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fire_n	air_n	body_n	earth_n	6,354	5	6.3744	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A21157	The analysis of chyrurgery being the theorique and practique thereof. Briefly composed for the benefit of all those who desire the knoledge of this worthy profession. By the paines and industry of Ed: Edwards Doctor in Physicke.	Edwards, Edward, doctor in physick.	1636 (1636)	STC 7511; ESTC S118569	49,776	120

Briefe answers to all the aforesaid questions and first to the thirteen principall points aforesaid as to know that 1 A Surgeon is natures servant to helpe nature in things pertaining to surgery 2 Surgery is both art and science 3 The subject of surgery is mans body being sore c. 4 The next way to learne this faculty is to begin at things generall and so come to particulars 5 The conditions required in the Surgion are generally 2. i. to be 1 vertuous religious 1 theoric 2 practic 2 expert in his prof both 6 his instruments 6 generally are but two i. medicinals manuals 7 ever fit to carry with him are 6. i. 1 probs 2 needles stitching quil 3 mullets with spatula 4 incision knife 5 cysors 6 launcets 7 8 Medicines ever to have in readinesse are generally 6. i. e 1 restrictives to stop 1 bloud 2 afluxiō that runs to other parts 2 Basilicon to cause matter 3 Apostolorum to cleanse 4 Aurinum to incarnate flesh 5 Album to cease dolour and heat 6 Desiccativum rubrum to dry and skin 9 The best method to observe is generally to note well the 1 disease cause and symptomes next way to cure it 1 speedily 2 surely 3 not to make false promises for mony promise no more then may be performd 10 The conditions required of the Patient are generally 3 i. e. to 1 hope with 1 assurance 2 diligence 3 patience 2 obey 3 endure 11 The contemplation of surgery do consist generally in the perfect knowledge of things 1 naturall 2 not naturall 3 against nature 12 He should observe before hee undertake any cure generally sixe things i. 1 whether lawfull before 1 God 2 Man 2 temperature of the 1 Body 2 Members 3 the sicknesse 1 and nature thereof 2 if curable or not 4 5 medicines proper for the disease 6 right way of application 13 The operations of the Surgeon are generally but three as are before mentioned The two generall parts of this art follow .i. 1 Theorica .i. the learned part by rules shewing the perfect waies to worke herein gotten by reading c. being Science and is divided generally into foure parts as things 1 natural being 7. as 1 Elements 2 Temperaments or Complexions 3 Humours 4 Members 5 Powers or vertues 6 Operations of those vertues 7 Spirits 2 not natural being 6. as 1 Ayre 2 Meat and drinke 3 Sleepe and watch 4 Fulnesse and emptinesse 5 Moving and rest 6 Affections of the minde 3 against nature being 3. as the 1 Disease 2 Cause of the disease 3 Accidents that follow the disease 4 Iudicall as to judge of diseases what 1 they be 2 nature they be of 3 cure or not and the reason why they may or may not be cured 4 medicines and method is best 2 Practica .i. practice shewing how to order prepare and to work with the hand according to the precepts of the theoricke done by these three meanes as by 1 Dyet or the right use of the 6 thing not naturall above said in 1 health to preserve with things like 2 diseases to cure with contraries medicines which is in two sorts used either 1 inwards 2 outwards 3 Manuall operation or hand-working as by 1 Incision 2 Stitching 3 Rowling 4 Reducing 5 Cauterising c. Now followeth the tract of the part Physiologia or the seven things naturall aforesaid as they lye in order 1 Elements of which consider generally four things i. as 1 what an Element is it is 1 A body most pure and simple unmixt 2 The least part not dividable into any other kinde 3 That whereof all things naturall have their originall 2 their 2 Numbers which are foure i 1 Fire 2 Ayre 3 Water 4 Earth 3 Qualities be 4. i. 1 Fire is 1 hot and dry 2 hot and moyst 3 cold and moyst 4 cold and dry 2 Ayre 3 Water 4 Earth 4 operations are generally 2. i. 1 Active i. to doe as is 1 heat and 2 cold 2 passive to suffer to be done as doth 1 drynesse and moystnesse Note that these two active qualities of heat and cold do work into the two passive qualities or drynesse and moystnesse to alter them 2 Temperaments or complexions wherin consider generally four things i. e. that they are 1 generally 2. i. 1 well tempered 2 evill 2 Particularly 9. 1 1 simple as 1 hot 2 cold 3 moist 4 dry 2 compound as hot and 1 dry 2 moist cold 3 dry 4 moist 2 3 4 1 four 2 3 4 2 one temperate by Equalitie of all these in perfect proportion rara Avis as hard to finde as a blacke Swan 3 Either 1 simple qualities of some or all the foure Elements either 1 hot 2 cold 3 moyst 4 dry 2 compound 4 To no end knowne by the differences of temperatures if wee know them not by their signes also for the which reade and consider well those rules which are set downe by Levine Lemnie written in his booke called the Touchstone of Complexions where you may be sufficiently instructed which in this place is too tedious to relate at this time 3 Humours be generally two i. 1 Naturall being 4. as 1 Bloud Naturall and profitable 2 Choler 3 Flegme 4 Melancholy 1 Bloud being either too 1 thinne by 1 heat 2 cold 2 thicke 2 adust so the 1 subtile parts 1 choler 2 melācholy become 2 grosse 3 distempered by mixing of other humors as of 1 choler 2 flegme 3 melancholy c. 2 Choler eyther 1 Vitiline like yolks of egges 2 Eruginous like verdegresse 3 Prassyne like juyce of hearbs 4 Azure or blew 2 Vnnaturall and are of divers sorts as 3 Flegme eyther 1 Vitria like melted glasse 2 Acide sowre like vineger 3 Salt like brine 4 Gypsum like white morter 4 Melancholy being of two sorts eyther of brent 1 blood 2 choler and is the worst Note that of these three things aforesaid i. as 1 Elements all the members of the body are made 2 Temperaments and 3 humours 4 Members are generally two i. 1 Simple being 11. as 1 Bones 2 Cartilages or gristles 3 Ligaments 4 Veines 5 Arteries or heart pypes 6 Nerves or synewes 7 Cords or tendons 8 Panicles or felmes 9 Simple flesh 1 substance 2 use or office 3 temperatures 4 utilities 10 Fat 11 Skinne in all these consider these foure things i. their 2 Compound as are the 1 Head 2 Heart 3 Liver 4 Lungs 5 Legs 6 Armes 1 Braine 2 Heart 3 Liver 4 Testicles or stones 7 Hands c. Whos 's other diversities are generally five whereof some are 1 Principals being 4. as the 2 serving the principals are 4. as the 1 veines to carry the spirit 1 naturall 2 vitall 3 animall 4 sperme or seede 2 arteries 3 nerves 4 spermatick vessels 3 Proper of themselves and others as the 1 Belly 2 Kidneyes 3 Matrix c. 4 Excrementall and not proper as 1 Hayre 2 Nayles 5 Neither governed nor doe governe others as are