parts Scolupendula 2. parts Pilosella and Brassica of ech a litle the toots of Reddish and Aristolochia a little seeth them al in white wine with a little honey till the halfe be consumed of this ye shall vse 3. ounces in the morning euery 2. daies once I haue vsed to diuers with good seccesse a decoction laxatiue the space of 15. or 20. dais also my confectiō set down in the poore mans guide The p●rticuler remedies are to rubbe the part with a little salt butter fryed in a pan with a litle vineger till it grow black some vse the emplaster de vigo with mercurie also the cataplasme set downe in the Chapter of Paristhimia If it tend to suppuration vse this take the leaues and roots of mallowes lillies of ech 2. ounces leaues of camomill one hādful make a decoctiō to the which adde the flower of beanes lyn-seed and ●enigreck an 3. ounces swines greace that is flesh a pond make cataplasme putting to it a litle oyle of ●rin and lillies this ●ath the verru both to digest ●ype Whē it is opened cure it as ye haue heard in others Sometimes children hauing scabs in the head the brains humide by wrong lying taking cold in the night haue the glandes tumified for remedy wherof apply oile of camomill anissedes swete almōds with a litle hennes greace butter If the tumor be hot add to it oile of roses violetts it is good also to rubbe it with fasting spittle till it growe hotte I haue heard of sundrie that haue beene cured perfectly by George Boswell a very learned Chirurgion of S. Iohns towne in
Scotland who is most skilfull in our Arte. The thirteenth Chapter of the tumor in the necke called Bruncoceli or Hernia gutturis THis Tumor which the Greekes call Broncon is rounde great ingendred of the humor Phlegmaticke betwix the trachearter and the skinne sometime occupying the most parte of the necke of the which there are diuers kindes according to the matter contained therein sometime like at●●r●ma other whiles like a●enfrisma The cause is not different from those that it is like vnto yet some are external some internal as coldayre drinking of euill water as those who dwell in Piemont who are much subiect because the most parte of their drinke is melted snowe also the retention of the purgations in women and great aboundance of the humor melancholicke The Signes are most euident to the sight The Iudgementes are that those that come by nature are incureable and those which are like a●e●frisma must not be touched those that are verie great aocompanied with veines are very dangerous in no wise to be touched those that are tractable must be opened by canter or lancet eschewing alwayes the veines The cure is like vnto at●●r●ma in the beginning it is good to apply a cake of leade rubbed with quicke siluer or the emplaister de vigo with mercurie and rubbing it with thy hand till it grow redde and vse things to prouoke spitting for the which it shall be expedient to vse fiue or sixe graines of the arabicke pouder in the meane time vse good dyet and thinges to cause loosenes of the bellie bleede in both armes if the maladie requireth Ye shall heare of this at more length in the Treatise of childe-birth by reason sometime it happeneth in time of trauailing The fourtenth Chapter of the tumor called Ane●●risma ANe●●isme is an tumor sofr to the touch the which is ingendred of bloode and spirrit vnder the skin and muscles which happeneth in diuers partes of the bodye chiefly in the neck for which cause we speake of it in this place The cause is eyther dilatation incision or ruption of the arter which often chaunceh to women in the time of their birth to water men and others who vse violent labour through crying or greate violence which dilateth the arter The signes are this tumor in pressing on it with thy finger thou shalt feele great pulsasion and the tumor of the same coulor as the rest of the skin it is soft in touch and yeildeth to the finger by reason the spirrit retireth into the arter and hauing taken away the finger it doth returne presently and in returning making a noyse by reason of the blood and spirit which returneth at a litle incision this happeneth when the Ane●frisme is done by An●stomis that is being opened and cut When the arier is riuen as happeneth in women and those of great exercise there issueth foorth more abundance of blood thā spirrit and is more harde than the other and maketh lesse noyse in retiring Those which are superficiall in the exterior partes as the head legges and armes may bee knit and are cureable those which are profunde and interior as in the brest as of happenth to those who sweate excessiuely of the Venerian sicknes also those in the neck vnder the armes and flanckes and where there is great dilatation of great arters are not cureable but death ensueth in few dayes If the tumor be opened the patient dieth presentlye this happeneth oftentimes by the vnskilfulnes of the Barbors and Apothecaries that meddle therewith and ruine a number of people through their ignorance as I haue often seene for such people esteeme all tumors that are soft to be opened as common Aposthumes In Paris 1590. there happened such a disease to one called Captane Tayle who was one of the chiefest Captaines amongst the Spaniardes on the right side of his neck for the which I as Chirurgian ordinarie to the regiment was sent for found that it should not be touched of which opiniō was also my companyon Andrew Scot a man verye expert in his art who was at that time in great practise at Paris and now Chirurgiā to the King of Scotland I ordained remedies to let the encreasing of it which receipt of mine being sent to the Apothecarie he thought it not meete medicine for an aposthume as he termed it he sent for his brother the glorious Barbor who seing the Captaine found no difficultie but sware with great othes that he had charmes for al sotes and the Apothecarie sware that hee had salues for al sores so presētly opened it with a lancet ro auoide the matter as they thought which being the spirrit bold came forth with such violence that the Captaine died presētly I doubt not but that in these countries there be many such things cōmitted by such ignorāts so destroy many people I vse alwayes in such chiefly in the neck vnder the arms and in the paps these remedies that I prescribed to the Spaniard that is first to draw blod in both the arms next to apply on the sore cerat Galen or de bolo or this Ree pulueris suhtilissimi boli armenici sanguinis draconis myrtilorū lapidis calaminarii in aceto extincti absinthei an vnc 1. cum cerato refrigerātis Galeni quantū sufficit fiat vnguentū siue magdaleon For the same effect I vse a cake of lead rubbed with quicksiluer these things will hinder the growing for a time although it be nere the noble parts If it be in the extremities as legges or armes they may liue a long time by the vsage of the aforesaid remedies I knew a womā in Paris who had one very gret in her thigh liued 10. yeres if it be litle and superficial I find no better thā cataplasme made of claret wine with the crops leaues of cypres which I haue often vsed on the arme when the arter hath been opened in stead of the veine Otherwise I knitt them after this forme first I incise the skin long-wise next discouer the arter and being discouered I passe a needle with a double thread vnder it two inches aboue the incision or ruption of the arter and thē knitts it with a double knot voydes awaye the blood contained and cureth the wound according to the estate it is in The fiftenth chapter of tumors or aposthumes in the paps THe papps which are part is glandulous ordained by nature partly for the decoration of women and partly to be answerable to the 2. chābers of the matrix are ordained for the generation of milk are subiect to diuers diseases as other parts of like substance here we wil only intreat of the aposthume which hapneth in them The cause is such as ye haue heard in other aposthumes and the retensiō of the purgations also abundāce of thick and knotty milk The signes are such as ye haue
heard in others as dolor pricking tensiō rednes feuer The cure consisteth in vniuer●all perticuler remidies vniuersall as purgatiōs bleeding chiefly of the veines saphens vētosing friction on the thighes with other cōuenient remedies for the prouocatiō of the purgations as ye shall heare at length in the treatise of the diseases in womē Vse good diet tending to humidity The perticular remedies differ not frō others sauing that we vse familiar weake repercussiues because it is nere to the noble parts in the beginning it shal be good to foment the pappe with hot water vineger oyle of roses or this take the flowers of camomill lyn-seede fenegreck of ech half a pound the iuyce of mallowes roses and plantine of each three ounces vineger two ounces wet a cloth therein and lay on the sore If it tend to maturation vse this the crum of white bread and beane meale of ech halfe an ounce flower of Fenegreck half an ounce Mallowes althea and lillie roots of ech a little seeth them in milk putting therto the yolke of an egge fresh butrer a little saffion when it is come to suppuration open it with canter or lancet vacuate the humor and cure it as other apostumes make a bandage to holde it vp and labour not with the arme on the sore side for that maketh attraction of milke to it The sixteene Chapter of the Tumor in the thorax c●lled Pleurisie PLeurisie is an inflammation and tumor of the membranes which knitte couer the ribbes whereof there are two sortes false and true the false is outward in the muscles of the short ribbes the true is that which cometh in the membranes which knitte the ribbes The Cause is externe and interne the externe is great heate or colde also great vsage of strong wine or very cold water violent exercise or colde ayre after great heat the internall cause is great repletion of all the body foure humors but chiefly the bloud and choler which make the most subtill part of the bloud ascend from the veine caue to the veine azigos thereafter in the muscles veines membranes inte●●stals The Signes as saith Galen are great dolor from the shoulders to the nethermost ribbe punction in the side continuall feuer difficultie of respiring coughing hard pulse great alteration with want of appetite The Iudgementes are these that which commeth on the right side is not so dangerous as on the left if the spittle be blacke liuide and viscous with continual cough and vehement dolor long continuing it is mortall If the vrine bee thicke blewe or blacke it is mortall if the cough bee very drie and cease not it is an ●uill signe If the spittle be white light equal with little cough and the patient sleepeth well good appetite and the vrine redde coloured it is a good signe The Cure consisteth in vniuersall and particular remedies vniuersall as clisters bleeding in both the armes chiefly in the side opposite to the sore keeping good dyet abstayning from all strong drinke women violent exercises perturbations of the minde the particular shall be cataplasmes and liniment●s of flowers of camomill melllot annise seede lin● seede and fen●gre● if the dolor bee great and doth continue Fuchius counselleth frequent applycation of ventouses with scarrification of the parte affected If by these remedies the paine doth not cease neither that ye perceiue any euacuation of the humor neither by the mouth vrine nor fundament it is to be suspected to turne into Empiem which is a collection of matter betweene the ribbes and the region of the lightes sometime with corruption hereof for the which we make incision either by canter or lancet but rather by the canter for neither doth it close so soone nor is so dolorous the opening shall be betweene the third and fourth of the true ribbes beginning at the nethermost and so counting vpwarde sixe inches from the ridge of the backe If yee see tumor eminent in any place of the thorax open it in the most conuenient place Hippocrates counselleth to decouer the third ribbe and bore it with a trepan to let out the humor when it is open put in a hollowe tente either of siluer or leade let not all the matter auoyde at one time but by little and little and cure it as other apostumes The seuenteenth Chapter of the Tumor in the nauell called in Greeke ●●c●mphalon or Eminentia vmbilici VVHen the Peritone is dilated or riuen the Nauell doth swell or tumifie in such sort that sometime it riueth the cause is often in the midwife that either knitteth too neare or too long by the neere knitting either it slippeth breaketh or causeth conuulsion other grieuous diseases by the too long knitting it giueth place to the intestine or ●mentum or some bloud or fleshe waterie or windie vapors doe occupie the eminent place The Signes are knowne by the diuersitie of the matter contayned therein as if the omentum it is softe and in cullour not different from the rest of the flesh if the intestine the tumor is softe and inequall and returneth into the capacitie with a noyse if humiditie or vapours the signes are as in waterie and windie tumors if bloud which happeneth through the infecting of some veine or arter the signes are as in aue●●risma if excrescence of flesh the tumor is hard and obeyeth not easily The Iudgements are these when the dilation is great it healeth not easily and often riueth by some violence or coughing The Cure is first in good regiment tending to sobrietie abstayning from all statuous meates and such as ingender crudities little mouing and such like Particular remedies consist in emplaisters astringent or the emplaister set downe in the practise of Petrus de Angilla also fomentations astringent and bandages chiefely in the beginning If that helpe not reduce the puddinges and quafe and cause the sicke to hold in his breath till ye knit the production let it fall of it selfe and produce the cicatrice If it bee riuen by violence or great cough that the intestine commeth out as happened to a woman whom I cured in Paris yee shall inlarge the wounde with a conuenient instrument reduce the intestine and vse the sutor pellitor and cure it as other woundes If there bee winde and water in the place cure it as ye shall heare more at large set downe in the Chapter of Hernes The eighteene Chapter of the Tumor in the belly called Hydr●psie HIdropsie is a Tumor against nature ingendred of great quantitie of water winde or phlegme sometime dispersed through the whole bodie and is called vniuersall otherwhiles in some part thereof is called particular most commonly in the capacitie of the Peritone of the which there are three kindes to witte ascites timpanites and anasarca Ascites is a maladie that causeth the bellie and legges
to swell through a waterie humor the rest of the body is small and leane Tympanites is a maladie in the which is more flatuositie and lesse humor and in touching soundeth like a drumme Anasarca or L●ncophlegmatia is a disease wherewith the whole bodie but chiefely the priuie partes are swollen with a pituitous humor white and clare accompanied with feuer The cause is either externe or interne externe as stroakes falles heate colde fluxe of bloud or great and long running of the hemerhoides or through dissenteria also great vsage of humide meates as sewens euill water and such like whereof we had good proofe at the siege of Paris also euill regiment Plato saith that in the time of Apollo and Aesculapius neither caiter nor hydropsie nor many other diseases which now raigne were knowne and that through their great sobrietie The cause interne commeth chiefely of the vertue alteratrix and concoctrix of the liuer in like manner apostumes of the liuer also passions of the stomacke through the vice of the veines meseraicks intestine matrix bladder lightes milte and kidne●s The Iudgementes are that all hydropsies after a hotte feuer or in the feuer are euill if after apostume of the liuer it receiueth no curation if by vsing remedies the sicke groweth better within 3. or 4. daies is ill againe he healeth not if hee become laxatiue and haue no ease of his paine it is mortall if the spittle the breath and extremities do stink they are signes of death if flux with difficultie of respration he shall die within three dayes of all sorts ascites is the worst those that are yong and robust vsing exercise and if the humor be not putrified may be cured For the cure hereof there are 3. intentiōs the first is good diet tending to hot and drie of good nourriture and light digestion it is good not to drinke at all but if it be any let it be a little old man I knewe a man that was cured by abstayning from drinke halfe a yeare Anthonius Bene uenius reporteth that he knew men cured by abstayning from drink a yeare without vsing any other remedies Let their bred be of barley wherwith shal be mingled the pouder of wormwood annisseede betonie calamint calamus aromaticus succorie fennell which thinges may also bee put in their pottage drinke asses goates milke is also good The second intention is with fomentions and vnguentes resotiues as ye haue heard in Edema The third intention is to corroborate the intemperie of the lyuer as is ample set downe by Albucrasis Some counsell to make incisiō the which I haue often seene but with euill successe therefore not to bee vsed as being reiected by Celsus Paulus Trallianus Gordonius and others The manner of incision is thus make the incision with a bistorie by the nauell but 3. fingers vnder it towards the flanck shuning the Linaea put a hollow tent in it and euacuate the humor by little little I haue set downe an excellēt remedie in the poore mans Guide for the curation of this disease if the fault be not in the liuer whereby I healed many in Paris during the time of the siege There are many other things which might be spoken of this matter which I leaue to the mediciners being more medicinall than Chirurgicall but by reasō that sometime it falleth vnder the Chirurgians hāds I thought good thus much to intreate of it The ninteenth Chapter of the Tumor in the fundament called Condiloma THe fundament is subiect to diuers passions as Condiloma ficus atrices hemerhoids rhadiae clausio paralysis pruritus fistula Condiloma is a certaine excrescence of flesh hard tuberculus and membranous in the brimmes of the fundament sometimes accompanied with great tumor and swelling and are called Condilomata sometime not swelled and are called Atrices The cause is the weakenesse softnes and lowe scituation of the part also defluxion of humors which become rotten for the which it is of hard curation The signes are manifest to the sight accompanied with great tumor and dolor The Cure consi●th in good regiment and rest often purging with clisters bleeding in the arme to diuert the humor if there be any inflammation vsing vomitors thinges to prouoke vrine The topicall remedies are in the beginning to vse linimentes of oyle of roses cidoniorum with whites of egges thereafter vse remollientes and discutientes if it tend to suppuration vse such remedies as ye haue heard in others putting thereto a little of tapsus barbatus it must be opened in forme circular this counselleth Gordon to the ende the matier remaine not long there in which easily causeth fistule If the excrescence be great hard they must be consumed with causticke medicamentes as counselleth Celsus Sometime the fundament is closed as I sawe in Picardie in the Towne of S. Quintin in France where I brought a woman to bedde that had two children the one had excrescence of fleshe and dyed soone after it was borne the other had a membrane that closed the passage of the excrementes which I c●tte with a bistorie and it healed This hapneth often to maides in their conduites for the which doe the like or haue recourse to Celsus Or to the mans Guide The twentie Chapter of the Tumors in the Fundament called Hemerhoides THe Hemerhoides are an inflamation or voiding of bloud of some one or moe of the fiue veines which goe about the Fundament of the which there are diuers kindes as saith Fernelius some are interne which are not to be seene others externe some swelled and voide no humor but in tract of time returne inwardly some open and auoyde aboundance of melancholicke bloud which maketh great payne The cause is great aboundance of melancholicke pituitous or bilious bloud also great vsage of mordicant medicines as saith Gordonius The Signes are these if the humor be colde the sicke feeleth great heauinesse and dolor and trembling of the bellie if the humor be hotte there shall be great pulsation euill coullor of the face heauinesse of the eyes The Iudgementes this disease is dangerous and difficill for sometime the great euacuation causeth the hydropsie euil colour and weakenesse of the bodie which often endeth in fistule If they be sodainely stayed they ingender dangerous maladies and often death the humor taking the course to some other part as the liuer or the lightes as saith Bartapallia if they voyde moderatly it is good and preserueth the sicke from melancholie leprosie strangurie griefe in the sides and inflamation on the lightes The naturall course of them is to voyde euery moneth once or at least foure or fiue times in the yeere The Cure is somewhat difficill the part being sensible and colde hauing no force of it selfe also being in a lowe place easie to receiue fluxion and being in a priuie place hard to
come to at all times yet in so farre as may be it consisteth in good dyet abstayning from all thinges of euill digestion and which breede melancholie nexte the bodie shall bee gently purged then bleede if eyther they flowe moderately or be painefull also bleede in the veyne in the ham or foote If they be tumified applie a horsleach and some medicaments to make them open and ease the paine as cataplasmes fomentations halfe bathes or sassettes of henbane tapsus barbatus violettes redde roses mallowes lintseede all soddeu in milke and applyed on the parte Also the yolke of an egge oyle of roses rose water and creame applyed after the aforesaid manner are of great force Some for this purpose vse hogges doung hotte on the part for the appeasing of the payne as you shall heare further in the poore mans guide Or this take sorrell violettes henbane of euery one a little roast it vnder the aeshes and mixe it with a little hogges grease and lay it on the sore If they voyde much applie ventouses on the shoulders with astringent and corroboratiue emplaisters on the os sacrum and fundament made of sanguinis draconis masticke mallowes with the haire of an olde Hare cutte very small and a little pouder of roset mixe all together with the white of an egge and lay on the foresayde places If the payne be vehement and interne take a tente wette in the foresaide remedie and put in it or take this vnguent composed of rosat m●snes cerat Galen comitissae mingled all together in a morter of leade paulus counselleth when there are diuers to leaue one open for a certayne space for feare the humor take the course to some noble parte There are diuers other familiar remedies for this purpose which shall be set downe at large in the poore mans guid The one and twentith Chapter of the Tumor in the Intestine when it falleth called by the Latines Exitus longanouis or Ani prec●dentia EXitus longanouis is the fourth comming or rather turning ouer of the great Intestine which happeneth through the laxation of the muscle Sphinter the which maketh it fall tumifie which is most common to young children The Cause is externall internall externall are falles and stroakes on os sacrum sitting on colde stones great compression of the fundament also apostumes which happen in these partes The internall cause is great humiditie which relaxeth the muscle fluxe of the bellie oft pressing to goe to the stoole as commonly happeneth to those who haue the Dissenteria The signes are apparant to the sight the Cure shall be in generall and particular remedies the generall shall bee first in good regiment of life abstayning from much drinke pottages hearbes fruites and all meates that ingender erudities also the vsage of purgations shall be expedient The particular remedies are to foment the place with smithes water and redde wine in these shall bee sodden redde roses myrtles centinodie shepheardes purse roch allom seethe all together and foment the place then annoynt it with oyle of bayes and myrtles and apply on it pouder of masticke mirhe and nuttes of cipres thereafter cause the sicke to drawe in his breath so it shall be easily reduced being put in wet a cloth in the former fomentation and lay on it and band it for a certaine space preasse not sore in going to stoole and keepe you warme If for all this it heale not haue recourse to the poore mans guide in the Chapter of diseases of young children in these partes The two and twentith Chapter of the tumor in the Coddes IN the Coddes are situated the stones which are ordayned by nature for the generation of man which are subiect to diuers tumors and inflamatiōs so that sometime the stones doe swell to the greatnes of a goose egge accompanyed with dolor and hardnes so that the heart liuer braines feele the griefe The cause is eyther externall or internall the external are strokes falles application of remedies which offend the nature of these partes the internall cause is defluxion of humors which often happeneth in the lowe parts of our bodie retention of a maling Gonorhea also when the seede is any wise out of the domicill yet retayned in the capacitie as happeneth to yong men in the night so waking at the discharg of that humor they doe retaine it by force which afterwardes rottes and maketh defluxion on the stones as I haue sometime sene The signes are inflamation dolor hardnes ponderositie which may easily be perceiued great dolor of the muscle called Su●pensor which giueth voluntarie motion to the stones The iudgments if such tumors bee not swiftly cured the aposthume become harde and sometime Scirrous which may not be cured but by amputation as I haue seene in three diuers persons The cure is generall and speciall generall in good regiment of life abstayning from strong drinke eating little and of good digestion little trauelling bleeding the veine saphen vsing of clisters and prouoking vrine The topicall remedies differ not from other tumors sauing that neither apply remollients nor suppuratiues without great consideration but repercussiues in the beginning as oyle of Roses vineger whites of Egges and such thereafter this remedie that hath the vertue to repell and discusse the humor Rec. radicum altheae lini an vnc 2. foliorum violarum maluae parietarie plantaginis hyosciami aen manip 1. camomillae melioti rosar●m siccarum an P. 1. coquautur in oxymelite cum fari●is fabarum hord●i an vnc se If it turne to suppuration doe as in others if by long delay the stone bee altered the best remedie is amputation if vehemenr dolor as often happeneth apply on the sore cassiafistula or newe Cheese with a little vineger which are thinges most anodine in such griefes The three and twentith Chapter of hernes in generall which happen in the flanck and Codds AS in diuers partes of the bodie happen diners sicknesses so in these partes come 8. sortes of diseases cōmonly called ruptures or hernes and are deuided into fiue propers and three cōmons the first of the propers is called Bubonocele or hernia in completa that is when it remayneth in the flanck the second is called ●nterocele or hernia intestinalis that is when the intestine falleth into the codds the third is called Epiploceli or her●ia Zirbalis when the caule fall in the codds The first of the cōmons is called Hydrocelae or hernia aquosa which is a watery humor in the codds the second is called Physocele or her●ia ventosa which is a winde in the codds the third is called Sarcocele or hernia carnosa which is a scirrous or fleshie substance in the cod the fourth is called Cirsoceli or hernia varicosa which is when the veines that nourishe the stones are dilated and full of melancholicke bloode the fift is called hernia hum●●alis which is when any
Those which are in the flesh not touching veines nerues nor arters in bodies well composed and where there are no great accidents nor in partes dangerous CO. Which are dangerous LO All those which are interne also in the membranes of the braines in the heart lightes lyuer Diaphragma and great intestins and those that are within three fingers to the iointes also woundes in the nerues which cause conuulsion for their communication with the braines those in the Esophag vines Ingulare in the flanck thighes betwixt the fingers and all those yet are without tumor all woundes in the head both great smal woūds that are depe made ouerthwart also some are difficill for the excellencie of the part being necessarie to all the bodie and life it selfe CO. Which are mortall LO All those in the substance of the braines heart lyuer midst of the lightes chist of the gall midst of the Diaphragme stomack milt kidneis small intestines bladder matrix trachearter and spinall medull Also those at the rootes of the emunctoires and noble partes in like manner in the veine ca●e descending or ascending the veine part great arter or in the back cause present death be reason of the great euacuatiō of the bloode and spirrits CO. Which aere the particuler signes whereby you know those partes to be mortall LO Euerie one hath a perticuler signe as if the braines or membrane thereof be hurt the blood commeth foorth by the nose by the eares with vomiting of choller voiding of the excrementes vnawares to the partie the face vgly to the sight the feeling dull and vnderstanding hurt the patient falleth into rauing convulsion within 3 or 4 daies We know the heart to be hurt when there cometh out quantitie of blood thick black chiefly if the right side be hurt if the left it is more red and subtill the pulse becometh weake variable the colour pale with vniuersall trembling casting a cold ill sauoured sweat the extremities wax cold often sounding and dieth shortly We knowe the Lights to be hurt when the sicke doth breath with difficultie voyding a spumous blood at the mouth and wound lying on the wounded side speaketh and not on the other side some raue the red colour and heate goeth to the visage in the end issueth quantitie of matter at the wound The Diaphragme being hurt the flancks retire close there is great weight on the part dolor in the rig back cough difficultie of breath with issue of a spumous blood at the wound as in the Lightes If the Liuer be hurt there cometh out great abundance of blood the flanckes retire towards the back the colour like death the eyes sinke in the head want of rest the vrine is bloody the excrements purulent the sick cometh to lie on the belly the dolor is pricking extending to the breast bone and ribbes in respiring he draweth in his shoulders and vomiteth choller Paulus Aegineta reporteth that one lobe of the Liuer may be hurt and yet death not follow of necessitie If the Milt be hurt the blood cometh forth black thick at the wound or left flanck which with the stomack waxeth hard there is great drought dolor in the furcilles as in the Liuer If the Kidneys be hurt the dolor descendeth to the roote of the thigh testicles there is difficultie of vrine pissing of blood sometime blood staieth within the sicke dieth all swollen If the Orifice of the stomack be hurt there ensueth vomiting of choller as also of that which is eaten presently the pulse is weake sweating the extremities cold The stomack and intestine ieiunū being hurt haue the same signes with the meat drinke issuing forth at the wound the flancks dolorous and hard the Patient voydeth choller at the mouth spitteth blood with great cold in the ext●mities The Spinall medull hurt the sicke becometh paraliticke in a conuulsion and looseth the feeling the inferior conduites are relaxed so voydeth the seed vrine or excrements If the Bladder be hurt there is great dolor aboue the yarde pissing of blood voyding of vrine at the wound vomiting of choller cold in the extremities If the Matrix be hurt the dolor doth communicate to the liskes haunches thighes the blood cometh forth partly by the wound partly by the nature some lose sence and reason and some speach haue the same accidents with those that are hurt in the heart If the Intestines be hurt there is great dolor with continuall voyding of the fecall matter at the wound CO. What is to be considered of the Chirurgian touching the Iudgement of wounbs LO First to know what part is hurt the nature thereof whether there be any or no hope of health knowing the parts that are easie to heale difficile mortall also the vsage actiō substance situation of the same likewise the figure of the wound actions that happen the temperature age sex region season constitution of the time Wounds in the nerues tēdons ioints bones without apparence of tumor are euil signes shew the humor to be brought to the noble part Wounds with fracture behinde are in danger of spa●me such being before are in danger of ra●ing frēsie I● convulsion happen in a wound chiefly after some great inflāmation it is for the most part mortall sheweth the parts neruous to be hurt Wounds in the head if after x. daies symptons do happen signifie abscesse in the liuer and likewise great desire of drinke signifieth the same Wounds that haue bled much if conuulsion ensue are dangerous as also all thrusts in nerues tendons the vnuoluntarie vomiting of choller whē the sick is hurt or the inflāmatiō lasteth is an euill signe CO. Vntill what time should we stay our Iudgement of woundes in the heade LO Vntill Fortie daies and some late writers till fifteene and twentie daies dayes after which time commeth often feuer and other euill accidents which chaunce often at full Moone and dyeth as I haue sometime noted CO. What time of the yeare is most expedient for curation of woundes LO The spring time when the weather is neither hot nor cold the Autume is euill for the moystnes of the ayte as also the cold winter which is enimie to vlcers and woundes in the membranes and bone as sayth Hyppocrates CO. Howe many pointes are there to bee obserued in curing of woundes LO Fiue first in ordring of vniuersall remedies regimēt of life aire which must bee hot and temperate the sicke must be nourished with litle meate and of light digestion some-what refrigeratiue if there be feare of feuer or inflamation which danger is most to be feared afore the 7. day abstayne from wine and all strong drinke except through losse of much blood the hart be faint supp lightly abstayn from women and all vehement passions of
ligators frictions good regiment in vnnaturall thinges thirdly in vsing particular remedies first digestiues for such woundes must sodainly be brought to suppuration for the which vse this cataplasme of mallowes violets althea sodden in fresh broth putting to it a little barley flowre butter basilicon and the yolkes of egges with a digestiue or this Take waxe turpentine calues grease goose grease honney mirrhe and oyle of roses mingle all together To appease the dolor vse oyle of camomill roses lillies mirtles oxyrodin and bol armenie The fourth intention is in correcting of the accidentes as dolor apostume gangren for the which vse such remedies as yee haue heard in the seconde Treatise The wound suppured and the accidentes corriged it must be cleansed with honney of roses and turpentine mundificatiue de appio apostolorum and such like as yee shall heare in the introductiō to Chirurgerie in the pooremās guide Being cleansed wee vse incarnatiues and desiccatiues as was set downe in the former Chapter The fifth Chapter of woundes done by gunshot I Haue spoken of simple compound and contused woundes nowe will I intreat of woundes with dilaceration and losse of soft and hard partes and is made by diuers sortes of instrumentes as bulle●tes of lead iron steele brasse stones and other such like matter in diuers figures as round triangular quadrangular pointed flatte little and great which sometime penetrate sometime not whereof our auncientes haue made no mention except onely Celsus who telleth not with what instrument they were shotte with therefore though some haue written of late yet because they are of diuers opinions and written in sundry languages I will shewe my opinion touching the same not making any mention of others who haue written of the same This kinde of woundes is accompanied with tumor dilaceration of flesh veines arters nerues tendous ligamentes and boanes superficiall profound otherwhiles through the bodie and according to the difference the Chirurgian must take his indication to diuersifie the remedie in like manner apostume dolor corruption of the partes gangrened and mortified through the great aboundance of bloud dispersed betwixte the muscles also for the dissipation of the naturall heate sometime one onely accident otherwhiles diuers together for the which we vse two curatiue intentions to wit restitution of such things as are lost and to conioyne the partes deuided These woūds come indifferently to all parts of our bodie whereof there are diuers opinions some thinke that there is venenositie in the pouder and burning in the bullette which is false for the thinges whereof the pouder is ordinarily made as brimstone saltpeter coales of diuers sortes of trees water wine and aquauitae haue no venenositie in them likewise there is no burning in the bullet for if the bullette of lead beeing shotte a great way should burne through heat would be melted it selfe I haue cured diuers within these tenne yeeres of diuers nations which haue followed the warres in Fraunce in the which I haue found no more difficultie then in other contused woundes so I thinke these accidentes come onely by contusion and dilaceration of the flesh and not by any venenositie nor vstion yet there may be some extraordinarie mixtion in the pouder which causeth venome for the which we take some other indication acccording to the thing The Causes Signes differences and Iudgements are not much different from those of other woundes set downe and sufficiently discoursed in the generall Chapter as for the Cure there are fiue intentions first to draw the ball secondly to appease the dolor thirdly to cause suppuration fourthly in mundifiyng generation of flesh and consolidation fiftly in correction of the accidents As touching the first and second to draw out the bullet and appease the dolor I haue discoursed at length in the generall Chapter neuerthelesse because in these woundes there is vehement dolor which weakeneth the sicke hindereth nature causeth fluxion letteth suppuration and consumeth the flesh which is contused I will set downe things more particularly for the appeasing thereof in chaunging the temperature of the whole bodie in due vsage of the sixe vnnaturall thinges by purgations bleeding and abstayning from thinges which cause dolor as great tentes sections straight bandages wrong situation of the part incision vnlesse there be great neede The topicall remedies as cataplasmes with bread milke yolkes of egges and a little saffron also mallowes sodden and beaten with wheate flowre oyle of roses and hogges grease and saffron are good or this Rec. sanguinis draconis boli armen●ci an onc 1. pulueris rosarum et myrtillorum an onc di aceti onc 1. albumina ouorum quatuor olei rosacei quantum sufficit fiat vnguentum If there be great heat oyle of roses with whites of egges and vineger layde about and on the part is good Also cerat Galen or vnguent rosat mesne with bol armenie sanguinis draconis pouder of roses and myrtles If we feare inflamation which oft chaunceth till the seuenth day vse the same remedies and shift them twise or thrise a day The tentes shall be soft wette in turpentine with a little hypericon and aquauitae according to the nature of the part and vse this remedie hotte and continue it till the inflamation bee past let the sicke eate and drinke little that he ingender no superfluities Auicen coūselleth to giue meate to the sicke onely for sustentation of nature abstayning from wine for it is enemie to al wounds drinke sodden water with sugar or honey or ptysane till the inflamation be past keepe rest and quietnesse abstayning from all actions of the spirrit watching and women according to the disposition and nature of the hurt Third intentions consisteth in medicamēts suuppurati●es which must be done with speede to the end they be lesse subiect to inflammation vsing remedies which are of qualitie hot and dry with vertue to correct the putrefaction let the Gangrē mortification of the parte there are of diuers formes the simples are made of oyle of Hypericō of eggs yolkes of egges lynit seede Lillies Turpentine Mirh such like or this Rec. tereb enthine onc 2. corticis thuris drag 1. mastichis drag 3. olei hypericonis et rosarū an parum vitellum vnius oui fiat medicamentū Or this which I most cōmonly vse of Hypericō Turpentine and yolks of egges or my balme which is excellent in all kindes of woundes made thus Rec. summitatū et florum scrophularie et hyperico nis an quantū volueris offi●glossi vel herbe carpentari●rū et consoli dae regis an quantum volueris terebenthinae venetae quantum sufficit macerentur in sufficienti quantitate olei hypericonis insolentur omnia in sole calidissimo spatio 40. dierum in vase plumbeo vel vitreo duplicato posteo fiat fortis expressio seruetur liquor pro balsamo The fourth intention is to mundifie and regenerate that which is lost which must
bee done with thinges that haue little or no mordification according to the nature of the part as this take sirupe of Roses violets fumitarie wormewood honey of Roses vnguent de apio apostolorum ●uscum egiptiacum or this take Turpentine honey of Roses Iris of Florence barley flower Succi apij of ech a little and make an vnguent If there be great putrifaction the matter in great abundance vse this Rec. tereb●nthine onc 4. vitellorum ouo●um onc 2. vnguenti ●giptiaci dr●g 1. fiat mixio The woūd being mundified and voide of all superfluitie we vse for the regeneration of flesh vnguentū aureum basilicon maius emplastrum de betoni●a diapalma tetra pharmacum gratia dei oleum mastichini et absinthij mixe there with a litle flower of barley lupines and orob with Thus Mirh Mastick and Aloes Sometime we vse in these sortes of woundes a certaine drinke called potion vulnerar wherewith wee wash the wound and is thus made Rec. consolidae maioris et mediae serpentariae linguae canis ceruinae herbae Roberti glyciriz● pimpinellae artemisiae scabiosae plantaginis aristolochiae agrimoniae betonicae pedis columbini capilli veneris ceut anreae maioris et minoris gaiaci s●ls●par●lle millefolij baccharum lauri of which all or some make a decoction in water and aromatize it with cinamond honey or sugar drinke of it twise or thrise a day as it is needefull and also thou maist wash the wound putting thereto a little honey of roses or sirupe of roses The wound being filled with flesh it must be dried with medicaments epupoloticks which by their astriction and drying do harden the flesh and make a substance like to skin as vnguentum desiccatiuum rubeū diapompholigos album rasis dia calcit●●s triapharmacū ceruss● de minio mixing therewith galbanum acasia sarcocolla plūbum et es vstum vitriolum allumen calxlota and such like The fift intention is in correcting the accidents which are diuers and great for some come by accidēt or some sharp feeling of the part h●rt as dolor inflamatiō conuulsion feuer and such like some come through violence of the būllet as extinction of the naturall heate of the part hemoragie dilaceration contusion of the nerues fractures of the bones some by the ignorance of the Chirurgian for the which cause he must be diligent to stop such accidents if they happen to help them with speede The sixt Chapter of wound●s in the veines and Arters HAuing spoken sufficiently of woundes in the fleshe in like manner you shall heare of them in the veines and arters one or moe without with losse of substāce which are accompanyed with flux of blood which cōmeth whē there orifice is open and is done by incision imbecilitie of the veines abundance of blood or some sharp qualitie when their tunicks are deuided contused and pearced or else whē the blood goeth through the veins as the sweate through the skin the tunickes and membranes are deuyded by some externall cause as contusiō ryding shooting falles in diuers manners The signes are these if the fl●xe be of the arter or veine of the arter the bloode commeth leaping out subtilly red and hot If it be more grosse black and thick and not leaping it proceedeth of the veines as sayth Aui●en The Iudgments are if the blood come out in great abundance it is dangerous chiefly when there is eyther conuulsion belching or rauing if it be not stayed it causeth death because it is the treasure of life As for the Cure there are two intentions the first to stay the blood the second to conglutinat the wounde the blood is stayed by filling vp the wound with drie lint and aboue it an astringent or cloth wet in vineger if that stay it not remoue the lint often wet it in vineger which staunceth it much for these thinges cold and mordicant stay flux of blood in the wounds or make this medicament of bolarmenie sanguinis draconis thuris aloes of each like quantitie mixe them with the white af an egge and the haires of an olde hare cut small thereafter binde it reasonable straight wetting the bands clothes all about it in oxycrate touch it not in foure dayes in touching remoue all very softly if it flick to humect it with oyle whites of eggs or wine Some to stay blood put these pouder in the whund wich I haue somtime vsed viz. mās blud dried with burnt cloth wherwith thou shal● fill the woūd full some apply vētouses frictiōs ligators on the parts opposite some hold their thumbe long on the mouth of the veine which is a good remedie for the blood cōgealeth in the veine so stanceth If for al these remedies it stanceth not we apply on the veine or arter a little lin● wet in vineger with a little pouder of vitriol otherwise wee knit them as was taught in the Chapter of Ane●●risme if that cannot be done we canterize thē with hot Irōs taking heede to touch the parts ne●●ous Shelander counselleth the gum lemnium soddē Rennish wine which hath many vertues for it digesteth mundifieth incarnateth is good in wounds of the head as saith Matheolus If none of these staunch flux of blood it is dangerous if it be in the matrix intestins or bladder it shal be stayed by iniections of iuyce of plantine and such like the blood being stayed the wound is healed as others hauing regard to the part for as the veine is more drie than the flesh and more soft than the arter so it must haue contrarie remedies in like manner the wound in the arter is harder to be healed than that in the veine Sometime there cōmeth such flux of blood at the nose that it is hard to staunch for the which take an ounce of boll the barke of Pomegarnet tree balaust and galles of each 3. drammes seede of white Poppie 2. drammes incorporat altogether with the white of an egge and vineger and apply on the temples and nose if by this the violent flux doe not stay take foure graines of my requies which infallibly stayeth all fluxes The seauenth Chapter of wounds in the nerues and parts Neruous CVttes and thrustes in the nerues chaunce in diuers parts of our body and in diuers maners according to the instrument it is done with some are simple others composed superficiall profound according to the diuersitie of the which we must diuersifie the remedie The causes ye haue heard in the generall Chapter The signes are knowne by offending of the mouing feeling and by the vehemēt dolor which causeth fluxion feuer spasme rauing inflamatiō fluxiō on the nerues The iudgments are that all woūds in parts neruous are dāgerous for the great cōmunication they haue with the braines and the nerue halfe cut is more dangerous and dolorous than if it were all cut which if so be the action of
heart and the inferior venter for the lyuer the which three domicilles being wounded there must some other particularities bee obserued for curation thereof then ye haue heard Therefore we wil discourse of them seuerally first of the head The head wherein are contained the braines is subiect to solution of continuitie which sometime is simple otherwhiles composed with fracture of the crane some penetrateth the membranes other the proper substance of the braines the Cause and Iudgements are as ye haue heard in the Chapter generall of woundes The Signes of the simple are as in others the signes of fractures mortall in the skull are feuer before 13. dayes in Winter and 7. dayes in Sommer euill colour of the wound liuide little quantitie of mattir the skinne drie and aride the toungue blacke auoiding vnawares of excrementes and water the sicke raueth pustulles in the toungue conuulsion in the parte opposite some fall into apoplexie and death followeth The signs of healing of fractures in the head if after the head be trepained or the bone cut out by stroke or otherwise the membrane called dura mater being of naturall coulor and mouing and the flesh that groweth be red and the sick remouing well his neck and iawes all these are good signes otherwise not The simple wounde is cured as others the composed with fracture and other accidentes is cured after diuers maners according to the diuersitie of the fracture as ye shall heare The bone is sometime broken superficially otherwhiles to the middst and sometime thorough both the tables offending the membranes that couer the braines of the which fractures there are fiue kinds the first is called fissure or cleft which shal be knowne by incisiō of flesh to the pan in forme of St. Andrewes crosse thē seperate the crane frō the pericrane put in lint to dilate the wound to the end the trepan or other instrumēt touch not the flesh if in cutting any veine or arter it bleede it must be knit Thou shalt know the cleft by rubbing on it with thy naile which if you suspect to be in both the tables cause the sick to hold his mouth and eyes close holding in his breath and if there issue out humiditie by the cleft be assured that both the tables be riuen for the which we must eyther with trepan rongin or other instrument cut the bone to dura mater taking away the least you can of the sayd bone as counselleth Celsus giuing onely issue to the blood and matter contayned in the place The second kind of fracture is called con●usion which is oftentimes so great that it seperateth the crane from the flesh for the ●●●edies which we vse section to euacuate the blood yet applying no humide remedies which are contrarie to the bone of the head sometime the crani●u● is pressed in by the stroke chiefly in children that haue the bone yet soft which sometime rise of themselues if not we apply ventouses and cause the sicke to hold in his breath to make it rise amplasters which haue the force to draw If for all this it doth not rise incise the flesh and apply a ●ire found if that be not suffitiēt apply a trepan the an eleuator The third kinde is pressing downe of cranium which cōmeth by the weight of the inst●●●ent it is done with or else with a fall frō some high place is reduced as the precedēt if it be pressed down by peeces it must be lifted with the eleuator or pi●cetts meete to draw these peeces without the mēbranes apply not the trepā if the bones be altogether broken The fourth kind is called incision in the bone● whe●e of there are diuers kinds according to the diuersity of the instrumēt according to the which we must diuersifie the remedies if it chance the flesh bone be all cut thou shalt by the coūsel of Celsus euacuat the blood if any be cleanse dresse wel the woūd close the bone with the flesh sow vp the wound leauing a space for the te●●to euacuat the matter in both sides The fift kind of fracture is called counterclift that is whē the cleft of the bone is in the part opposite to the sore and of all fractures this is the worst and deceaueth most the Chirurgian for in it there is no signe but coniecture and by feeling the hurt man in oft putting his hand on the place and if he got the stroke with violence if he fall after he got it if he did vomit notwithstanding there be no cleft where he got the stroke I haue known sundry die in this case chiefly at the battel of Sandlis in France a valiant Captaine of Paris who had a stroke on the right parietarie who notwithstanding of all handling by skilful Chirurgiās dyed within 20. daies at which time his cranium was opened and there was founde great quantitie of blood vnder the left parietarie with cleft in the same There is yet another kind of maladie called cōmotion or astonishment of the braines the which causeth the same accidents as the the fracture of the cranium is caused by falles from the high places strokes shot of bullets launces or by the sound of a Cannon shot or with the hand as fayth Hyppocrates speaking of a man who gaue a young woman in playing a little blow on the os bregma who incontinent tooke a feuer and conuulsion voided humors by the eare and so dyed We must vnderstand that any violent stroke may astonish the head and be occasion to breake veines and arters not onely of those which passe betweene the sutors but also those betwene the tables for the suspention of dura mater of the which commeth great flux of blood which runneth betwixt the bone and membranes or betwixt the membrane and braines which afterward doth rot and cause many accidents as dyuines of sight vomiting of chollor which chanceth by reason of the nerues of the sixt coniugaton that hath connexion with the stomack in like mannner inflammation of the membranes which communinicate to all the body and causeth feuer rauing aposteme corruption in the braines death The woundes of the head must in no wise be neglected albeit they bee but small for oftentimes in little woundes come great accidentes and especially in bodies euill disposed The cure hereof consisteth first in abstayning from wine and strong drinke vsing ptysan or soddē water with a little syrupe of vyolerts or acetose called potus diuinus so continue till the accidentes bee past let the sicke eate little and of good digestion as Capons Chickens Pigeons Veale Mutton and such like vsing a straight dyet till the accidentes bee past in the meane time he may vse Comfitts of Sorrell conserue of Roses for such thinges keepe the vapours from ascending to the head the aire must neyther be hotte nor colde sleepe moderately and purge gently with Clysters bleede in the Cephalicke veine according
and first I demaund what is an ulcer LO It is a solution of contim●t● made by erosion in diuers parts of the bodie out of the which procedeth a ma●ter purulen● which hindereth the consolidation thereof CO. Are they not different LO Some differ in nature in substance in quantitie figure and accidents CO. How differ they in nature substance LO Some are simple in the flesh without any other indisposition as saith Galen or are composed with one or mo● maladies as vlcers with intemperie corruption of the bone aposteme nodositie and diuers other accidents CO. How differ they in figure and quantitie LO Some are round long profound superficiall great and small CO. How differ they by accidents LO Some are putride dolorous fistulous cancrous some are inueterate some recent some in on member some in other places CO. How many causes are there of vlcers LO Three primitiue antecedent and coniunct CO. Which are the primi●●tiues LO Contusion scratching heates applycation of sharp medicaments corrosion great cold that extinguisheth the the naturall heate chiefly in the extremities CO. Which are the causes antecedent LO Euill humors in the bodie which come of euill nouriture or euill disposition of the bodie or some part thereof chiefly the ly●er and milt CO. Howe are these humors causes of vlcers LO Partly by their euill qualitie partly through abundance thereof do spoyle open co●ode the most debill parts of our body not hauing force to resist such malignitie and so causeth vlcers CO Which are the coniunct causes LO The foresayd humors conioyned in the partes vlcered as also all other violent thinges that haue force to vlcerate the same part CO Which are the signes Lo. They are euident or are in the body are knowne by the dolor nature or the place accidents excrements such as you shall heare in the sixe kinds of proper vlcers CO. Which are those sixe kondes of vlcers LO The first is sanious 2. virulent 3. filthie 4. cancrous 5. putride or stinking 6. corrosiue or rotten awaye CO. Haue they no other names LO They haue fiue other names and first by the humors secōdly of the matter that cōmeth frō them thirdly of the accidentes fourthly of the sicknes fiftly by comparing them to the similitude of beastes CO. How take they their names by the humors LO Some are of the Phlegmatick humor and are called Phlegmaticks some by the blood and are called sanguinis by the choller chollerick and by melancholy melancholick CO. Howe take they the nemes of the matter LO Of the great abundance of sany or humidity it is called vlcer sanious of the pus pur●lent of the sordidities it is called ●ordide of the virulence it is called virulēt CO. How take they their names of the acdents LO Of the hardnes called callositie it is hard and callous of the cau●●ns of it it is called cauernous of the fistule it is called fistulate of the putrifaction putride of the corosion or malignitie of the matter corosiue of the cankers or hardnes turned ouer it called cancrous of the dolor dolorous of aposteme apostemus In all vlcers where any of these raigne they heale not till they be takē away CO. What is callositie LO It is a drie flesh without dolor because it hath no veine to make it humide nor nerue to giue it feeling CO Howe is that called which commonly commeth from vlcers LO It is called sanie or matter CO. What is sanie LO It is a corruption of the part which nature cannot digest and make it to nourish the same CO. How many sortes of sanie is there LO Two to wit that which is commendable as it ought to be and that which is not CO. Which is commendable LO It is that which is white light equall in consistēce neither thick thin nor euill tasted CO. Which is not commendable or euill sanie LO It is a corruptiō of the in●●ument much altered through vnnaturall heate according to that alteration it produceth euill sanie CO. What call you pus LO It is a kinde of sanie made of the nouriture and superfluitie of the mēber tending to corruptiō by the alteratiō of the naturall heate debilitie of the member out of the which cōmeth a matter called virus sordities CO. Whot is virus Lo. It is that which is ingēdred of the most subtill and hotte parte of the pituitous humor which nature cannot digest for the great abundance thereof CO. What is it thou callest sordities LO It is a grosse matter ingendred of grosse humors CO. What callest thou durities or hardnesse LO It is a thing hard and solide not easie to bee corrupted which may come of three causes that is great heate congelation repletion CO. What callest thou fistula LO It is a profound vlcer hauing the entrie hard narrow deepe cauernous from the which proceedeth a matter virulent CO. What is putrefaction LO It is a chaunge of the substaunce of our whole body or of some parte thereof through an vnnaturall heate CO. What is the cause of putrefaction in our bodies LO It commeth either that the spirite animall is corrupted or cannot goe to the parte for colde heate apostume pustulles vlcers ambulatiues venenous also putting of oyles and such like in deepe vlcers doth corrupt the fleshe also too much vsing of refrigeratiues in hotte apostumes and ligators which intercept the spirite CO. How many sortes of putrefactions are there LO Three ro wit Gangren Estachiles and Histiomen CO. What is Gangren LO It is a putrefaction of the parte hauing yet feeling and differeth in that from others CO. What is Est●●ache● LO It is a putrefaction of the member or parte thereof without feeling corrupting both flesh and boane CO. What is H●stiomen LO It is a whole corruption of the member eating consuming the whole bodie away CO. What is Corrosion LO It is a consumption of the fleshe through the bitternesse and sharpenesse of the humor CO. What are the causes of Corrosion LO The malignitie of the fleshe the humor cholericke phlegmaticke salt admixed CO. What callest thou Cancer LO It is a maladie of a matter colde and drie being hotte by putrefaction hardnesse and other signes as ye shall heare in his proper Chapter CO. What are the Iudgementes LO There are diuers according to the accidentes that fall and first that vlcers remaining a yeere or more vncured make the boane vnder them altered rotten whē such vlcers are whole there remaineth a cauitie in the part vlcered all vlcers that are euil colored blacke are esteemed malignes if any vlcer being filled vp ready to cicatrice begin sodainely to runne againe without manifest cause it is in danger to become fistulous Hippocrates saith that vlcers which haue no haire about them are vneasie to heale and cicatrice also those vlcers which come by reason of some maladie as hydropsie cachexie are hard to heale Hippocrates saith also if any
poore mans guide to heale all kindes of burning in a shott time with one emplaister onely wherewith I haue had good effect at diuers times This remedie is very good easie to be had and healeth without skarre Take the barke of an Elme tree steepe it a night in water take it out in the morning ye shall perceiue a ielly on the inner side of it wipe off that ielly with a feather or thy finger anoint the sore therewith and it healeth as is aforesaid And thus we ende the Treatise of Vlcers THE SEVENTH TREATISE of Fractures and dislocations and embalming contayneth foure Chapters By Peter Low Arellian Chapter 1. Of Fractures in generall Chapter 2. Of Curation of Fractures Chapter 3. Of Dislocations generall and particular Chapter 4. Of Embalming of dead bodies The first Chapter of Fractures in generall CO Hauing intreated heretofore of maladies which happen in the soft partes as the skinne and flesh heere wee will prosecute those which happen in hard and solide partes as the boanes and first of Fractures what is then a Fracture LO It is a generall diuision or disscision or solution of continuitie in the boane CO. How many kindes of Fractures are there LO Three the first is ouertwart breaking the second in length and the third obliquely in this kinde of Fracture the the pointes of the bones enter in the flesh and causeth dolor by the pricking of the flesh and nerues CO. Are these kindes of Fractures simple or composed LO Sometime simple otherwhiles composed with wound inflamation gangren dolor and such like CO. Differ they not after another manner LO They differ according to the partes where the Fracture is as Fracture in the head nose backe legges fingers and such like CO. Which are the causes of Fractures LO Haly Abbas saith also Galen that all outward thinges that haue force to bruise breake cutte or cleaue are sufficient to cause Fracture CO. Which are the Signes of Fractures LO Auicen Rasis Celsus say that by the sight and feeling the parte with the hande thou shalt perceiue it vnequall and also feele and heare a noyse in handling harder there shall be dolor in the part CO. Which are the Iudgements of Fractures LO Fractures in hard bo●●es and drie as in olde folke are more difficill and longer in healing then soft and humide in young people Auicen saith that Fractures in chollericke and old folke are difficill in very olde folke impossible Fractures of the ribbes with inflamation spitting of bloud are most dangerous CO. Of all sorts of Fractures which are easie to heale which difficill and dangerous LO All Fractures i● the ribbes which are simple in the middest of the legges or armes and fingers made ouerthwart are not dangerous All fractures neare the ioynts and in the heads of the bones are difficill and the motion afterwards not good those which presse inward are worse than those which go out All fractures in the head how little so euer they be are dāgerous all fractures where they are many broken peces are dangerous those with wound are difficill because the bādage cannot be done without dolor of the wounde Celsus saith that fractures in the thigh are euill because the mēber remaineth alwaies shorter all those that are eminēt have much marrow are dangerous CO. Are all fractures healed in a certaine space LO Some are longer some shorter according to the greatnes hardnes and drynes fractures in the head are healed in 35. daies in the thigh in 45. daies in the legges and armer in 40. daies the nose in 16. daies the ribbes in 20. daies in the iawes the shoulder clauicles handes feete are healed in 20. daies in the haunch and point of the shoulder in 40. daies and likewise in other places according to nature of the bone the age the aire and time of the yeare and constitution of the body the dyet medicaments and gouernment of the sick which things duely done do shorten the time of the cure The defect of the aliment viscous is helped by fomēting with hot water the oft pessing and shifting it doth prolong the time as also straight ligatures so in dede there is no ●imited but some are longer some shorter time in healing as we see by day experience The second Chapter of curation of factures in Generall IN the precedent Chapter ye haue heard what fracture is with the causes signes and Iudgments now remayneth the cure for the which ye must consider first if there be inflammation to differ the reduction till it be past for to auoyd great accidēts than we must haue a quātity of whites of eggs oyle of Roses beaten together cloth cōpresses bandes fe●ules machins lacs oxycrate men to help thee with other things necessary for the purpose hauing al these in readines there remaineth yet fiue pointes the first is in extension of the member which is done by laying it on a bench or other place proper the sick being well situated there must be two persons to hold the member fractured the one at the nether part the other at the vpper part of the which one draweth vp an other down to make the extension if the hands bee not suffitient to do this wee take cords or strong cloth and bind fast the member one to the vpper part an other to the nether which shal be drawne by two men contrarie as ye haue heard For the same purpose ye may vse glossocomes if great force bee needefull beware of extensiō chiefly in dry bodies for feare of dolor feuer and conuulsion The second intentision after the extensiō is made thou shalt take the mēber softly with thy hands reduce the bones in situation naturall then lose the machins that the muscles may go to their owne naturall The third intension is to binde it well to hold it in the estate vnmouing it is done by medicament● bandage we apply for the first time an emplastrū astringēt or defensiue made of bol frie flower whites of egs oyle of roses it shal be best to rub the māber with cerat galen oyle of roses mirtill or mastick before the applicatiō of the astringēt the cloth must be wet in oxycrate the bands also Therafter bind the member of the which our auntient vsed only two kindes to wit the vnder band which Hipp. calleth Hypodesmedy the vpper band which he calleth Hypodesmos The nether band is deuided into 2. or 3. the first is short beginning right on the fracture wearing vpward toward the knee if the fracture be in the legge the volutiōs must be close together this kind of bādage letteth the fluxion on the member hurt The second band which must be longer shall begin in the same fashion making 2. or 3. circumuolutions on the fracture cōducing downwards this bandage maketh expression of the blood which was