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A20850	A most excellent and compendious method of curing woundes in the head, and in other partes of the body with other precepts of the same arte, practised and written by that famous man Franciscus Arceus, Doctor in phisicke & chirurgery: and translated into English by Iohn Read, chirurgion. Whereunto is added the exact cure of the caruncle, neuer before set foorth in the English toung. With a treatise of the fistulae in the fundament, and other places of the body, translated out of Iohannes Ardern. And also the description of the emplaister called dia chalciteos, with his vse and vertues. With an apt table for the better finding of the perticular matters, contayned in this present worke.; De recta curandorum vulnerum ratione. English	Arcaeus, Franciscus, 1493-1573?; Read, John, surgeon.; Arderne, John, fl. 1307-1370.; Galen.	1588 (1588)	STC 723; ESTC S100216	164,574	268

and leaue it frée for euery man to vse his owne iudgement therein eyther in vsing the same or in deuising the like as he shall thinke best But my intent and purpose is onely to put downe this good aucthors intent or meaning and thereby to deliuer a generall methood and order of the cure of the said caruncle And so committing this shorte treatise to your good curtesies and your selues to the almighty I ende remayning yours to vse and commaund FINIS Heere beginneth a treatise of the Fistula in the fundament or other places of the body and of Impostumes causing Fistulaes and of the office pertaining to the Chirurgion with certaine other things By M. Iohn Arden Prologus Anno Domine 1349. IOHN ARDEN from the first pestilence that was in the yéere of our Lord God 1349. Divelled in New-warke in Nottingham shire vnto the yéere of our Lord 1370. And there healed many of the Fistulae in the fundament of the which the first was Sir Adam Eueringham of Laxton in the Clay besides Tucksfurd which was in Gascoigne at that time with Sir Henry named Earle of Darby who after was made Duke of Lancaster a noble and a worthy Lord. This sir Adam hauing a Fistulae in ano asked coūsell of all the Phisitions and Chirurgions that he could finde to Gascoigne at Burdeux at Brigerake Tolouse Norbon and Poyters and many other places and all forsooke him as vneurable Sir Adam séeing this aforesaide maner spéedely retourned home into his countrie and when he came home he put of all his knightly apparell and clad himselfe in mourning clothes with purpose to abide the curing or loosing of his body At the last I Iohn Arden came vnto him made couenant with him and so cured him by the helpe of God He was healed perfectly within halfe a yéere and afterward continued his life the space of xxx yéeres and more By the which cure I obtained much liuing and great credit through all England to the great admiration of the Duke of Lancaster and many other Gentlemen After him I cured Hugon Derling of Fendwik in the vale by Snayth Also I cured Iohn Sheffild of Brightwell beside Tekyll and Sir Rainold Gre●e Lorde of Wilton in Walles and Lord of Shirlond beside Chesterfeelde which asked counsell of the most famous Chirurgions that were in England and none auailed him Afterward I cured Sir Henry Blackborne Treasurer with the Lorde of Walles Prince of England After I cured Adam Humfry of Shelfoord besides Nottingham and Sir Iohn Priest of the same towne And Iohn of Hello of Sherlond And Sir Tho. Hannildon parson of Langare in the Vale of Beuer. After I healed Sir Iohn Mastie parson of Stoppert in Cheshire Afterward in Anno. 1370. I came to London and there I cured M. Iohn Colin Maior of Northamton that asked counsell of many skilfull persons After I cured Hugh Denny of London Fishmonger and William Polle and Ralphe Dowble Thomas Browne that had fi●ftéene holes by which went out winde with the excrements There were eight holes on the one side of his fundament and seuen on the other side of which some were distant from the fundament the space of a hand bredth His buttocks were so vlcerated and so putrified within that the ordure and the filth went out each day as much as would fill an egge shell After I cured foure Crosse Friers preachers that is to say Frier Iohn Writtell Frier Iohn Haket Frier Peter Browne Frier Thomas Apperley and a young man called Thomas Voke of which foresaid some had onely one hole distant from the fundament by one ynth or two or thrée and some had iiii or v. holes procéeding to the cods All these forenamed persons by their owne confession before I finished this booke thankes be giuen to God were perfectly healed with many other which it were to long to set downe God knoweth I lye not And therefore let no man doubt of this though all old famous men that were great students haue not confessed the same that I saye They had not the way of curing in this case For God that is the giuer of all wisedome hath hidden many things from wise men which he vouchsafeth afterward to shew vnto the simple Therefore know ye all that come after that the olde Maisters were not busie in practising or serching this cure because they could not take away the callosite at the first they forsooke it accompting it vncurable though some auctors make doubtful opinions thereoff For as much as it commeth to passe that in hard things students and practicioners should be more busie to séeke out the secrets of nature and to trye their wittes For knowledge and cunning aboundeth not in slothfull students but in the ingenious and painefull Therefore to the honour of almightie God that opened knowledge to mée that I should finde treasure within the fielde of knowledge that with longe time and panting breast I haue sweat and trauailed and full busilie indeuored my selfe as my facultie suffiseth to sette foorth this woorke faithfullie for the vtilitie and profit of those that come after Wherefore it béehoueth all those that purpose to practise herein to haue in a redinesse these Instruments folowing 1 The first Instrument is called Sequere me which is the first Instrument pertaining to the worke for with the same wée doe both search and proue euerye hollowe sore which waye the cauitie or hollownesse runneth And it ought to bée made in the same fashion and maner as Women doe vse in theyr headdes and of the same mettall and it ought to bée verye small that it be lightlie plied and replied and the head as little as may be or e●… they will not enter into the orifice of the Fistulae for oftentimes the Fistulae in the fundament hath verye small holes 2 There is another instrument called Acus Rostrata i. snowted néedle for it hath the one ende like a snowt and in the other end an eie like a néedle by the which thrids ought to be drawne through againe by the middle of the Fistulae as shal be saide in his proper place And it ought to be of Siluer as it is pictured and it ought to be no greater in proporcion then it is pictured nor longer in the snowte It should containe in lenght viii ynches 3 The third instrument is called Tendiculum and it ought to be made of Boxe or other like conuenient wood no longer nor bigger then his shape is pictured and it ought to haue an hole in the side in which there is put a wrest by which wrest in the vpper ende shal be a little hole through the which shal be put two endes of a thrid foure fould going out first of the fundament and the orifice of the Fistula which thrid is called Frenum cesaris and the which also going betwéene the wrest and the wresting the skinne of the fundament betwixt the Fistula and it and that it be fast contained aboue the snowte of the