wyll needes take the things that are spoken to himselfe and so beyng angry at his owne shadow will also play Will Sommers part in striking him that standeth next him if any I saye shall thus deale with you imagin therein what good successe you haue had that in laying for one Foxe you haue caught a couple one whome before you knew by speciall propertyes and another who hath now reuealed himselfe by the guiltinesse of his conscience double gayne you know bringeth double reioycing In such sort verily should I thinke the matter meetest to be taken as namely if I should declare of one that I knowe did giue a Gentleman common praecipitate as it seemeth but mixt with a little vnguent out of his saluatorie for a pill to purge him with and another that to remoue a defiled bone applyed a faire Mallet and a Chissell to the matter for more speede and by the declaring of these I should also rub the galled backs of others whome I knewe not before to be sick of that disease were there not as good cause for me to be glad of the successe of my discouery as for all other men to take it to their aduantage for the shunning of such impostors the best men I doubt not will giue their voyces to this the worst sort I am sure you meane not to make your iudges You haue heard my iudgement of your labours and my opinion of your aduersaries the latter your owne experience and working shall dayly confirme the other the Chirurgians practise and orderly imitation shall abundantly ratifye And as I do entreate you for the publishing of this present fruite so do I no lesse exhort you to the keeping of other obseruations heereafter to the like vse In both suites I perswade my selfe for the good will you beare vnto me that I shall preuayle Your assured freend and wellwiller Iohn Banester In prayse and commendation of the Author and this VVorke I. G. Master of Arte and Student in Physick and Chirurgerie AMong many other good things of late published in the Art of Surgery I cannot but prayse and greatly commende this breefe and short treatise set foorth by Maister William Clowes proceeding from good iudgement gotten by his industrie and much experience by his owne practise I thinke verily that as no man of sounde iudgement can mislike the matter so no man that is in credit for his honestie will discommend the intent of the man but rather attribute vnto him the title he deserueth a wellwiller to his Countrey In the censures of the wise a more necessary Worke could not come foorth in this Art considering the time Surely the want of that knowledge in many sory Surgeons which in this booke is manifested vnto vs hath cost many a poore Souldyer full deere and hath made that stick by many Mariners which they shall neuer be able to clawe off whiles they liue For when they haue been any way maymed or indangered with losse of life or limme then commes the bare singlesoled Surgeon as he rightly tearmeth them and what to do by arte knowes not yet something he must attempt treading in his old cowpath as though he were healing a broken head or plastering of a kibed heele hauing one or two boxes of greene Salues with a plaster of Diachilon and a greene grasse Melilot with their motheaten Mussilage and these are good for sooth for all sores and so committeth the health of the patient to the mayne chance a miserable thing that warlike men should first fall into the hands of men and afterward to be as it were massacred by such ignorant beasts But that they may leaue their brutish ignorance and theyr sauage cruelty let them reade ouer if so be they can this directiue agayne and agayne and if they be not tootoo sottish they shall fynde theyr iudgement amended theyr wittes sharpened theyr practise corrected and theyr fingers directed poynt by poynt from the beginning of the cure till the finishing thereof Thou shalt fynde also heereunto annexed good Reader a learned Worke for the cure of the french disease written by a Spanish Physition Also certayne singular Aphorismes collected out of most excellent Authors a Worke worth the labour and worth thanks to for that a man may walke safely in this narrow compasse who before might be indangered of losing himselfe or his sense in the wilde forest of Aphorismes And surely we can not if we did as we should but greatly thanke God for that as in most other so in this arte the necessary knowledge and sufficient practise is brought of late into shorter volumes then euer it was so that though we may say 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vita breuis yet can we not of late yeeres so rightly say 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ars longa for now hauing the pathes so wel trode by our owne countreymen they better knowe our nature then Strangers did we may walke safer with small studie then they could with tedious trauaile in tyme past Heeretofore men might well saye 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 experimentum periculosum because peraduenture it cost many a man a limme and many men might be spoyled before experience were ratifyed Now that which before was incultum nemus being made parua siluula a man may take a sure staffe to leane vnto whereas before he might trust to a rotten sticke and so be deceyued Now because this notable worke is wrought at home vp starteth Aesops mangy curre and all Acteons Dogs in a great cry ready to pull downe the authors heereof but their maister must be their maister barke and brawle they neuer so lowde Why they be so fell I knowe not vnlesse it be that the bleareeyed man can not abyde the candle nor he that hath been brought vp in a darke den abyde the lyght of the Sunne but to say the truth Hinc illae lachrimae ego excludor ille recipitur by this meanes they are knowne to be ignorant asses and therefore by wise men worthely shut out of dores which if Aesops asse had been he had not so dangerously taken acquayntance of his mayster Yet there is another flye bytes theyr galled backe as bad as this for that euery day more then other the dawes stollen feathers are plucked from him and he knowne to be but a dawe what with the old pulling the black haires from theyr crowne and the yong pulling the gray from theyr forheads they must needes appeare to be but bald bussards and thys is the cause they crye out fye vpon Bookes for Litera scripta manet as they are knaues in grayne so they are fooles in Print but to speake much were but a folly for words with them are but wynde it is Morbus inueteratus an old vlcer of the stomacke which if you touch it fluxeth at the mouth spewing out theyr poyson agaynst all learning and learned men who would cure them of theyr foule euill I haue oftentimes meruayled how they that are artistes in deede can
man for which causes they haue set forth great varietie of many singular and approoued medicines Some of them haue propertie to repell and some do atract some will appease paynes and some do resolue some do mollifie some do suppurare and some which do mundisie some incarnate and some that doe cicatrise and conglutinate Tush sayd he it is not your manuists nor your old basillicon mens practise that is as playn as a packstaffe can be answerable vnto mine I will neuer vse any other remedies but as I haue before spoken of Then I tolde him moreouer that Basillicon made after some mens description is as good an Vnguent as could be vsed in the arte of Chirurgerie for soâ—ne causes And here further I asked him what his meaning was by old basillicon men He answered it was a word which he had learned amongst some Chirurgeons about London Then I told him agayn that there were in London many reuerent skilfull Chirurgeons although perhaps some of theÌ„ haue been greatly abused and defaced with false accusations by certayne noysome Serpents lewd Sycophants and also slaunderous libelling knaues who haue béen rubbed on the gall for their vild tungs and abuses Amongst which sort of gald backt Jades one ragged colt of the same breede which neuer wise man thought to be worth the drawing out of the myre hauing as he openly shewed a guiltie conscience and would needes forsooth thrust himselfe in to make one of that number and being somewhat poreblind played the part of Will Sommer taking Rowland for Oliuer did strike him that was next him But of this motlicote and the rest who now like scrich Owles hide themselues in dennes and deserts for feare of the light and so to bée knowne And of such wicked and vngodly false speakers and backbyters wee shall say more of them at large hereafter if time serueth The which to do I would be loth if the persons were modest but here is no hope in them because they are impudent and yet God doth knowe I had rather derogate from my owne labours then I would deface others without iust cause for that charitie forbiddeth to publish any man in print to the hurt of his good name and credite But as for these factious fellowes possessed with the cursed spirit of enuie scornefulnes and disdaine Notwithstanding their picked speeches as smooth as a Slickstone I think them whatsoeuer they be â—â—fiâ— members to shroude themselues vnder the roâ—ffe of any good or godly societie for all such hatefull persons with their deuouring tongues may bee compared vnto furious Dogs which alwaies bite and barke at stones But these despightfull and enuious persons haue neuer spared any whatsoeuer For I reade that Plato though he were a great learned Philosopher doth confesse that he was neuer at any time in such hazard and perrill of his life being in armes at the beseeging of Corinth amongst his knowne enemies as he was in Greece by Xenophon and other his owne schollers his supposed friends And the only cause hereof as it is sayd was hatred and enuie truely it had been good for such vntimely fruite if they had perished in the blossome But all those whose vngodly behauiour is so trecherous vnto their good friends can by no meanes possible bee trustie and faithfull vnto men of whom they haue neuer been beholding vnto for benefites receiued This may seeme straunge chiefly vnto those godly persons which haue neuer been vexed troubled or molested with the perilous stormes and tempestes of such vnknowne pernicious libellours which haue opposed themselues and haue priuilie spred abroad false libels rumors and slaunderous reportes hoping to inioy the fruites of their labours They haue ventured to make shipwracke of other mens good names and credite so that it is vnknowne vnto me as yet what thing a man can so well do or what life he should leade but that these beastlike men would take occasion by surmising of euill to quarrell or cauell at it And I suppose if time and oportunitie did serue their cunning conueiance is such though now perhaps they will for a time lurke and â—â—ere like fraudulent Foxes and disemble with the craftie Crocodile yet is their naturall inclination at all tymes comparable in crueltie vnto the furious and mercilesse Tiger or Tigers whelps which euilles are infinite and hard to be auoyded as histories witnesse of the one so experience daylie manifesteth the other A matter of such importance and in my iudgement a thing not to bee permitted or suffered in any good gouernment or Christian common wealth But to leaue these pestilent wéeâ—â— and ofscommes of the earth and to returne vnto my former matter from the which I haue digressed And here it is to bée noted that I departed from the aforesayd bragging counterfeyt and fountayne of mischiefe and as I thinke the only scoffer and scorner of the world who defaced some good men that were absent and extolled such as was like vnto himselfe but within seauen dayes after where he promised a mountayne it prooued a molehill And his precious medicines of such great admiration that would do all things did here receiue a merueilous disgrace For they could not worke that effect he looked for and he that was afore a secrete supporter of the Trumpets of sedition a deceiuer of others by procuring of domesticall hatred now he is as it were glad to creepe craule away by owle light praying theÌ„ most humbly to hold him excused to speake the best of him And why forsooth he was presently to go into the countrie to attend vpon no small personage there of force he must remayne during pleasure A stale blind shift hatched vp in the dungeon of deceipt as easie to be espied as the nose on a mans face Now agayne he whose ignorance was shadowed with impudencie and maliciously hidden vnder smooth and fayre promises and glorious boastings and by that meanes at his owne pleasure would lay heauie slaunderous burthens vpon other mens shoulders is himselfe found out and his owne doings hath bewrayed himselfe what he is But it is a most true saying of a learned man If our auncient fathers in times past should haue been abashed at the ingratitude and ill disposition of such hatefull abusers wee should at this day haue been in profound ignorance and little difference betweene vs and brute beaâ—â—es To make here an end of this cousoner it was giuen me to vnderstand that shortly after his departure out of London he had intelligence by some of his straglers that the cure was committed agayne into my hands and he also hearing by them that I had promised to note his abuses and did meane to display his doings vnto the world For which cause he was malcontent conceiued a great displeasure indignation against me sayd I did but heape coales vpon myne owne head and therefore he or some other of his bréed should very shortly either by
he speake what you please I do know the pricke with a needle in the skinne is nothing so daungerous as you make it in any bodie whatsoeuer But it is sayd to be the manner of all you to hide and excuse one an others fault and to speake against such as I am because I am a straunger vnto you and none of your companie and therefore I am despised and my medicines dispraised Why sayd I cuery honest man and faithfull true Artist that is diligent in studie and by his studying attayneth to knowledge and skill and being examined approued and allowed and a man that feareth God and endeuoureth to the vttermost of his power and skill to discharge his duetie which is committed to his charge according vnto those graces and gifts which God of his great goodnes hath indued him with such men are our brethren and of our companie wheresoeuer he dwell or abide but contrariwise deceiuers intruders and shifters as you are which without either reason or skill do abuse the arte and spoyle the people we exclude such persons cleane from vs and do account you all but as a sort of Caterpillers in the countrie and Common wealth Then I proceeded to his former speeches as touching the pricke of a needle in the skinne and I sayd vnto him sith you will not beleeue me that such prickes are dangerous I will shew you what Tagaultius saith being a learned man and of great account in Phisicke and Chirurgerie he also citing Galen in the sixth booke of his method whose words in effect are these Imagine sayth he one come vnto vs who hath but only a prick in the skinne with a needle that man for the good disposition of his bodie may easely bee cured and to followe his accustomed busines hauing the part naked and bare and without any medicine at all and yet receiue no hurt but if he haue a full and plethorike bodie or a bodie of an ill constitution called Cachochymia in such a bodie the pricke of a needle in the skinne is hard to bee cured Then this counterfeyt aunswered agayne I care neither for Galen nor the other man you speake of meaning Tagaltius for sayd he I haue done as good cures as the best of them both and yet I heare they were a couple of good workemen Then sayd Maister Doccor I am ashamed of thy impudencie and boldnes and for that cause did sharply reprehend him So he was commaunded to auoyd the place and presence of the patient Then with vnseemly spéeches which are not méet to be spoken of in this place he departed c. And now I will come vnto the cure of the sayd puncture or pricke of the sinew but first you shall vnderstand that the matter was so stopped in that it could not by any meanes conueniently breathe out and therefore I did open the skinne by incision directly vpon the pricke of the sinewe which I made of a sufficient length that the matter which was stopped in did the more freely and easely issue out and that matter which did continually flowe foorth was some what cleere thinne and glutinous like as though it had been a stime or muscilage then I applyed vpon the sayd puncture to mitigate the payne these Dyles following made first actually hot which I vsed continually vntill the forenamed accidents were remoued and taken away Rec. ana ℥ ss Oleorum Chamomeli Lombricorum Olei Euphorbij ʒ ◠ss Olei exvitellis ouorum ʒ ij Aquae vitae q. s. Misce Since the time of this cure I found the like profite for appeasing of paynes in the cure of a woman which also was pricke into the sinewe vnto whom I vsed these Dyles following in the same order as the other afore rehearsed Rec. ana ʒ iij. Olei Terebinthinae Olei Rosarum Olei Lumbricorum Olei vitellorum ouorum Misce After I had actually hot applyed the aforesayd Dyles then I ministred therewithall for more securitie and speedie helpe to appease the paynes this worthie remedie which is of Vigo his description Rec. Medullae panis Lactis vaccini confecti cum Oleis Rosarum Chamomeli cum vitellis ouorum cum Croco ana q. s. Boyle all these together vnto the thicknes of a plaister the which I applyed warme vpon the sayd puncture Also vpon this medicament of Vigo and likewise round about the whole member where any payne or inflammation was this excellent Cataplasme of Valeriola Rec. ana ℥ iij. Farinae fabarum Hordei Lentium Lupinorum ana ℥ ij Farinae Seminis lini Foenugreci Farinae Orobi ℥ j. Croci ʒ ij Bulliant farinae cum aceto mellis paruo Fiat Cataplasma Also I haue vsed this following in the like cure done of late as I haue declared with great profite and ease vnto the patient c. Rec. ana q. s. Radic althaeae Farinae Hordei Farinae fabarum Farinae lentium Coquantur cum sapa vel lixiuio Whereunto you shall adde ana q. s. Olei Rosarum Olei Chamamelini Olei Anethini Also Terebinthinae Croci parum Misce fiat Emplastrum I haue thought it not amisse here to giue to vnderstand that Guido doth admonish vs not to vse at all those pultises or hot waters which are wont to cure inflammations for that such remedies in this cure do rather putrifie and waste away the sinewes c. And sith the chiefest thing in curing wounds of the sinewes is to appease the payne therefore I haue thought it good here to set foorth such chosen medicines as my selfe haue approoued for the better directing of those young students which haue not been practised in the like maner of curing Moreouer whereas Guido with others doth wisely declare that conuulsions are euill and for the most part vncurable as it is most certaine and true yet it so pleased God by these remedies hereafter nominated he was in a reasonable time and space quite deliuered of that euill accident by annoynting morning and euening all the hinder partes of his necke and both his shoulder blades and downe all the spine of his backe euen vnto his hippes with this Unguent Rec. Olei Castorei ℥ j. Olei Iuniperi ℥ ss ana ʒ vj. Olei Lilliorum Olei Vulpini Misce This being accomplished as is before declared then I proceeded from time to time vntill the finishing of this cure the which was done in the ende with that most excellent Balme that is supposed to bee of Maister Halles description late of Maydstone which is now extant in this booke with the which also I vsed this Unguent following Rec. Cerae ℥ v. Resinae quar j. Terebinthinae lib. j. Mellis quar ss ana ʒ ij Masticis Thuris Sarcocollae Myrrhae Aloes Croci Fiat Vnguentum This approued Unguent and the aforesayd Balme together brought very speedely flesh vpon the hurt sine we and hauing left the vse of the Cataplasme afore spoken of then I
then ye shall say they beholde certayne Spirits that inhabit or dwell in the ayre called Nenusareni and Aerdadi a high matter in a lowe house which sore troubleth the wits of these wandering Pilgrimes which contrarie to the direct line of equitie wrong ballans the meaning of good Authors and so thinke thereby to patch and cloute vp theyr owne silly credits by pulling downe and defacing of others and thus would they roote vp that which they neuer planted Therefore I may rightly compare this image of enuy and such lyke vnto the malitious man which desired of Iupiter he might lose one of his eyes so that another whome he hated might lose both his c. but I will now blot paper or spend time no longer to aunswere any such for it is no conquest to beate an Asse to death Also I meane to vnfolde the strange euents that succeeded after the taking of a certayne pernitious pill which pill as it is sayd was sprinckled abroade by an odde birde of the same neast afore rehearsed This Pill of his was shadowed vnder the vale or title of Turbith mineralis and it is no such thing Moreouer it was sayd to be a Paracelsion Pill but I am not of that opinion for I suppose no good or godly Paracelsion would haue giuen it to a dog The composition of the same vile Pill Mayster Reade hath discouered in his Booke of Arceus lately Translated and by him published as a caueat for all good people to beware of that Pill And in my simple iudgement no good man ought to countenance allowe excuse smother or conceale so perillous a medicine sith it hath left behinde it so foule and filthy broade scarres that touched the liues of foure persons fyrst Iohn Butler Mayster of a Shippe a Barbar surgeons seruant of London a Ropemakers boy in Rowsey and one Master Washborne a Marchant that dyed also in Rowsey This cruell Pill was ministred vnto these foure persons by two simple fellowes who were Surgeons of two Ships which sayde they were deluded by this crow brightfast companion which did write it downe its their booke of secrets with his owne hand for a pretious iewell and there recorded it to be good for all diseases a bad pollicie and verie ill deuised but how needfull it is for all good men to beware of this Pill let euery man iudge which hath care of his owne health yet I do not malice the person of the man but his filthy Pill although to see to he is more fitter to be made a turnebroche or a Scullien of a Kitchen then to be admitted to be eyther Physition or Surgeon but it is sayde of a learned man if such kinde of knaues might be well punished for example sake by the handes of the Magistrate for such offences so should the young Students in the Arte be lesse deceyued I do not heere rehearse a tale of a tub which requireth no longer remembrance than the view or looking on but a matter of such moment which ought to be eternized in thy minde and although I knowe he dangereth his owne welfare that reproueth euill mens faults and shall lye open to slaunder and reproch yet I suppose it better to be maligned of such then to conceale so great a mischiefe that might otherwise ensue by the farther spreading of so vile a medicin and therefore I must crane pardon for I do meane heereafter in this whole discourse not to shun any such rotten rootes as they come or chaunce to lye in my way Heere I am I say farther prest and vrged to vnmaske another of the same neast of young Snakes or rather old suttle Serpents who I trust in God partly by me and also heereafter by the helpe of others more learned they shall be all ferited which way soeuer they goe from their wicked buries mosses and starting holes and farther I would haue followed their abuses at this time and also the abuses of others vnspoken of but that I haue beene preuented by some speciall causes troubles and lets but if heereafter they do not amend I will discouer them to their shame and their names And therefore curteous and friendly Reader note my sayings which I will openly publish and iudge with discretion It is not long since that a subtile deluder verie craftely hauing vpon set purpose his brokers or espials abroade vsing sundry secret drifts to allure many as did the Syrens by their sweet Sonets and melody seduce Mariners to make them their pray so did his brokers or espials deceiue many in proclayming and sounding out his same abroade from house to house as those vse to do which crye Mistresse haue you any worke for the Tincker at the length they heard of one that was tormented with a quartaine then in all post haste this bad man was brought vnto the sick patient by their craftie meanes and so forth without any tariance he did compound for fifteene pound to rid him within three fits of his Agew and to make him as whole as a sish of all diseases So alittle afore his fit was at hand he called vnto the Wife of the patient to bring him an apple of the biggest size and then with a pinne writte in the rinde of the apple Abracadabra and such like and perswaded him to take it presently in the beginning of his sit for there was sayth he a secret in these words To be short the patient being hungry of his health followed his counsell and deuoured all and euery peece of the apple So soone as it was receyued nature left the disease to digest the apple which was too hard to do for at length he fill to vomiting then the core kept such a sturre in his throate that where to fore his Feuer was ill now much worse a malo ad peius out of the fryingpan into the fire presently there were Physitions sent for vnto the sick patient or else his fifteene pound had beene gone with a more pretious Iewell but this lewde fellow is better knowne at Newgate then I will heere declare Such counterfeite Charmers with Figures and Caracters Tagaltius doth condemne as absurd and erronious which wicked practises he sayth becommeth no honest artist to vse or to exercise It is also sayd that in Archadia a Woman began to cure with wicked Charmes without the applying of any medicines which beeing knowne in Athens she was condemned by the Senate to be stoned to death a iust reward for such vngodly practises I reade likewise of another lewde Woman which was accused of Witchcraft the cause was for that she did commonly take vpon her to cure Men Women Children and Beasts by a certayne Charme the which they say she would do onely for a penny in money and a loafe of bread This thing was misliked of many good men in the Countrey where she did dwell and for that cause she was vpon suspition of Sorcery and Witchcraft brought to the Assises and there Arrayned for it
suffer such brasenfaced beastes to liue among them who if they be long tollerated will cause Surgery to be of that credit that a man had rather fall into the chaps of a mad Dog then into the hands of a Surgeon for as their words tend to the defaming of the most skilfull so their works to the disgracing of the Arte. wheresoeuer they goe they leaue such a stincke behynde them that all men that hath had to deale with them cry fye vpon them To prooue this to be true without a sillogisme looke vppon the aftercures that are among you It is some mens worke to rectifie other mens errours Heere I might speake to the worshipful company of Surgeons in London amōg whom I know many haue good knowlege and also great reason ioyned alwayes with their practise Cicero contra Catalinam spake to Senators Hoc quis ferre possit inertes homines doctissimis viris insidiari st ultissimos prudentissimis ebriosos sobrijs dormientes vigilantibus and therefore if either arte or artistes be respected in this case Non est lenitati locus seueritatem res ipsa postulat such matters are not to be iested withall the Stocks were a fit place for such persons to publish theyr skyll Hos igitur a vestris aris aulis a tectis vrbis a moenibus a vita fortunisque ciuium arcebitis tanquam hostes patriae latrones Angliae rectâ pergant in exilium Who could tollerate eyther Molem inuidiae procacitatem linguae or Spolium populi but euery man hath spoken so much and so little preuayled that I am out of hart to speake any more But yet I must needes teare off one ragge more from their torne coate before we part These caterpillers or peoplepollers being thus paynted out in their seuerall colours with theyr proper badge to knowe them by well perceyuing that among so many torches theyr pictures must needs be perceyued seeke to couer themselues vnder other mens hoodes get other to compose and they to subscribe and then the worke is theirs and so they become of blinde bussards that can scarce write and reade great learned men If Tully were aliue he would crye out O honorem contumeliosum such men in deed do rather aucupari gloriam though ignominiosam then publicae vtilitati inseruire I vnderstand that Aesops Asse is alyue agayne and would couer himselfe with a Lyons skinne but if he do appeare we shall perceyue his long eares well ynough then were he best to keepe him selfe within his owne territory least he become by word much famous through greater folly But suppose he can escape cleanly a while yet will Academicus lye whispring hos ego c. tulit alter honorem I could saye something which I leaue expecting alteration of disposition that would be like a water of great force to trye whether there were any figges in theyr bellyes or no but because the one may be wiser then the other I keepe silence hoping that Philoponos shall haue good words for his good will and I would pray them all that old Philadelphus for his friendly dealing might be free from their furie but no salue I thinke can cure that sore for this will euer be true Inuidia virtutis comes Enuy followes vertue at the hard heeles not to treade in her steps but to trip vp her heeles if she could But to conclude I thinke all haue some kynde of conscience or other and there is magna vis conscientiae magna sayth Tully in vtramque partem vt nihil timeant qui nihil commiserint poenam semper ante oculos versariputent qui peccarint A cleere conscience will acquite continually where good meaning is but a canckred hart will alwayes accuse where froward dealing is and so farewell good Reader and iudge as thou seest cause and apply that which is spoken in good will to thine owne profite Vale. From Cambridge Iune the 24. Anno. 1588. T. P. To his louing freend Mayster Clowes IN tempests safe by Pylots skill we sayle In flattering snares true friendship vs vpholds From loathsome greese good comfort doth vs bayle These three in one Clowes Booke to vs vnfolds He stirres the helme and friendly comfort lends When surges rage when snares when griefe off ends When outward sores as boystrous waues do swell When venime hid as flattring tongues do sting When both as greese each hart with torments quell When naught but death doth seeme releefe to bring Then Clowes thy Pylot can from Sea to shore From payne to ioy from sicke to sound restore Once Aesculapius Theseus sonne did cure Machaon once did Philoctetes saue Their prayse for this vnsteyned doth endure Such iust reward good skill and knowledge haue Whome fame vnsought for followeth at the last Which sought for by vnskilfull flyes as fast Clowes as Apollos sonne by Art is sayd Not one but sundry Hippolites to saue And Banester Machaon seemes whose ayde As many Phyloctetes dayly craue How then shall these not liue in trumpe of same Since thousands cured shall extoll their name Amongst which sort my selfe although the last Yet not the least part of their cure did find Whose arme past cure an Atrophy did wast And sinewes shronke contracted out of kind Which past all skill vnskilfull Surgeons thought To health by skill these skilfull Surgeons brought But as the sweetest cloath the moathes do eate And freshest Rose the cancker seekes to spill And as the statelyest towres the winde doth beate And fretting lightning strikes the loftiest hill So enuy seekes the deadly foe of fame By slanderous toongs to hinder their good name The Dogs their vomit loues the Goates their crags The Swine delight to tumble in the mire Our common prouerbe telles that scuruie nags Are fittest for to please a scabbed squire No maruell then though folly such embrace Which seeke by lyes these skilfull mens disgrace Yet they shall shyne as gold that rusteth not When these as drosse with shame consumd shall lye Repining much that no report may blot The rightfull prayse which of these twayne shall flye So Momus shall with these compared fleet As doth the Beetle vnder Roses sweet Feare not therefore these slanderous toongs reports Which strike the best but bad vntoucht do saue Of your good names they batter not the forts But hating skilfull shew what skill they haue Continue fast strange cures procure your fame Do good and none but bad will touch your name T. P. Now as followeth is set downe those cures which by Gods helpe haue bene finished and brought to perfite health The cure of two Gentlemen greeuously burned with Gunpouder Chap. I. ALthough it bee the maner of Fugitiues and Landlepers which runne and gad from Countrey to Countrey and from towne to towne proclaiming their cures at the Market Crosse as did not long since one raunging runnagate who called himselfe Iohannes Petrus aliàs Scleeues which would needes take vpon him to cut of a great Wenne that long time had growne on
â„¥ ss Boyle together your Minium and Waxe til they be black then put in your Waxe and last your Camphyr And thus within the space of tenne weekes he was safely cured and his bone was agayne vnited and knit his splints and roullers were taken also away and the plasters that did remaine about his legge for the curing of the fractured bone was likewise remoued and thus I finished this cure as effectually as though he had neuer receiued hurt But if the Gangraene should yet haue increased as oftentimes I haue seene notwithstanding these and such like good remedies then the last helpe will be miserable that is to cut off the corrupt member in the whole and sound parts c. The maner and order of the taking or cutting off a mortified corrupt legge or arme which commeth oftentimes by reason of wounds made with Gunshot c. Chap. 8. SIth as I haue sayd that oftentimes it happeneth by reason of euill accidents which followe wounds made with Gunshot the whole member doth come to Gangraene Sideratio or Sphacelus so that we are many times constrayned forthwith to make a speedie dispatch to cut off the member which shal be done as Maister Gale verie skilfully hath appoynted in the whole and sound parts And if it so fall out or happen that a legge is to be cut off beneath the knee then let it be distant from the ioynt iiii inches and iii. inches aboue the knee and so likewise in the arme as occasion is offered These things being obserued and noted then through the assistance of almightie God you shall luckelie accomplish this work by your good industrie and diligence But you must bee very circumspect and carefull of all things which concerne the methodicall perfection of this worke that is you shall haue a great regard to the state of his bodie as also for euacuation and dyeting And after his bodie is prepared and purged then the same morning you doe attempt to cut off the member be it legge or arme let him haue two houres before some good comfortable Caudle or other broth according vnto the discretion of the learned Phisition or Chirurgion only to corroborate and strengthen his stomacke And in any wise omit not but that he haue ministred vnto him some good exhortation by the Minister or Preacher And you shall aduertise the friends of the patient that the worke you goe about is great and not without daunger of death for that many accidents or syntomies doe runne and flocke together vnto such great wounds which desperat euilles in such causes will many times admit no cure All which being considered then ordeyne the night before some good defensiue and let it be applyed two or three times about the member Rec. Emplastrum Diachalcitheos lib. j. ss ana â„¥ j. Succi semperuiui Succi plantaginis Succi Solani Olei ros â„¥ ij ss Olei myrtini â„¥ j. Ouorum albumin nu ij Aceti ros â„¥ j. Misce And oftentimes I haue vsed this with good successe An other defensiue Gale Rec. Boli armeniaci â„¥ viij Farinae hordei â„¥ iiij ana â„¥ ij Sanguinis Draconis Terrae sigillatae Olibani â„¥ j. ss Aceti â„¥ iiij Albumin ouorum q. s. Misce All which being well considered you shall haue in a readinesse a good strong fourme and a stedie and set the patient at the very ende of it then shall there bestride the fourme behinde him a man that is able to hould him fast by both his armes which done if the legge be to be taken of beneath the knee let there bee also an other strong man appoynted to bestride the legge that is to be taken of and he must hould fast the member aboue the place where the incision is to be made very stedily without shaking and he that doth so hould should haue a large hand and a good gripe whose hand may the better stay the bleeding but in some bodies it will not bee amisse to admit bleeding specially in such bodies as are of hot complexions and doe abound in bloud And I haue knowne through the skilfulnesse of the houlder not much aboue â„¥ iiii of bloud lost at a time but in weake bodies it may not bee suffered to loose much bloud for bloud is sayd to be the treasure of life for which cause a good houlder is not to be spared In like maner there must be an other skilfull man that hath good experience and knowledge to hould the legge belowe for the member must not be held too high for staying and choking of the saw neither must hee hould downe his hande too lowe for feare of fracturing the bones in the time it is a sawing off and he that doth cut off the member must bee sure to haue a sharpe sawe a very good catlin and an incision knife and then boldly with a stedie and quick hand cut the flesh round about to the bones without staying being sure that the Periostium or Panicle that couereth the bones bee also incised cut with the Nerue that runneth betweene the two bones of the legge which shall be done with your incision knife all this being orderly performed then set your sawe as neere the sound flesh as easely you may not touching it and with a light hand speedily sawe it off then hauing prepared also in a readines this restrictiue pouder to stay the fluxe of bloud The restrictiue powder Clowes Rec. Boli armeniaci â„¥ iij. ana â„¥ j. Sanguinis Draconis Aloes Olibani â„¥ j. ss ana â„¥ ss Terrae sigillatae Masticis Croci martis â„¥ ij Lapidis hematites â„¥ ss ana â„¥ j. Calcis ex testis ouorum Mummiae Gypsi â„¥ vj. Farinae volatilis â„¥ iiij Misce Take of this powder as will serue your turne and mixe with the sayd powder Pilorum leporis terrefact ouorum albumin ana quantum sufficet and let the Hare haires I say bee cut as fine as possible may bee so much as will bring it all to a reasonable thicknesse and when the powder is thus prepared before you cut off the member let there bee in like maner made for the purpose three or foure small boulsters or buttons fashioned in the top or vpper part like a Doues egge or as a Sugar lofe button flat in the bottome to the compasse of a French Crowne and round vpwards as aforesayd and these you shall make of fine Towe according to arte wrought vp in water and vineger wherevpon you shall applie some part of the restrictiue And when the boulder of the member aboue doth partly release the fast holding of his hand by little and little by which meanes you may the better perceiue see the mouthes of the veynes that are incised and cut and vpon the endes of those large veynes that are incised and cut you shall place the round endes of these three or foure small buttons and vpon them presently without tariance place a round thicke bed of Tow made vp in
did wrap the whole mēber round about cum Emplastro Diachalciteos disolued in Oleo Rosarū Lumbricorū which did greatly strengthen the weake member And thus by Gods helpe by this manner of method he was restored againe to his former health of the part wounded And here I finish this short note or obseruation the which I do most hartely desire all young students to take in good part and to accept of this vntill it shall please some learneder man of greater giftes and iudgement to publish a more profitable worke the which hartely I wish as knoweth God who direct both you and me in all lawfull proceedings and practises in the arte The cure of a certaine straunger which was wounded or thrust through his thigh with a Rapier by one of his owne countrymen being combatting and fighting together The cure thereof was somewhat hard and difficult by reason he was further touched with the french disease before he receiued his wound c. IMmediatly after hée had receiued his wound or thrust through his thigh I was sent for vnto this cure the patient lying at a straungers house in the Crouched Friers ye shall vnderstand he had a very strong fat and corpulent bodie and so a very bigge thigh he was a man about thirtie yeeres of age all which being considered concerning the state and strength of his bodie and the greatnes of the place wounded then for the cure thereof I did ordayne a flamula made of fine Lawne the which dipped in Oleo Hypericonis cum gummis and with a néedle made of Whales bone fit for such purposes I did drawe the sayd flamula into the wound and I did leaue both the ends thereof hanging foorth at the Orifices of this wound putting also a small tent in the dependant or lowest part of the wound and the largest Orifice which was at the inside of his thigh and there it did rest for the space of two daies applying also thereto for the staying of the bloud Galen his pouder and aboue the wound I layd a very good defensiue after I did bolster and roule it vp according as arte did leade me The second day at night he did require me to dresse him againe for because the night before he sayd he was troubled with a feauer as he supposed it to bee and was so perswaded by other and for that cause he entertayned a Phisition a countrie man of his for to cure his Agewe and also to see his wound Now when the wound was opened it was without tumor or any other euill symptomes only I foūd a bloudy saines for that cause I vsed next with the flamula a very good digestiue the which I dipped in Oleo rosarum melle rosarum ana q. s. and left to vse the Oyle of Hypericon The next day in the morning he complayned of extreame payne which he had suffered all that night then I opened the wound and I did finde it as before wherewith he was somewhat disquieted in bodie and minde Then I drest him agayne and he was very quiet and well all that day and at night the wound tended towards digestion which was me thought very well to be liked of but the next day in the morning it was more worse then before a stinking bloudie sanies and the next day at night the matter was indifferent yet in the morning by no meanes I could procure concoct or digest matter notwithstanding the best digestiues and other good medicines vsed So the Phisition and the rest of his countrie men thought somewhat amisse in me for that the patient his wound did prosper no better And in like manner I thought somewhat in the Phisition for that he could not finde out the reason and cause of his supposed feauer To come vnto the purpose at the next opening in the presence of his hoste of the house where he did lye which was his interpretour I desired him to demaund of the patient when and where his paynes did most afflict him He answered in the night time and chiefly in his head and also his shoulders legges and armes al which were very sore grieued and tormented Then I was the bolder to proceed in examination and asked of him if he had any breaking out in some particular parts of his bodie He aunswered no but only a fewe Scabbes in his head the which he did not perceiue but since he was hurt and kept his bed and further he sayd he was very sore grieued with the Emoroydes or Piles which for the basenes of the place he sayd he was vnwilling to acquaint any man with Then I plainly told him he was touched with the French disease So I being loth to giue offence sayd little more at that time because I perceiued hee had my words in disdaine vntill he had better considered with himselfe And agaynst my next comming he caused the Phisition to méete with me So after he had also seane and heard the whole matter he likewise confirmed my sayings that certainly it was the French disease Why sayd the patient to the Doctor doth our countrie yeeld such fruite and I being no Frenchman He aunswered God plagueth most part of the world with that disease only for our sinnes and wickednesse So order was taken by vs presently we entered him in cure for that sicknesse But here it is to be noted that in all this time I did neuer alter or chaunge mine intention of curing neither did I leaue of the vse of the flamula vntill the wound was perfectly digested which we could by no meanes procure vntil he was entered sixe daies in the diet and then altogether I left of my digestiues and the vse of the flamula and vsed but short tents with good iniections and also Oleum Hypericonis with other conuenient remedies méete for this cure In the end when the patient did perceiue he was almost cured he would as it were merely seeme to excuse himselfe and being as it seemed partly ashamed of his disease protested vnto vs with many incredible speeches and vntrueths that he did not vnderstand how he should come by the disease no more then he did knowe how or whether the Ocean seas did ebbe or flowe or not vnlesse it were by traueiling ouer the Alpes or with drinking of Snowe water These his ridiculous reasons I accepted as winde It sufficeth I say that he was cured So he was glad of his health and I nothing sorie of his liberalicie Yet he was to be borne withall for I haue not heard of many that would willingly vouchsafe to confesse the originall and taking of such infirmities But what if he had It is not our functions or callings that be Chirurgions to reueale the secrets of our patients as we are taught by the ordinances of our elders and auncient fathers that went before vs. The cure of a man which receiued a notable wound in his head with great fracture of the skull and did moreouer fracture the
bone of the thigh called Osfemoris by a fall out of a gallerie in the Beare garden at that time when the Beare garden did fall downe and did kill and hurt many I Haue thought it good afore I enter into the briefe note or obseruation of this cure partly to signifie vnto all young students in this arte that such great wounds in the head with fracture of the skull are holden generally of the best professors and practizers to be most perillous and daungerous The bone being compressed vpon the panicle Dura mater for which cause at the very beginning of this cure I did shaue or cut the haire away round about the wound then with my finger I made further probation into the wound and there I did manifestly feele a notable fracture or breach in the skull on the left side of his head vpon the bone called Os Petrosum which as is before said was depressed vpoÌ„ the panicle Dura mater And for that the fracture of the skull was greater in length then the wound in the flesh for that cause without detracting of time I made incision and so followed the fracture vntill all the rift or crackt bone was wholy discouered When I did see and behold the full length of the fracture or breach in the skull and had raysed vp the flesh then for that I could not at that present time proceede any further in this busines because of the great fluxe of bloud and the rather for that he had lost a great quantitie of bloud before he was brought home to his lodging All which being considered I filled the wound with pleggets and runlets made of lint and very sine towe wet in the whites of Egges being mixed with Galen his powder Then after with good bolstering and roulling he remayned thus vntil the next day and then hauing also a present regard vnto the preseruation of the fracture of his thigh as hereafter I 〈…〉 lie to set dowâ—e the true manner and 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this great fracture and wound in his head â—et amongst other things I thought 〈◊〉 good alâ—â— to â—ore hert vnto you that the patients maister and other of his friends did signifie 〈◊〉 me that h◠〈…〉 of â—â—â—d account and for that cause they were â—e more 〈…〉 I would deâ—â—eâ—e truely vnto them wâ—â—â— dâ—ungâ— I thought he was in that they might also signifi iâ—â—â—to other of his 〈◊〉 in the countrie Then I considered with my selfe I was then to speake before men of worship wisedome and learning vnto whom I was to deliuer mâ—â—e 〈◊〉 And calling to 〈◊〉 remembraunce some part of the wise sayings of Guido Tagaultius and others whose good counsell herein is thankfully to be embraced and followed When then arâ— say they called before a Magistrate or head Officer or any other graue and wise man and that thou are required â—o deliuer thine opinion sen ence and iudgement vppou the person wounded and to prognosticatâ— as much as arte requireth it behoueth thee diligently and effectually to marke the wound or wounds if there be many and shall shalt truely call the same wound or wounds by their expresse and proper names together with the place wounded Then after it behoneth thee to consider with thy selfe the cause or thy coniecture and the reason of thy sentence and iudgement by thee deliuered wisely and prudently least thou tayle in thy iudgement and so shewe sâ—y selfe to be either 〈…〉 rent or els deceiued c. So briefly here I could them that he was not without great daimger partly by reason the 〈…〉 was sore shaken with the fall and also for that the â—one was broken and depressed vpon Dura mater which were 〈…〉 causâ—â— that did hâ—â—der his speech and â— it could not be 〈◊〉 at the 〈…〉 or dressing by reason of the great 〈…〉 oud â—owbeâ—t I did hope of some amendment after â— hâ—â— pearced the skull with the Trepan Other sp 〈…〉 I hâ—â— as touching his vomâ—â—ing the greatnesse of his wound with the fracture of his skull and 〈…〉 sâ—eake â—â—â—e of hereafter in 〈…〉 I caused them to hang all his chamber 〈◊〉 about with Couerleâ—s and other hangings and made it 〈◊〉 darke and without any light or ayre but only by a candle because in this câ—se ayre is very hurtfull Then at the second 〈◊〉 after 〈…〉 eâ—ed the wound and taken away all 〈…〉 wound was filled for the resâ—rayning 〈…〉 it did require with all expedition to make vâ—nâ— or way 〈…〉 to come foorth therefore I caused thâ—n strong men stedfastly to stay his head with their hands and 〈◊〉 â—opped his eares with wooll then I did set on the Trepan and so pearced the skull through both the tables in two places and then with an Instrument called â— Leuatorie I raysed vp the depressed bone with great care and diligence for feare of procuring further accidents which being doue presently his speech amended And vpon Dura mater I found a good quantitie of congeled bloud which presently I remoued for feare of payne and inflammation After the bloud with speede was taken away there was also very apparent to be seene a certaine blacknes vpon Dura mater for the which cause I did put betweene Dura mater and the skull in the â—â—ead of a syndall that Vigo commendeth a fine 〈…〉 wne dipped in Melle Ros and vpon the fracture of the 〈…〉 I applyed actually hot Olei Ros Aquae vitae 〈…〉 with â—â—â—t so filled vp the wound and at other 〈…〉 I vsed vpon pleggets of lint this Unguent which is called Vnguentum caprifolij that I found then 〈◊〉 in Maister Gales second booke of his Antidotarie but since that time I haue found it in Wecker and diu 〈…〉 â—thers Rec. ana â„¥ iiij Terebinthinae Resinae pini Cerae nouae Olei Rosati â„¥ viij ana â„¥ j. Masticis Thuris Gummi elemnij â„¥ ij ana â„¥ iij. Caprifolij Betonicae Vini optimi lib. x. The Woodbine and Betonie being stamped let them stand infused in the wine foure and twentie houres then adde to them al the other parcels except the Gummes Frankensence and Masticke boyle these on a cleere fire vntill halfe part of the wine be consumed and that it begin to waxe greene then strayne it and let it coole then boyle it agayne vntill the wine be consumed then strayne it agayne and adde to the rest of the parcels in fine powder then put it in a cold place and reserue it to your vse After as I sayd I had preserued the wound with these remedies here rehearsed then I applyed also ouer all the aforesayd medicines this plaister of Betony and at last I annoynted his head round about the wounds with Oleo Rosarum and ouer all this a good bed or cap of towe and then with blosterings and roulling I finished this dressing c. Rec. Gummi elemnij â„¥ iiij Resinae â„¥ viij Cerae â„¥ vj. Gummi armoniaci â„¥ iiij Terebinthinae â„¥ vj. Succi Betonicae â„¥ x. Misce
aforesayd decocted Balme â„¥ ii and added also therewith of Lipsius â„¥ i. Misce This excellent mundisicatiue stayed also the thinne glyâ—â—â—g humour that flowed from the ioynt which remedies be published in Folio 70. But by reason there of some ouersight the doses are left out with other faults in the forepart of the booke which passed vnawares and cannot bee holpen vntill the next impression Rec. Mellis com lib. ij Vitrioli albi â„¥ iiij Succi caprifolij lib. iij. Misce The order of making is before described Now after the wound was perfectly mundified and all accidents remooued then by the counsell of a learned man both in Phisicke and Chirurgery I was required to vsed VnguentuÌ„ NicotianuÌ„ which he sayd had wrought wonders aboue beliefe But I found not that effect in it that he and I looked for Neuerthelesse I acknowledge it to bee a medicine not to be dispraysed But this Vnguent since it was first knowne is greatly bettered by Iosephus Quercetanus with others so I left of the vse of Vnguentum NicotianuÌ„ after this description here following And I vsed with great profite vnto the patient Vnguentum Basilicon magistrale hereafter also published Rec. Fol. Nicotiani lib. j. Let the leaues be well stamped and after strayned out as strongly as possible may be then adde thereunto ana â„¥ iij. Cerae nouae Resinae Olei com Let all these boyle together vnto the consumption of the iuyce then adde Terebinthinae Venetae â„¥ iij. Boyle all together a little and reserue it vnto your vse Rec. ana â„¥ ij Olei Chamaemeli Olei Ros completi ana â„¥ j. ss Olei masticis Olei de Terebinthina Olei de semin lini Terebin clarissimae â„¥ .iiij. ana â„¥ ij ss Sepi vitulin Castrati Hirci ana m. j. Rosmarini Betonicae Caudae equinae Centaureae maior Vermium terestrium lotorum cum vino â„¥ .iij. Rubiae tinctorum a little brused Ê’ .x. ana m. j. Hypericonis foliorum Sem. ana Ê’ x. Masticis Gummi elemni ana â„¥ j. ss Picis naualis Resinae pini recentis ana Ê’ iij. Serapini Galbani Armoniaci Misce Disolue these threeâ— Gummes in vineger and bruse the other things and so let them rest and after boylethem all together with a â—iath of odoriferous wine then strayne them strongly and put to the sayd strayning ana â„¥ ij ss Lithargyrij auri Argentei Minij â„¥ ij Misce Boyle these together agayne with a soft fire afterward ye shall augment the fire vntill the sayd oyntment bee blacke in colour which done make hereof an vnguent with sufficient newe waxe c. This vnguent is commended of Vigo and many other excellent men to be singular good for all wounds of the sinewes and also in other wounds it is of merueilous efficacie And sith it is thus manifest vnto our eyes that many famous cures hath been done by this worthie vnguent truely I see no cause why wee should withdrawe our selues and to leaue the vse of it Now here it is to be noted if in all this time the flesh offered to rise spungious then I did rebate and take it away with Mercurie praecipitate and sometimes with Allume combust in Aceto Ros And with the sayd vnguents I also vsed this approued Oyle called Oleum Aparisij Rec. Olei communis veteris lib. iij. Terebinthinae Abietinae lib. ij Vini albi veteris electi lib. ss Olibani triti lib. ss Frumenti purgati â„¥ iiij vel â„¥ vj. Hypericonis lib. ss ana â„¥ iiij Valerianae Cardui Benedicti Misce Infuse the herbes being brused in white wine sixe or eight houres then adde thereto the wheate and oyle and so melt them at an easie fire to the consumption of the wine After strayne them and then put to the Turpentine and Olibanum and so boyle it at a soft fire to perfection I was greatly troubled in the drying or skinning vp of his wound notwithstanding the vse of Vnguentum desiccatiuum Vnguentum deminio or any other whatsoeuer vntil I had vsed therewith this remedie following Rec. Aquae vitae â„¥ iiij Alluminis Ê’ iij. Camphorae Ê’ j. ss Misce Thus by Gods helpe and good medicines I finished this cure with Desiccatiues and Conglutinatiues and he was agayne recouered but the motion perished for he had the imperfection of a stiffe knee which constrayned him to vse a leather strappe fastened vnto the toe of his shoo and agayne made fast vnto his bodie and so he remayneth vntill this day Here were time and place to induce me to publish many other obseruations but I will not willingly molest the Reader with being too tedious And I do confesse I haue shewed my my selfe to be more willing then able to perfourme this work I haue taken in hand Neuerthelesse I wish you much ioy and felicitie in al your studies with increase of knowledge whereby you may aduaunce your fame and credite vnto your Arte and profession Amen Apply thyself and vse thy wit to Lady learnings lore She 'le garnish thee with wisedome great and knowledge more and more The conclusion of a wicked brood of beastly abusers of Phisicke and Chirurgerie daylie more and more increasing to the vtter vndoing of many as here briefly shall be declared IN this my collection gentle and vertuous reader I meane by Gods permissioÌ„ and your courteous patience here truely and faithfully to deliuer vnto thy viewe the manifold and iniurious abuses of a disordered number of proulling women daylie practising Phisicke and Chirurgerie within this Citie of London and the liberties of the same whose knowledge and iudgements I say is fallible and vncertaine whereby they are the causes of many hidden mischiefes Therefore without further protestation I will as briefly as I can for examples sake as it were poynt at a few in respect of the rest which abusers are bred and crept in amongst vs through sufferance with whom notwithstanding I must bee temperate and milde in this my writing and not to speake all I knowe for their number is great and they haue many friends that spred their fame farre There is I say knowne to be in London which daylie do practise Chirurgerie of straunge women borne beyond the seas called of some cunning or wise women more in number then there are of Surgeons lawfully allowed and admitted according vnto the lawes and statutes of this Realme being fit men to do her Maiestie seruice in their Arte. There be also in like maner at this present to be found in London besides those aforesayd of our owne Countrie women that hath neither wit nor arte which daylie practise Phisicke and Chirurgerie I will say little of their dealing in Phisicke because it is also openly knowne farre more in number then there is of the straunge women But all these abusers practise Chirurgerie without any penaltie and punishment and the most part of these haue husbands of diuers honest trades and occupations and thereby are very well able to
liue and maintaine themselues according to their calling Yet all that will not serue the turne for my good mistris his wife will needes become a Phisition and a Surgeon and forsooth he must followe her presumptious minde to paynt her out in sâ—â—kes veluets in the highest degree for that carrieth credite to her cunning and brings in mouie plentifully A thing greatly to be lamented or rather pitied that these blind and ignorant women should be thus fostered and suffered for they are and will be the causers of many euils whereby her Maiestie shall haue great want of sufficient and skilfull Chirurgeons to be found in England able to do seruice in the time of warres And vnlesse God of his mercifull goodnes do moue the hearts of godly Magistrates for spâ—â—â—â— redresse they will bee the only ouerthrowe of Chi 〈…〉 in this land For it is come to passe at this day 〈…〉 â—â—n being of any credite or account that hath brought 〈…〉 in learning the which is greatly to be required in a good Chirurgeon but he refuseth to put him to be an apprentise vnto the Arte of Surgerie And why Because there are in these dayes in towne and countrie such a number of abusers that practise Chirurgerie which are the onely doers and cause of all these euills It may seeme vncredible that there is not at this present time of sufficient and able Chirurgeons to bee found in London scarse halfe the number which were lately employed in her Maiesties seruice with Generall Norice Sir Fraunces Drake And yet the greater fort of those that are gone are very poore men and so poore in deede that some of them went out very slenderly furnished some with a little Chirurgerie stuffe in a schollers satchell other some in budgets bagges being very vnfit furniture to serue in her Maiesties seruice Unfortunate and vnhappie shall that Souldier be that tasteth of these Surgeons wants And the chiefe causers of these euills are those abusers aforesayd Moreouer what a pitifull thing is it to heare that at their departure from their poore wiues and children leauing them in such extreme necessitie 〈…〉 they arriued at the first Port their wiues and children complayned and craued to haue some succour releefe But who hath succoured or relieued them that is best knowne to themselues And if their necessitie be such at their going out what will be their state in time Or els if by fortune of warres some of them be cut off then these poore women and children may liue in great miserie And the causers of these euilis bée these abusers aforesaid Also I cannot in this place passe ouer in silence sith it is come vnto my memorie a newe litter of abusers of Surgerie and the professors thereof and they are start out of their kenell of late deuising amongst themselues a trade neuer seene nor heard on before and these do hunt after hurt and wounded met and al other persons whatsoeuer be it maister or mistris manseruant or mayd c. if they bee affected with any kinde of griefe belonging to Surgerie With all such persons they will take acquaintance although peraduenture they neuer sawe some of them afore and then like pettie foggers or counterfeyt brokers craftely will inquire what Surgeon looketh on them and if they say they are vnprouided then they will cast a figure offer them their seruice presently to fetch the only man in the towne This proffered seruice many takes very kindly and promising to acquite his courtesie if he will performe his sayings Then without further ado packs away this pettie fogger deuising where he may make his best market And in the ende finding a fit man for his purpose he begins to babble for his brokerige after this manner There is a friend of mine sayth he and one of my old acquaintance is wounded and hurt c. and for very good will I am come to you before another because I knowe you are a skilfull man Neuerthelesse I am a good fellowe as you knowe and therfore I will looke to haue a share for my paynes because I bring the cure vnto you What is your meaning sayth he It is thus if you do make three pounds of the cure I will then haue of it twentie shillings and you shall haue twentie shillings towards your medicines and twentie shillings more for your paynes and yet you may say I do befriend you for I haue had diuers times the one halfe of others An old saying need makes the old wife trot The good man had rather giue part of the fruites of his labour vnto this proulling fellowe wherein he hath no right then he would sit still and want to sustayne himselfe and his familie These iniuries are most grieuous that bring thus with them innumerable of inconueniences And remedie there is none to bridle such pillers and poullers O Lord what a sort of these euils follow immediatly one after another Consider I beseech you how Chirurgerie in these daies is promoted aduaunced when such men which haue a long time practised this profession with credite and good liking are constrayned for want of maintenance to giue ouer the Arte cleane and now forced to liue by other kind of trades And the causers of all these abuses are the abusers in this booke published Thus courteous and louing Reader I haue waded into the very bottome of mine abilitie but yet I confesse I still find nothing answerable vnto my well meaning yet alwaies I rest in this hope that that which I haue here in all my discourse spoken without offence vnto any good man may the easâ—ier be past ouer without any griefe to me at all but if any do here at picke quarels or maligne my doings marke them well as I haue before sayd and you shall perceiue them to bée some of those galdbacke Jades which I haue touched to the quicke Now last of all only it resteth that if it shall please God that these my labours bee so happie as to content my louing Patrones I meane all the true professors of Chirurgerie wheresoeuer referring the view vnto their good considerations censures and iudgements expecting all your friendly supportation and thus I leaue you in the Lord who knoweth that all our labours are done in vayne except he in mercie prosper them Amen Finis William Clowes Maister in Chirurgerie VVheÌ„ valiaÌ„t Mars with braue warlike band In foughten feeld with sword sheeld doth staÌ„d May there be mist a Surgeon that is good To salue your wounds and eke to stay your blood To cure you sure he will haue watchfull eye And with such wights he meanes to liue and dye So that agayne you must augment his store And hauing this he will request no more THE SVRGEONES CHEST VVith willing minde good Reader I thee craue To weigh the toyle and carefull paynes men haue VVhich once begins to do such VVorks as this May sometimes erre and runne his pen
Anodinum 15 Cataplasma Fallopii 22 Cataplasme for inflamations 55 Cataplasmes for bruses and ceasing of paine 56 Cataplasme for a Gangraena 59 Cataplasme for windy tumors 70 Cataplasme to suppurate impostumes 82 Cataplasme to cease paine 129 Cataplasme for a schiâ—â—hous tumor ibid. Causes of Morbus Gallicus 100 Cautions to bee obserued to escape Morbus Gallicus 111 Cerotum resolutiuum 7â— Cerotum mundificatiuum 74 Cerote for Morbus Gallicus 126 Cerote for paine in the ioynts 127 Cicatrizing water for Vlcers 81 Choller in Morbo Gallico 119 Clister to drawe backe paine of the head 129 Corrosiue powder 8 Corrosiue powder strong 14 Collirium for vlcers in the yard 130 Cure of two Gentlemen greeuously burnt with Gunpowder 1 Cure of a Merchant of London wouÌ„ded with Gunshot 5 Cure of Andrewe Fones hurt with Gunshot 8 Cure of a Souldier that was wounded with gunshot which turned to a Fistula 12 Cure of Henry Rhodes of diuers wounds made by the breaking of a peece 17 Cure of Henry Battey hurt by the breaking of a Dagge 20 Cure of a Souldier shot into the leg which turned to a Gangrena 21 Cure of one that cut his own throat 49 Cure of Morbus Gallious 103 D Defensiues 7. 9. 17. 26. 49. 22 Defensatiuum Emplustrum 41 Declaration of the tree of signes 117 Decoction of Guâ—icum 124 Digestiu to preserue a wounded part 9 Digestiues 19. 30 Digestiue vsed coÌ„tused wounds 35 Digestiue to remoue escares 78 Dislocations 144 Doubts discussed concerning Morbus Gallicus 112 E Electuary to confirme the cure and preuent the comming againe of Morbus Gallicus 123 Electuary purging for Morbus Gallicus 128 Emplastrum nigrum 24 Emplastrum de Peto 30 Emplastrum defensatiuum 41 Emplastrum Paracelsi 52 Emplastrum Stipticum 53 Emplastrum resoluendum 54 Emplastrum consoliditiuum ibid. Emplast to be vsed for a dry stitch 55 Emplast to keepe open issues ibid. Emplast Epispatices 60 Emplast meliloti 73 Emplast Aromatizatum Kebâ—â— 72 Emplast mucilaginum album ibid. Emplast for inveterate vlcers 74 Emplast to resolue nodes 75 Emplast for hard swellings in Womens breasts 76 Emplast Arcaei for woundes in the head 79 Emplast Betony for the same ibid. Emplast Vigonis ad Idem 80 Eâ—â—â—pelas 218 F Fistulaes 149 Flos vâ—gâ—entorum 69 Fomentation for the ripening of a Bubo 128 Fractures in generall 150 Fume for drying of Vlcers 128 G Gangraena 154 Gargarisme 18 Gargarisme for vlcers in the mouth 125 H Hemorrhagia 155 Hemrhoydes 156 Hernia 157 I Iniectio mundificatiua 11 Iniection of Tagaltius 15 Iniection for hollow vlcers 59 Iniection to dry vp vlcers 139 L Liniment for windy tumors 71 Liniment to cease paine 74 LinimeÌ„t for wounds in the head 80 Lixiuium Ambrose Parey 21 Lixiuium for a Gangraena 60 Lixiuium to take away warts 71 Londradâ—es oyle for gunshot 35 Lues Venerea 159 M Maturatiue plaister 60 Measels and the iudgementes thereof 179 Medicine for the pinne and webbe in the eyes 72 Medicines and howe to Minister them 167 Mucilage plaister white 73 Mundisicatiues 7. 55 Mundificatiuum optimuÌ„ Vigonis 24 Mundificatiuum vnguentum 30 Mundificatiuum Francisci Rasis 38. Mundificatiue for hollow and plaine vlcers 66 Mundificatiuum lipsium 70 O Obseruations for wounds in the belly 39 Obseruations for purging wounded persons 85 Obseruations to be notified in the opening of Apostumes 139 Oedema and the determination 169 Oleum Catellorum 36 Oleum Londradâ— 35 Omentum wounded and the cure thereof 42 Opthalmia the times and the preceedings 170 Order of taking of a mortified member 25 Oyle most excellent for all inflamations to cause sleepe and cease paine in the Gout 75 Oyle for conuulsions proceeding of wounds in the nerues 76 Oyle necessarie for conuulsions 77 Oyntment for pustules in the face ex Morbo Gallico 124 P Phlebotomy and the vse therof 176 Pilles to purge in Morbo Gallico 129 Pouder to take away proud flesh 68 PotioÌ„ purging for Morbo Gallico 126 Pouder to take away wartes about Praeputium 71 Praecipitate white 123 Puluis corosiuus fortis 14 Puluis restrictiue 27 Puluis sine Pari. 69 Pus and the iudgement 193 R Rasuis plaister to be keep open issues 55 Remedies good for burning with powder 4 Resolutiue cerote 73 Restrictiue powder 57. 27 S Signs of choller in Morbo Galiico 119 Signes of flegme and melancholy in the same 120 Sinewes stitched 191 Sparadrap plaister 6â— Sparadrap mollificatiuum ibid. Spiced plaister M. Keble 72 T Tinea or skales in the head 175 Turbith Minerale 122 Tumors the difference according to the humor 176 V Vlcers and their iudgements 192 Vlcers varicous 196 Vlcers filthy 200 Vnguent for burning with pouder 3. 4. 59 62 Vnguent de Peto 12 Vnguentum mundisicatiuum ibid. 81 Vnguent de minio 20 Vnguent Aegyptiacum 21 Vnguent Tetraphamacon 23 Vnguent Ceraseos paruum 24 Vnguent mundificatiuum 30 Vnguent Desiccatiuum 32 Vnguent to be vsed with tent or flamula 34 Vnguent consolidatiuum 49 Vnguent incarnatiuum 61 Vnguent for inflamations 62 Vnguent Neruorum 63 Vnguent Apii 65 Vnguent Populeon 66 Vng. mundisicatiuum magistrale 67 Vnguent mollificatiuum ibid. Vnguent Sanatiuum 68 Vnguent infrigidans Galeni 70 Vnguent Resinae ibid. Vnguent for the cramp 77 Vnguent for the Hemrhoyds 73 Vnguent Nutritum 78 Vnguent incarnatiuuÌ„ regis Angliae 81 Vnguent Viride 82 Vnguent pro Morbo Gallico 125. 127 Vnguent to open a Bubo 128 Vnguent for Scabbe and itch 130 W Wounds and the iudgements thereof in particular members 182 Wounds in the ioynts 188 Wounds in the Sinewes 189 FINIS Infallible signes of their vild dispositions Too foule or impudent a fault in challengers or â—auillers This fellow is so wise in his owne conceit that he renounceth to follow the method and wayes of euring after Hipocrates and Galen because they were Heathen men I aunswere with the sayings of the godly wise and learned that he which 〈◊〉 a Christian will liue as a Christian and yet may take Physick and Surgery of a â—ew if he haue skill Such abuse is neuer wincked at but when idiots ruleth the rost there the iust may be oppressed and many a good cause troden vnder soote There is no friendship to be had with such honest men Not. 1. The greatest barkers are not the best biters Truth can neuer so well appeare as when it is compared with deceite and falsehood The more ignorant they are the more bolder they are and yet hate to be â—eproued The foolish perswasion of naked experience hath deceyued a great many Beware of hypocrisie shadowed vnder the cloke of frendship and amitie Note A signe of a good conscience Mâ—â— sap D. B. Iosephus Quirsitanus Jacobus Weâ—kerus Cataplasma Clowes Arceus Apozema Iniectio Mundificatiua Vigon This iniection doth mundifie incarne consolidate Angeli Bolognini Restrictiui Pigestiâ—â—m Francisci Rasij Mundificatiuum The cure of one Henry Battey a Cheesemonger of London Lixiuium Am. Parrei Mundificatiuum optimum Vigon Vnguentum Ceraseos
paruum Mesuae Defensiue Cloweâ— In hot complexions we are many times constrained the second or third day to open a veyne only to preuent a feuer and in bodies of euill constitutioÌ„ It is also very necessary to emptie or loose the bellie by suppositories or Clisters if cause so require c. Also he must haue a good quicke eye a strong arme and a stout heart Emplastrum de Peto or Hyosciami lutei Clowes If you adde to of Cerae one ounce it is not amisse The yron is most excelleÌ„t but that it is offensiue to the eye and bringeth the patient to great sorowe and dread of the burning and smart Am. Parrie A note or obseruation This oyle doth appease paynes and also remoueth the brused or contused flesh Am. Parrie It is more tollerable in him that praiseth his owne vertues than he that bosteth of other mens deedes Stealing of same credit is the onely marke such shoote at Clowes Obseruatio There was ioyned with me in this cure Maister Clowe a very expert skilful ChirurgioÌ„ Note Madame Danueilâ— B 〈…〉 Obseruatio Vnguentum consolidatiâ—â— Deâ—ensiuâ— Balme Am. Paâ—â—ie Balme Aâ—deâ—â—aâ—â—â— Balme 〈…〉 Note Emplastrum sticticum Paracelst I. B. I. B. I. B. Franciscus Rasius Chirurgion to the French King Calmetheus Valeniola Maister Galâ— powder Pul. Galenâ— Tagaltius A drinke for a Fistula Master Keble Maister Keble Odoâ—phus O 〈…〉 Vigo I. B. Iosephus Quirsitanus Maister Keble Vnguentum populeon 〈…〉 Weeken Weckerus Maister Keble Maister Keble A good powder to take away â—pungious flesh Pâ—â—â—shâ—e pare Iohannes A deu Emplastrum flos vngueâ—â—oâ—â—â— â—â—psium Vnguentum in frigidans Galeni Vnguentum resinae which doth mund fiâ— incarne and staâ—â—th the mucilage or gleeting humour specially about the 〈…〉 〈…〉 Maister Keble Mundificatiuum Franciscus Rasius Franciscus Rasius I. B. Pâ—â—nâ—â— I. B. Vnguentum pro Spasmo I. B. Mâ—â—â—â— Goodâ—â—â—â—â— Aâ—â—â—â—â— Arâ—â—us 〈…〉 A plaster for wounds in the head Vigo Quercetani Rex Angliae I. B. Andernacu◠〈◊〉 Many good Ships are as it were become eâ—ges for such vncleane birds the more is thâ— pitie 〈…〉 Quercetanus N. 〈◊〉 Paracelsus Vigo Clowâ—â— Ignorance engendereth error The more the worse He hath meâ—â— selowes that will poynt at other mens faults and forget their own Reasons according to his rudenes Note that old things bee enemies vnto the sinewes 〈◊〉 Vigo Valeriola Weckâ—â— Vnguentum aureum Heben Mesuâ— He was a yong PhisitoÌ„ scarse skilfull in the arte of Chirurgerie though otherwise well learned They 〈◊〉 neither â—â—oroydes nor P 〈…〉 es viâ—let his correction but the F. P. Such wounds are sildom voyd of accidents vntill the 〈◊〉 be perfectly diâ—ested Vnguentunâ— Capriâ—olij Wecker Emplastruâ— Betonicae It is supposed not to be good for to ouer busie our selues in these wounds of the head in the full of the Moone without great cause constrayne vs. Strong 〈…〉 〈…〉 〈…〉 i. â—c 〈◊〉 â—ie in strong bodies but 〈◊〉 weake personâ— it is â—o 〈…〉 deâ—â—â—ed according to theâ— strength 〈…〉 Spâ—â—nts also made with the â—â—abbards of swords I haue â—â—â—d with like â—â—â—â—ite vnto 〈…〉 ent In matters â— danger shâ—â— not to aske counsell least when it is too late thou do then repent thee Some dead and some aliue Keble Note This manifest 〈…〉 needeth no witnesses Potus Antiochiae Guido Wecker Bloud may not be suffered in a wound specially if it be congealed Many good men are subiect to iniurious reports the subtile seedes of enuy Commendations of certaine trauellers and of their traueiling Neuer trust a warrenter Nor a bosting bragger A runnagate fugitiue Nor a lying quack saluer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 must stand as â—â—awe for his countenance 〈◊〉 credite Cast away your Chirurgicall Instruments your plaister boxes and saluatories if Chirurgerie may as it were thus bee â—ent oâ— thrust vp in a bottle 〈◊〉 a bagge He learned it of slaunderers like vnto himselfe only to discredite some persons enuied The fruites of shameles malice Beware of â—â—aude in frendly lookes Note To be hated for doing of good is not to be esteemed but to be reprooued for euill is the reward of euill A singular decocted Oyle or Balme Emplastrum Tâ—â—â—pharmacum Mâ—sâ—â— Cataplasma Clowes Dolor and paâ—nesis as it were a ventose or cupping glasse in drawing matter to the affected place Vnguentum Basilicon magistrale OleuÌ„ Aparisij Note this for a speciall Oyle for all wounds generally Such 〈◊〉 〈…〉 cannot be enough â—pokeâ— of Disordred shifters and abusers of Chirurgerie The Definiâ—â—â—◠〈◊〉 The Oynâ—ment O◠〈…〉 An oyntment A good caueat of a bawdie Spanyard Doubt 1. Doubt â— In this and perhaps some poynt or two moe the Authors iudgment fayled him as in some things we fayle all Signes of Choler Signes of Fleagme Signes of Melancholie â—eware none of our blinde or common practizers that brag of euery new inuented mediâ—en which they gleane or steale from others do with vnwashed hands presume to giue or minister this worthy remedy without the counsell of the learned Georg. Melich Augeriâ—s Ferrariâ—â— Auger Fe 〈…〉 â—â—â—â—◠〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Fâ—â—â— â—ugâ—r Fâ—â—r â— â— Botallus Andreas Matthiol Note this vnguent for a secret of miâ—e owne experience Andr. Matth. Andr. Matth. Nicholaus Massa I. P. Rondolet I. B. I. B. Ambrosius Pâ—â—â—us 〈◊〉 Ambros Pâ—â—â—us 558 Initium Apostematis Augmentum Status Declinatio Intentiones 4. in apostematibus curandis Ad suppurationem vel declinationem â—â—rde prouâ—â—entia Rubri coloris Ad suppurationem iam peruenta Suppurationem recusanâ—â— In augmentâ— vtenda Pulsationem habentia Apostematis corruptio Apostematum Terminatio Apostematum materia Apostematum febre De materia adusta Apostematum morbi Meâ—brorum 〈…〉 In declinationeâ—â—â—ine quae fugâ—enda RepercutieÌ„tia In augmento statu res vtendae Materiâ— fluctuante Cerebri Apoâ—tema 〈…〉 Apostema Cordis Apost â—â—â—â—â— Apost Fluxus 〈…〉 â—â—ium Apostema liepatis 〈…〉 〈…〉 Renum Apostem Intestinis gracilibus Vesicae Apost Colli Apost In oculis Apost In Ano. Virgae Apost In pectore senum Circa iuacturam In spina Circa linguae radices Paâ—tibus carnosis Emunctorijs A venenosi 〈…〉 I 〈…〉 Apostematis in via matuâ—a 〈…〉 eâ—â—â— cog 〈…〉 Apostematibus calâ—â—is resoluâ—â—tia tugâ—enda sunt Repercutientia locis emü câ—â—â—is noÌ„â—unt adiubenda Immaâ—ura repâ—â—â—â—t 〈…〉 Apostematibus calidis quâ— vtenda sunt â—ugienda Alopecia Alopecia a lepra Bronchocele Cancer in pectore vel collo Acuta medicamina Cancer qui in propatulo grassatur Cancer non vlceratus Cancer vlceratus Cancer anti quatus Canis rabidi morsus Carbuncâ—lâ—s Calidâ— Calor Dislocatio in grossis pinguibus teneris corporibus Dislocatio cum apostemate Dislocatio cum fractura Coxae dislocatio Iuncturarum dislocatio Dâ—â—â—ocatio cum ligamâ—â—ti 〈…〉 Iunctura non dislocata neque separata esse cognoscitur Mandibulae dislocatio ad interiora Ad exteriora Dislocatio â— meâ—i Anchae dislocatio ad anteâ—iora Ad interiora Ad exteriora Cubiâ—i dislocatio introrsâ—â— Dextrorsum aâ—â— sinistrorsum Pulsus bâ—achij Manus diâ—â—ocâ—tuâ—