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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

THE ANALYSIS OF CHYRVRGERY Being the Theorique and Practique part thereof Briefly composed for the benefit of all those who desire the knowledge of this worthy Profession BY The paines and industry of Ed Edwards Doctor in Physicke LONDON Printed by Thomas Harper 1636. TO HIS WORTHY Friends Master Alexander Read Doctor of Physick and the rest of the Brethren of the Worshipfull Company of Chyrurgians of the Citie of London Ed Edwards Doctour of Physick wisheth prosperitie and good successe in their Art with increase of knowledge to Gods glory and the great good of the Weale publick c. WOrthy Friends having considered the great labour industry and study required in the thrice worthy excellent and needfull faculty of Chyrurgerie which God of his great love to Mankind have ordained to preserve us By comforting us in curing our infirmities laid upon us sinfull wretches whereby hee will be glorified How ought we then to use our best endevours by all meanes possible to seeke to attain to the highest degree of knowledge herein that wee may whereby God may be glorified the patient releeved and the Artist rewarded And not to rest satisfied as too too many doe only in what they have learned by tradition from their Masters looking only what Medicines their Masters used for Tumours Wounds Ulcers c. whose Masters no doubt knew the differences of those Infirmities with the varieties thereof and all other circumstances thereto belonging and how to change adde or diminish in the use of their Medicines and considering the times how where and when to approve each thing in order and in due time which I heartily wish that all the yonger sort that intend to practise this worthy Faculty may seriously follow and consider well that they are called hereto not only for their own gaines as the most sort I doubt doe perswade themselves but let them strive to use the best meanes chiefly to stirre up Gods glory and then hee will blesse our labours with reward and send good successe in our practice for if wee begin first with him and make a conscience of what wee doe hee hath promised to guide and blesse our labours who will not faile in his part if we doe ours faithfully and my soule is grieved to see the daily abuses and errours committed in many of this Profession Chiefly in the Country of many wicked wretches not only men but infinite Petticote Surgeons that swarme in every Towne Parish and for the most part in every Village that take on them to practise this worthy Facultie having neither conscience learning art nor feare of God nor never had good Tutor to instruct them Yet like blind Bayards boldly adventure on that precious subject of Chyrurgerie promising to performe and cure all things that come under their unfortunate hands yet neither know method nor any meanes rightly to use for to cure it but for a shew to get money they will apply some thing be it right or wrong they make little care they will be sure to get by the bargaine But for the care and love that I have of those that are trained up under the true and worthy Professors of this needfull and worthy profession that they should be such as the World expects and seeing they daily see the use of the practicke part at the hands of their worthy Masters so I admonish them all to be very carefull to use all meanes possible to attaine the theorick part of their Faculty and to be very well seene therein that they may persevere with the light of true knowledge in that Art to guide them the perfect way or path of perfection For he that worketh without the perfect rules of the theoricke parts of this Art doth worke but as a blind man that caryeth a Picture cutting sometimes too much sometimes too little as well where hee should not as where hee should and so marres all Wherefore for the better instruction of the younger sort that intend to follow and practice this needfull and worthy Faculty I have set forth these briefe instructions for their better memory as a Load-stone to draw them from one degree to another both in the parts theorick and practick with many other needfull passages to be known of them for their further good herein with a briefe tract of Anatomy thereto annexed all in analised Tables in the which if they will diligently bestow a little labour and study therein I thinke they shall learne more in one mouth then they shall doe in five in any other formerly written in our vulgar tongue and if they desire further knowledge herein they may find many great Uolumes written at large concerning all those things that are herein touched but in briefe for their further satisfaction Meane time accept my love and zeale herein towards the true professors hereof and the good of my Country and having this collection I have been intreated by divers of my good Friends to publish it and for the benefit of others I am very willing to bestow it gratis for the good of many and shall be ready if this be well accepted to set forth divers other things worthy observation although it have been and will be something troublesome to mine old yeares being now 81 and six moneths Yet willing to labour to doe good to posterity and to give my best directions to any that endevour to doe good in the feare of God For which cause I doe here put forth this Introduction to the publick view of all hoping that the judicious will herein censure the best and herein accept my good meaning in setting it forth weighing the imbecility of old age from whom none must expect to have a thing so exactly done as in the flourishing yeares and vigour of riper wits Therefore I hope you will censure all the best way and accept it as friendly as I bestow it faithfully and lovingly seeing that it commeth from a minde which much regardeth your company though acquainted with few yet I desire and wish much happinesse deepe knowledge perfect ability in your Faculty in all the Brethren of the whole Society with my hearty Prayers unto Almighty God that they may all receive as much fruit by the reading of this Introduction as I hoped they would do when I penned it And so with my love I salute you all and commend you to Gods blessed protection Valete in Christo Nec pudet vivere Nec piget mori TO THE READER GEntle Reader I doe not write to fill thy fancies with fables or fruitlesse lines to fill papers but I present unto thee a fruitfull garden full of comfortable flowers I consider we that live in this iron age where so much impiety overwhelmeth the world being so full fraught with an inundant deluge or overwhelming floud of malice and disdaine that men goe to hard edge one with another must not care for the reproachfull taunts of envious snarlers which wicked impes in these our dayes swarme so abundantly that few