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

Presipitatum mingled togither this doon you shall take away the corruption of the bone And then after that you may safely vse your vnctions made with Axungia Gummes Mineralls Oiles and Mercury also if you ad thereto of fine Treacle or Mithridatum it wil be the better You shall anoint the shoulders the muscles of the back the Loines the Hips the Thighs the knées and all the outward members as Legges and Armes But you must take very good héede that you touch not the head the region of the hart the Stomack nor the ridge of the Back Also yee must haue a good respect to ceasse your anointing in suche order that you bring not to muche accidents to the mouth wherby the Pacient might vtterly lose the vse bothe of his tung and teeth Because that so many ignorant Chirurgians haue taken vpon them this cure without either discretion in applying the vnction or ordering of the patient I haue thought good to write ij or thrée woords touching the ordering of the Pacient When the body is prepared of his humors with apt and méet medicines aswel Sirups Decoctions purgings and opening of the Vain according to the disposition of the body the patient shal be placed in a place naturally hot or els otherwise made warme whiche must be frée from all colde hauing the doores windowes and other open places closely stopt for the colde aire is very hurtful bothe for the Sinewy parts and also for the woorking of medicines for it wil deminish hinder the actions therof And in this case ther are many which commit great errors which are worthy of reprehencion for aswel in the winter as in the Summer they anoint the Patients in great and large Chambers where very much ayre entreth Wherfore at the beginning of this cure if the place be not very close warme you shall make a Pauilion with Couerings and suche other like round about a fire by the which meanes you shall keep the colde ayre from the Patient But if it be possible it is better to haue a little chamber close and warme and also continually a pan with Coles in the midst of it If it bee so that the Patients be so weke that they cannot abide the heat of the fire or would be loth to be séen naked as women or maids you shall anoint them lying in their beds First the patient shall put out one Arme and then the other and so the rest of the partes shal be anointed one after an other And you shall vse the Patients from time to time according to the dissease The third error is concerning wounds pearcing into the Brest IT fortuneth often times that the wounds pearce the holownes of the brest so that great quantitie of blood dooth fall down into the bottome of the same and there dooth stay vpon the Diaphragma Diaphragma 〈◊〉 two muscles which go 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the ●●●st seperateth the hart frō the Liuer also the heuinesse of the said blood oppresseth the Diaphragma and putrifieth and ingendreth an euill qualtitie The which putrifaction sending vapours to the hart causeth a continuall feuer and commonly death within ● dayes Of the which the common Chirurgians haue no consideratiō or els by their ignoraunce they knowe not the cause and so the Patient is destitute of all help Wherfore when you sée that the wound perceth into the Thorax or brest you shal take good aduisemēt in searchīg out diligently whether the blood be descended into the lower parte of the Diaphragma the whiche may bee knowen by the stinking of the breath and by the relation of the Patient which dooth féele the blood quiuering or shaking inwardly And also commonly his face wil be of a reddish or hie coulour by reason of the vapours which assend vp And note that at the which side the blood dooth moste remaine in lying vpon the same side the patient shall feel lesse pain then vpon the other because that the said blood oppresseth the Lungs and the Diaphragma the Chirurgian ought to haue a good respect to the signes aboue written and whilst that the strength of the patient is yet remaining it shall bee needful to make way for the said blood to be Euacuated betwéen the fourth v. rib a hand breadth or a little more from the Ridge of the back and your incision knife shall be very sharp also you shall doo it by little and little very gentlely in cutting Mesopleuria or the muscles betwéen the ribs it ought to be doon towarde the lower part of the said muscles for the vain whiche nourisheth them and the ligaments which giueth them their mouing and féeling are placed more abooue then belowe After that the incision is made you shall let out the corrupted blood by little and little according to your discretion and it shall suffise to euacuate euery dressing v. or vi vnces this doon it shal be very profitabe to vse the wunted potions which you shall finde in the writings of learned practitioners which haue largely written of the said potions and by this meanes abooue written I healed foure in one yéer The whiche Cures without the aforesaid remedyes could neuer haue béen holpen for the whiche I giue vnto God moste harty thanks ¶ The fourth error touching the applications of the Traepans Terebelles for fractures of the hed IN the fractures of the Skul there are committed great errors touching the applycation of the Traepan principally when the bone is broken in many partes for they haue no consideration of the shiuering of the skul but apply the Trapan by the which meanes they presse down the shiuers of the bone vpon the Dura mater rent or tere it in such order that it bringeth great gréeuous accidents wherby commonly deth ensueth Wherfore in this case you shal haue a good consideration before that you apply the Traepan for it is better if it be possible in this case to vse other instrumētꝭ as Eleuiatories Cisers Lenticulj or such other like to make way for the brused matter which depresseth the Duramater it shal be the better lesse danger for the Patient By this meanes I I haue many times forborne the applying of the Traepan to the profit of my Patients and my good name and estimation Moreouer there bee many Ignorant Chirurgians which without consideration apply the Traepan vpon all partes of the hed aswel vpon the comistures or seames as other places whiche is the cause of the death of many Patients Wherfore they ought to haue a great consideration and to be very diligent in this respect and for to vse their art according to the true method The fift error touching the punctures of Nerues WHen it chaunceth that any is hurt by the punctures of Nerues if hee be not spéedily holpen by some cunning and expert Chirurgian hee is in great danger to fall into conuolsions which is the occasion of many a mans death whiche commonly chaunceth to them that be drest by the Ignorant and

Art and open some good rule to the releef of my countreymen I haue aduentured to interpret one small work of the fatherly both Phisition and Chirurgion Galen which I iudged moste necessary for our time hauing ioyned the same with other treatises no lesse fruteful then profitable Which woork although it agreeth nether with the dignity of your noble name nor paraduenture is answerable to your honours oppinion and expectaon of me and whiche I must needs confesse is superfluous to your honour who can bothe read and vnderstand the same in the first tungs wherein the Authors haue written yet be cause other may be releued therby I thought I might bothe easely obtain pardon and also be bolde to vse your honours patronage in this behalf seeing the same your honours curtesye and clemencye is vsually extended to all men which doth not vse to esteem such gifts as this according to the value but accepting willingly the good meaning of the person Thus beseeching your honour to take in good parte this testimony of my thankfull hart suche as it is I beseech also the Immortall God to vpholde the renown of your Honours name in the noble linage of your noble Progenitors Your Honours humble and obedient Seruant George Baker To the Reader THere are two instruments aswel in Surgery as in all other Arts whereby a man is directed to the scope or purpose which he intendeth namely reason and experience Reason is occupyed about method and method as Galen in the first book De methode medendi teacheth is a contrary thing to experience rashely made and at aduenture and procéedeth a sure way taking iudications of the complexion of the body of the nature of the deseased parte of the causes and differences of the diseases and so orderly passeth frō iudication to iudication applying apt remedyes such as certain experience hath taught to haue vertue correspondent to such purpose as learned method prescribeth til at lēgth helth which is the scope and end of the art be obtained By this discription of method ye may sée plainly and distinctly the vse and necessitie bothe of reason and experience but héer must you vnderstand by reason such learned iudgement as procedeth by discretion and certain knowledge of the iudications abooue mentioned and afterwards maketh apt choise of experiments Experience also wherof Galen speaketh is a thing of more perfection then the rude obseruations of vndiscrete pratisers of our time but if they would read Galen his second book De simplicium medicamentorium facultatibus cap. x. they should learn better what appertained to experience how they try and examin their medicins and to iudge truely of their vertues And reason applyed to true method is the cause of certaintie in Phisick or Chirurgiry so on the other parte when it is vsed at randon without discretion and not deriued from true iudication but as fantasies doo féed the idle brain it is a thing as Galen witnesseth ful of great daunger And therfore he wished the vnlearned practisers of his time rather to vse the experience which they knew warely then to busy them selues with deuising euery man a method after his owne way which thīg passed their capacitie Such was the method of Thessalus before Galens time and such is the method of Paracelsus in our time but what peril did insue of the rash method of Thessalus is by Galen in sundry places declared and how great harme hath béene doon and dayly is committed by the Paracellistes both learned Erastus and Desenius with others doo witnesse by their writings and dayly experience it self teacheth And although the common practizers doo by their experience he le many diseases yet as Galen saith in the same first Book of his method they thē selues must néeds confesse that the ende of their labour dependeth vpon the pleasure of fortune For sithens experiēce is but the obseruation or remembrance of the successe had in particuler things as Galen him self defineth it and that neither art nor science consisteth in particularities it must néeds folow the naked experience maketh no art And then for asmuch as those which be healed are healed either by art or by chaunce then it must néeds folowe that those which cure by experience without method doo heal by chaūce and not by art and therfore are they wel termed of Galen to await the pleasure of Fortune Thus maist thou loouing Reader perceiue what great difference there is betwixt him that cureth artificially obseruing the learned method and order and the vnskilful practizer which after some fantastical deuise bred in the braine of the vnlearned or by vndiscrete experyence procedeth to the same So far dooth the one of these differ frō the other as light from darknes knowledge from ignoraunce order from confusion and to conclude certaintie from vncertaintie or blinde chaunce Now let the sick man be iudge whether is for him the more safetie tobe heled orderly artificially and surely or to depēd vpon the hasard of blinde Fortune happy or not happy at aduenture whether yea or nay But if ye beleeue Hipocrates Age re foeliciter est agere prudenter et agere infoeliciter est agere imprudenter to be happy is to be skilful and to deale vnluckely is to deale vnskilfully Therfore haue many obseruations of the dayly practises of many men perceiuing yea almoste dayly great errours committed in many things concerning mine art of Chirurgery for lack of true method and that moste of all in the wounds of ioints and Sinewes or Sinewy or musculous places whiche require peculter distinct method order of cure from the cōmon wounds of other fleshly places and the same béeing more painful and for the greatnes of the accidents which folowe them béeing of far more daunger doo require therefore the greater care more artificiall handling then any other I haue therfore for looue I bere to my facultie which I wish void of infamy and for the harty desire I bere to the profit of such as be hurt and diseased indeuoured to set foorth some thing in our english tung as those which are willing to learn might therby be instructed and directed to the true method and trade of curing the said wounds of Sinowes c. And as Aristotle requireth in Philosophy the same I think also in Chirurgery moste necessary Vt exempla sunt non chaerilia sed homerica that is not to folowe the practise of bunglers or the vnskilful sort but to learne at the best learned Then for asmuch as Galen by the Iudgement of the learned of all nations hath excelled all other that haue writen in Phisick but cheefely in his method I thought good to translate into our natiue tung his third Booke of the composition of medicines accordīg to places wherin bothe learned abundantly he teacheth the curing of these wounds whiche my labour taking for the furtherance of such as be willing to learne to doo wel if it be on thy parte moste loouing Reader