with a desire to vomit or goe to stoole or with yawning and when hee shall change his colour and his lips looke pale then you must stop the blood as speedily as you can otherwise there will be danger lest hee poure forth his life together with his blood Then he must bee refreshed with bread steeped in wine and put into his mouth and by rubbing his temples and nosethrilles with strong vinegar and by lying upon his backe But the part shall bee eased and freed from some portion of the impact and conjunct humor by gently scarifying the lippes of the wound or applying of Leaches But it shall bee diverted by opening these veines which are nighest to the wounded part as the Vena Puppis or that in the middest of the forehead or of the temples or these which are under the tongue besides also cupping-glasses shal be applied to the shoulders sometimes with scarification sometimes without neither must strong and long frictions with course clothes of all the whole body the head excepted be omitted during the whole time of the cure for these will be available though but for this that is to draw backe and dissipate by insensible transpiration the vapours which otherwise would ascend into the head which matters certainly in a body that lyes still and wants both the use and benefit of accustomed exercise are much increased But it shall bee made manifest by this following and notable example how powerfull blood-letting is to lessen and mitigate the inflammation of the Braine or the membranes thereof in wounds of the head I was lately called into the suburbs of Saint German there to visite a young man twenty eight yeeres old who lodged there in the house of Iohn Martiall at the signe of Saint Michaell This young man was one of the houshold servants of Master Doucador the steward of the Lady Admirall of Brion He fell downe headlong upon the left Bregma upon a marble pavement whence he received a contused wound without any fracture of the scull and being he was of a sanguine temperature by occasion of this wound a feaver tooke him on the seaventh day with a continuall delirium and inflammation of phlegmonous tumor of the wounded Pericranium This same tumor possessing his whole head and necke by continuation and sympathy of the parts was growne to such a bignesse that his visage was so much altred that his friends knew him not neither could he speake heare or swallow any thing but what was very liquide Which I observing although I knew that the day past which was the eight day of his disease he had foure saucers of blood taken from him by Germaine Agace Barber-surgion of the same suburbs yet considering the integrity and constancie of the strength of the patient I thought good to bleed him againe wherefore I drew from him foureteene saucers at that one time when I came to him the day after and saw that neither the feaver nor any of the fore mentioned symptomes were any whit remitted or aswaged I forthwith tooke from him foure saucers more which in all made two twenty the day following when I had observed that the symptomes were no whit lessened I durst not presume by my owne onely advice to let him the fourth time blood as I desired Wherefore I brought unto him that most famous Physition Doctor Violene who as soone as he felt his pulse knowing by the vehemencie thereof the strength of the Patient and moreover considering the greatnesse of the inflammation and tumor which offered its selfe to his sight hee bid mee presently take out my Lancet and open a veine But I lingred on set purpose and told him that hee had already twenty two saucers of blood taken from him Then sayd he Grant it be so and though more have beene drawne yet must we not therefore desist from our enterprise especially seeing the two chiefe Indications of blood-letting yet remaine that is the greatnesse of the disease and the constant strength of the Patient I being glad of this tooke three saucers more of blood hee standing by and was ready to take more but that he wished mee to differ it untill the after noone wherefore returning after dinner I filled two saucers more so that in all this young man to his great benefit lost twenty seaven saucers of blood at five times within the space of foure dayes Now the ensuing night was very pleasing to him the feaver left him about noone the tumor grew much lesse the heat of the inflammation was aswaged in all parts except in his eyelids and the lappes of his eares which being ulcerated cast forth a great quantitie of Pus or matter I have recited this history purposely to take away the childish feare which many have to draw blood in the constant strength of the patient and that it might appeare how speedy and certaine a remedy it is in inflammations of the head and braine Now to returne from whence we digressed you must note that nothing is so hurtfull in factures and wounds of the head as venery not onely at that time the disease is present but also long after the cure thereof For great plenty of spirits are conteined in a small quantity of seed the greatest part thereof flowes from the braine hence therefore all the faculties but chiefly the Animall are resolved whence I have divers times observed death to ensue in small wounds of the head yea when they have beene agglutinated and united All passions of the minde must in like sort be avoided because they by contraction and dissipation of the spirits cause great trouble in the body and minde Let a place be chosen for the Patient as farre from noise as can be as from the ringing of bells beatings and knocking 's of Smithes Coopers and Carpenters and from high-wayes through which they use to drive Coaches for noyse encreases paine causes a feaver and brings many other symptomes I remember when I was at Hisdin at the time that it was beseiged by the forces of Charles the fifth that when the wall beaten with the Cannon the noise of the Ordinance caused grievous torment to all those which were sicke but especially those that were wounded on their heads so that they would say that they thought at the discharging of every Cannon that they were cruelly strucken with staves on that part which was wounded and verily their wounds were so angred herewith that they bledde much and by their paine and feavers encreased were forced with much sighing to breathe their last Thus much may serve to be spoken of the cure in generall now we will out of the monuments of the ancients treate of the particular CHAP. XV. Of the particular cure of Wounds of the head and of the musculous skinne LEt us beginne with a simple wound for whose cure the Chirurgion must propose one onely scope to wit Vnion for unlesse the wound pierce to the scull it is
so that every part being rounded and encompassed with these sharpe and dangerous prickes hee cannot be hurt And so saves himselfe by this tricke for his young he provides in this manner In the time of Vintage he goes to the vines and there with his feete hee strikes off the boughs and the grapes and then rowling his body makes them sticke upon his prickles and so doth as it were take his burthen upon his backe and then returnes to his hole you would thinke that the grapes did move of themselves the prey hee devides betweene himselfe and his young Of the affection of Birds and of Dogges towards their Masters THe young Storke provides for the old which is disabled by age and if any one of their equalls come to any mischance that hee is not able to flie they will give him their assistance and beare him on their backes and wings And therefore this affection and piety towards the old ones and as it were brotherly love towards their equalls is commended in the Storke The Henne in any kinde of danger gathers her chickins under her wings and as it were with that guard defends them as well as shee can For their sake shee exposeth her selfe to the crueltie of the fiercest beasts and will flie in the eyes of a dogge a Wolfe or a Beare that by chance offers to meddle with her chickins But who is there that doth not admire the fidelitie and love of dogges towards their Masters whereby they recompence them for their keeping A dogge will never forsake his Master no if he be never so hardly used For there is no man can finde a sticke hard enough to drive that dogge cleane away from him which hath once taken a love to him There is no kinde of creature that doth more certainely and readily remember his master hee will know the voice of all the household and of those which frequent the house There cannot bee a trustier keeper as Cicero himselfe saith than a Dogge is I speake not of their faculty of smelling whereby they follow their Masters by the foote and finde them neither doe I speake of those infinite examples of the fidelity of Dogges which were too long to rehearse Pidgeons as well the Cocke as the Henne although they are all very venereous yet they know no adultery yea and the Henne will beare with the frowardnesse of the Cocke neither will she ever leave him but reconciling him unto her by her officious diligence bring him to his wonted dalliance and kisses neither is the love of either of them lesse towards their young There is the like mutuallbond of love betweene Turtles for if one of them die the surviver never solicites Hymen more neither will he ever chuse other seate than a dry withered bough Of the strength piety docilitie clemency chastity and gratitude of Elephants AMong the beasts of the field there is none more vaste more strong or more to bee feared than the Elephant His strength is sufficiently showne by those towered Castles of armed men which hee carries and fiercely rusheth with into the battell The Romane souldiers being otherwise of undaunted spirit yet in that battell which they fought against Antiochus being terrified with the vastnesse and immanity of these bodies which they had never before seene presently turned their backes and fled which notwithstanding it is a wonderfull thing what stories naturall Philosophers tell of the vertues of the Elephant Plinie writeth that an Elephant commeth very neere to the understanding that men have and that hee hath a rude kinde of knowledge of language that his facilitie and obsequiousnesse is wonderfull that his memory in the performance of his wonted duties is no lesse wonderfull And for Religion Plutarch saith that they pray unto the gods and sprinckle and purge themselves with salt water and that with great reverence they worship the Sunne at his rising lifting their trunkes up towards heaven for want of hands Plinie addeth that they doe with the like reverence worship the Moone and the Starres For it is related in the Histories of the Arabians that at a new Moone the Elephants goe by troupes downe unto the rivers and there wash themselves with water and being thus purged kneele downe and worship the Moone and then returne to the woodes the eldest going first and the other following after according to their age Of the Lamprey LEast that the heat of affection may seeme to lie quenched under the waters let us by one example it were an infinite thing to speake of all see in what kinde of mutuall love the creatures of the water come short of those of the land The Lamprey of all the creatures of this kinde doth worthily beare the praise for its pietie towards those of whom it was generated its affection towards those that are generated of her for first she breeds egges within her which in a short time after are spauned But shee doth not as soone as her young ones are formed and procreated bring them straight way forth into the light after the manner of other fishes that bring forth their young alive but nourisheth two within her as if shee brought forth twice and had a second broode These she doth not put forth before they are of some bignesse then she teacheth them to swimme and to play in the water but suffers them not to goe farre from her and anon gapes and receives them by her mouth into her bowells againe suffering them to inhabite there and to feede in her belly so long as shee thinkes fit That Savage or brute beasts may bee made tame THevet reporteth that the Emperour of the Turkes hath at Caire it was once called Memphis and at Constantinople many savage beasts kept for his delight as Lions Tigers Leopards Antilopes Camels Elephants Porcupines and many other of this kinde These they use to leade about the citie to shew The masters of them are girt with a girdle hung about with little bells that by noise of these bells the people may be forewarned to keepe themselves from being hurt by these beasts But in hope of reward and of gifts they shew them to Embassadours of strange nations before whom they make these beasts doe a thousand very delightfull trickes and in the interim they play their countrey tunes and musicke upon their pipes and other instruments and make many sports in hope of gaine That Fishes also may be tamed BVt it is far more wonderfull that the creatures of the water should be made tame and be taught by the Art of man Among which the chiefest are held to be the Eele The same things also are reported of the Lamprey For wee have it recorded that Marcus Crassus had a Lamprey in his Fish-poole that was so tame and so well taught that he could command her at his pleasure Therefore as a domesticall and tame beast he gave her a name by which when he called her she would come And
a sound sleepe then presently with his head a litle lifted up hee looked this way and that way to the great admiration of all the beholders and finally rise up and went familiarly and cheerfully to him he should the which sight the Emperour Vespatian who was then present in Marcellus his Theater never saw any which more delighted him Of the Ape AN Ape is a ridiculous Creature and which makes men much sport in imitating their actions There hath beene seen an Ape which would pipe and sing and besides dance and write and endeavour to performe many other things proper to men I remember I saw in the Duke of Somes house a great and curst Ape who because he much troubled many had his hands cut off who suffering himself to be cured when the wound was cicatrized he grew more mild and docile Wherefore cloathed in a greene coate and girt over his loines with a girdle he carried hanging therat a case of spectacles a paire of knives a childs handkercheife He was commited to the charge of the Master Cooke to teach because he had taken up his lodging in the Chimney corner hee was taught many pretty tricks and feates If at any time hee swarved from his doctrine and precepts in a trice the whip was upon his back loines and much was abated of his daily allowance for as Persius saith The belly is the master of Arts and sharpener of wit By these means be profited so in a short time that he much exceeded all the Apes of his time in the glory of his wit there was none counted more skilfull in leaping and dancing to the pipe running up a pole and nimbly leaping through his Masters legs To conclude he performed all the actions of a strong Ape and very reverently carried up dishes with the waiters servingmen and made cleane the dishes and platters by licking and did much other drudgery so that he was commonly called Master Iohn Do-all At dinner and supper sitting in a chaire he said grace and cast his eyes up towards heaven and rouled them this way and that way and smote his breast with the stumpes of his hands with much lamentation and imitated prayer by the gnashing or beating together of his teeth He would turne up his taile to any that offended him for his coate scarse covered halfe his buttocks lest he should have filed it he made much other pastime alwayes going upright by reason of the cutting away of his hands unlesse at any time through wearinesse he were forced to sit on his buttocks Of Ravenous birds BVt let us take a view of Faulconers teaching ravenous birds how with swift wings carried aloft into the Aire they may seaze upon other Birds and cast them downe dead to the ground in performance whereof they often too freely soare up to the clouds so that they carry themselves out of the Faulconers sight with a desire to sun themselves neglecting in the meane time their designed prey The Herne when she sees her selfe kept under and below the Falcon carried up by his strong wings with a merveilous swiftnesse with her beake which is long sharpe hid under her wings and turned upwards she receives the Falcon blinded with the heat of fight and desire of prey carelesly flying downe and rushing upon him so that he often strikes him through the gorge so that oft times they both fall downe dead to the ground But if the Falcon without harme escape the deceits by Arte the happy turning of his body and the Herne be not cast downe the Faulconer calling her backe with never so loud a voyce yet by setting up her Feathers she dares her to the pretended fight Of the Camels THe Camell is a very domesticall and gentle beast and which is easily tamed and taught all kind of obedience and service although some of them are cruell wilde and troublesome by biting and striking such as they meet no lesse than vntamed horses There is no neede to house them in the night for they may be left in the plaine fields in the open and free aire feeding upon the grasse and trees and cropping the tops of the thistles neither in the morning doe they any whit the worse undergoe or carry their burdens They are not put to carry burdens before they be foure yeare old The Arabians geld them young that they may enjoy their labour the longer neither being gelt doe they rage for love or desire of venery At the putting in of the Spring they endure hunger and thirst for eight dayes they are so dutifull that at the becke of the Turkish slaves or but touched on the necke with a twigge they presently kneele on the ground to take up their burden neither doe they lift themselves up before that they finde they have a sufficient load layd upon them Those which have but one bunch on their backe are of Africke but such as have two bunches are of Asia or Scythia Those kinde of Camels that are the bigger are used to carry packes but the lesser are used to ride upon as our horses are They love nothing so well as beanes and yet they live content with foure handfulls of beanes for a day The greatest wealth of the Arabians consists in Camels and so they estimate their riches not by the quantity of silver or gold but by the number of Camels The Turkish Emperour Thevet being the reporter made a Captaine over the heards of his Camels giving him a great troope of African and Christian slaves that they might be the better looked unto I have heard it reported saith Thevet by certaine Arabian African and Iewish Merchants who were present at that time when Sultan Selim the first of that name beseiged Caire in Aegypt which in former times was called 〈◊〉 that there was then in that Emperours army sixtie thousand Cammels besides a mighty company of Mules That Birds have taught us musicall tunes THe Nightingales are sweet and excellent singers tuning rheir notes with infinite quaverings and diversities of sounds so pretily and sweetly that humane industry can scarse equall the sweetnesse thereof by so many musicall instruments so that wee say hee sings like a Nightingale who varies his voice with much varietie In which thing Birds much excell men because they have that admirall sweetnesse of singing from nature it selfe without any labour of learning which men can scarse attaine to in any schoole of musicke by having their eares a thousand times pluckt by the hand of a curst master That Beasts know one anothers voice BEasts know one another by their voice so that they may seeme to talke and to laugh together whilest flattering with their eares they plucke in their noses with a pleasant aspect of their eyes and as speech is given to men so Birds have their naturall voice which is of the same use to them as speech is to us For all birds of the same
continue thereafter The incision being dilated the Surgeon putting one or two of his fingers into the necke of the wombe shall presse the bottome of the bladder and then thrust his crooked instruments or forcipes in by the wound and with these he shall easily pluck out the stone which he shall keepe with his fingers from slipping backe againe Yet Laurence Collo the Kings Surgeon and both his sunnes than whom I doe not know whether ever there were better cutters for the stone doe otherwise performe this operation for they doe not thrust their fingers into the fundament or necke of the wombe but contenting themselves with putting in onely the Guiders whereof we formerly made mention into the passage of the urine they presently thereupon make a streight incision directly at the mouth of the neck of the bladder and not on the side as is usually done in men Then they gently by the same way thrust the forcipes hollowed on the outside formerly delineated and so dilate the wound by tearing it as much as shall be sufficient for the drawing of the stone forth of the bladder The residue of the cure is the same with that formerly mentioned in men yet this is to be added that if an ulcer grow in the neck of the bladder by reason of the rending it you may by putting in the speculum matricis dilate the neck of the womb that fitting remedies may be applyed with the more ease CHAP. XLVIII Of the suppression of the Urine by internall causes BEsides the formentioned causes of suppressed urine or difficulty of making of water there are many other lest any may thinke that the urine is stopt onely by the stone or gravell as Surgeons thinke who in this case presently use diuretickes Therefore the urine is supprest by externall and internall causes The internall causes are clotted bloud tough phlegme warts caruncles bred in the passages of the urine stones and gravell the urine is sometimes supprest because the matter thereof to wit the serous or whayish part of the blood is either consumed by the feavourish heat or carryed other wayes by sweats or a scouring somtimes also the flatulencie there conteined or inflammation arising in the parts made for the urine and the neighbouring members suppresses the urine For the right gut if it be inflamed intercepts the passage of the urine either by a tumour whereby it presseth upon the bladder or by the communication of the inflammation Thus by the default of an ill affected liver the urine is oft times supprest in such as have the dropsie or else by dulnesse or decay of the attractive or separative faculty of the reines by some great distemper or by the default of the animall faculty as in such as are in a phrensie lethargy convulsion apoplexie Besides also a tough and viscide humour falling from the whole body into the passages of the urine obstructs and shuts up the passage Also too long holding the water somtimes causes this affect For when the bladder is distended above measure the passage thereof is drawn together and made more strait hereto may be added that the too great distension of the bladder is a hinderance that it cannot use the expulsive faculty and straiten it selfe about the urine to the exclusion thereof hereto also paine succeeds which presently dejects all the faculties of the part which it seazeth upon Thus of late a certaine young man riding on horsebacke before his Mistresse and therfore not daring to make water when he had great need so to doe had his urine so supprest that returning from his journy home into the city he could by no meanes possible make water In the meane time he had grievous paine in the bottom of his belly and the perinaeum with gripings and a sweatall over his body so that he almost sowned I being called when I had procured him to make water by putting in a hollow Cathaeter and pressing the bottom of his belly whereof he forthwith made two pints I told them that it was not occasioned by the stone which notwithstanding the standers by imagined to bee the occasion of that suppression of urine For thence forward there appeared no signes of the stone in the youth neither was he afterwards troubled with the stopping of his urine CHAP. XLIX A digression concerning the purging of such things as are unprofitable in the whole body by the urine IThink it not amisse to testifie by the following histories the providence of nature in expelling by urine such things as are unprofitable in the whole body Mounsieur Sarret the Kings secretary was wounded in the right arme with a pistoll bullet many and maligne symptomes happened thereupon but principally great inflammations flowing with much sanies and pus or quitture it somtimes happened that without any reason this purulent and sanious effluxe of matter was stayd in the inflammation wherof while we solicitously enquired into the cause wee found both his stooles and water commixed with much purulent filth and this through the whole course of the disease whereof notwithstanding by gods assistance he recovered and remaines whole and sound we observed that as long as his arme flowed with this filthy matter so long were his excrements of the belly and bladder free from the sanious and purulent matter as long on the contrary as the ulcers of the arme were dry so long were the excrements of the guts and bladder sanious and purulent The same accident befell a Gentleman called Mounsieur da la Croix who received a deadly wound with a sword on the left arme though German Chavall and Master Rasse most expert Surgeons and others who together with me had him in cure thought it was not so for this reason because the pus cannot runne so long a way in the body neither if it were so could that bee done without the infection and corruption of the whole masse of blood whilest it flowes through the veines therefore to be more probable that this quantity of filth mixed with excrements and urine flowed by reason of the default of the liver or of some other bowell rather than from the wounded arme I was of a contrary opinion for these following reasons First for that which was apparently seen in the patient for as long as the excrement and urine were free from this purulent matter so long his arme plentifully flowed therewith this on the contrary being dry much purulent matter was voided both by stoole and urine Another was that as our whole body is perspirable so it is also if I may so terme it confluxible The third was an example taken from the glasses which the French terme Monte-vins that is Mount-wines for if a glasse that is full of wine be set under another that is fill'd with water you may see the wine raise it selfe out of the lower vessell to the upper through the midst of the water so the water descend through the
consequetur a qua Convulsio a convulsione cita mors Quorum symptomatum metu Galenus non ante transversa vulnera suere audebat quod tamen minus erat periculosum quà m masculorum apoucuroses denudasset Adde quòd forcipes quibus post sectionem iterum carnem dilacerat cum retracta versus originem vasa se posse extrahere somniat non minorem adferant dolorem quà m ignita ferramenta admota Quod si quis laniatum expertus incolumis evaserit is Deo optimo maximo cuius Beneficentia crudelitate ista carnificina liberatus est maximas gratias habere semper agere debet which is thus Ill then and too arrogantly a certaine indiscreet and rash person would blame and condemne the cauterizing of vessells after the amputation of a rotten and corrupted member much praised and commended and alwayes approved by the Ancients desiring to shew and teach us without reason judgement and experience a new way to tye the vessells against the opinion of the Ancient Physitions taking no heede nor being well advised that there happens farre greater perills and accidents through this new way of tying the vessells which he will have to be made with a needle piercing deepely the sound part than by the burning and ustion of the sayd vessells for if the needle shall pricke any nervous part yea the nerve it selfe when he shall by this new and accustomed way absurdly constraine the veine by binding it there must necessarily follow a new inflammation from an inflammationâ— convulsion from a convulsion death for feare of which accidents Galen never durst stitch transversall veines which notwithstanding were lesse dangerous before he had discovered the Aponeuroses of the muscles Moreover the pincers with which after the section 〈…〉 is againe dilacerated while he thinkes to draw the vessells out which are drwne in toward their originall bring no lesse paine than the cautering irons doe And if any one having experimented this new manner of cruelty have escaped danger he ought to render thankes to almighty God forever thâ—ougâ— whose goodnesse he hath beene freed from such tyrannie feeling rather his executioner than his methodicall-Chirurgion O what sweete words are heere for one who is sayd to be a wise and learned Doctor he remembers not that his white beard admonisheth him not to speake any thing unworthy of his age and that he ought to put off and drive out of him all envie and â—ancor conceived against his neighbour So now I will proove by authority reason and experience that the sayd Veines and Arteryes ought to be tyed Authorities AS for Authorities I will come to that of that worthy man Hippocrates who wils and commands the cure of Fistula's in the fundament by ligature as well to consume the callosity as to avoyd hemorragie Galen in his method speaking of a fluxe of blood made by an outward cause of whom see heere the words It is saith he most sure to tye the foote of the vessell which I understand to be that which is most neere to the Liver or the heart Avicen commands to tye the veine and the Arterie after it is discovered towards his originall Guido of Cauliac speaking of the wounds of the Veines and Arteries injoyneth the Chirurgion to make the ligature in the vessell Master Hollier speaking of a fluxe of blood commands expressely to tye the vessells Calmetheus in the chapter of the wounds in the Veines and Arteries tells a most sure way to stay a fluxe of blood by ligature of the vessell Celsus from whom the sayd Physition hath snatched the most part of his booke chargeth expressely to tye the vessells in a fluxe of blood happening to wounds as a remedy most easie and most sure Vesalius in his Chirurgery willeth that the vessells be tyed in a fluxe of blood Iohn de Vigo treating of a hemorragie in bleeding wounds commands to tye the Veine and the Artery Tagaultius treating of the meanes to stay a fluxe of blood commands to pinch the Veine or Artery with a Crow or Parrots bill then to tye it with a very strong thred Peter of Argillata of Bullongne discoursing of a fluxe of blood and the meanes to stoppe it giveth a fourth way expressely which is made by ligature of the vessells Iohn Andreas a Cruce a Venetian makes mention of a method to stay a fluxe of blood by the ligature of the vessells D'Alechamp commands to tye the Veines and Arteries See then my little good man the authorities which command you to tye the vessells As for the reasons I will debate of them The hemorragie say you is not so much to be feared in the section of the Call as that of the Varices and the incision of the temporall Arteries as after the amputation of a member Now you your selfe command that in cutting the Variâ—es the fluxe of blood be stopped by the ligature of the vessells You command the same speaking of the stitch with the amputation and section of the Call changed by the outward ayre see heere your owne words After that must bee considered concerning the Call for if there be any part corrupted putrified withered or blackish First having tyed for feare of a fluxe of blood you doe not bid afterward to have it cauterized but to say the truth you have your eyes shut and all your senses dulled when you would speake against so sure a method and that it is not but through anger and an ill will For there is nothing which hath more power to drive reason from her seate than choler and anger Moreover when one comes to cauterize the dismembred parts oftentimes when the escar comes to fall off there happens a new flux of blood As I have seene divers times not having yet beene inspired by God with so sure a meanes then when I used the heate of fire Which if you have not found or understood this method in the bookes of the Ancients you ought not thus to tread it under your feete and speake unluckely of one who all his life hath preferred the profit of the Common-wealth before his owne particular Is it not more than reasonable to bee founded upon the saying of Hippocrates upon whose authority you serve your selfe which is thus That what the medicament cureth not the iron doth and what the iron doth not amend the fire exterminateth It is a thing which savours not of a Christian to fall to burning at the first dash without staying for any more gentle remedies As you your selfe write speaking of the conditions required in a Chirurgion to cure well which passage you borrow from some other place for that which may bee done gently without fire is much more commended than otherwise Is it not a thing which all schooles hold as a Maxime that we must alwaies begin with most easie remedies which if they be not sufficient we must then come to extreame following the doctrine of Hippocrates Galen commands in the
ulcered and all the bones cariez'd and rotten prayed me for the honor of God to cut off his Legge by reason of the great paine which he could no longer endure After his body was prepared I caused his legge to be cut off fowre fingers below the rotula of the knee by Daniel Powlet one of my servants to teach him and to imbolden him in such workes and there he readily tyed the vessells to stay the bleeding without application of hot irons in the presence of Iames Guillemeaâ— ordinary Chirurgion to the King and Iohn Charbonell master Barber Chirurgion of Paris and during the cure was visited by Master Laffile and Master Courtin Doctors Regents in the facultie of Medicine at Paris The said operation was made in the house of Iohn Gohell Inkeeper dwelling at the signe of the white horse in the Greve I will not here forget to say that the Lady Princesse of Montpeâ—sier knowing that he was poore and in my hands gave him money to pay for his chamber and diet He was well cured God be praysed and is returned home to his house with a wooden Leg. Another History A Gangreene happened to halfe of the Legge to one named Nicholas Mesnager aged threescore and sixteene yeares dwelling in S. Honores street at the signe of the Basket which happened to him through an inward cause so that wee were constrained to cut off his Legge to save his life and it was taken off by Anthony Renaud master Barber Chirurgion of Paris the 16. day of December 1583. in the presence of Master Le Fort and Master La Noüe sworne Chirurgions of Paris and the blood was stanched by the Ligature of the vessells and hee is at this present cured and in health walking with a woodden Leg. Another History A Waterman at the Port of Nesle dwelling neare Monsieur de Mas Postmaster named Iohn Boussereau in whose hands a Musket brake asunder which broke the bones of his head and rent and tore the other parts in such sort that it was needfull and necessary to make amputation of the hand two fingers above the wrist which was done by Iames Guillemeau then Chirurgion in ordinary to the king who dwelt at that time with me The operation likewise being redily done and the blood stancht by the Ligature of the vessells without burning irons hee is at this present living Another History A Merchant Grocer dwelling in St Denis street at the signe of the great Tournois named the Iudge who fell upon his head where was made a wound neare the temporall muscle where he had an artery opened from whence issued forth blood with great impetâ—osity in so much that common remedies would not serve the turne I was called thither where I found Master Rasse Master Cointeret Master Viard sworne Chirurgions of Paris to stay the blood where presently I tooke a needle and thread and tyed the arterie and it bled no more after that and was quickly cured Master Rousselet can witnesse it not long since Deacon of your Facultie who was in the cure with us Another History A Sergeant of the Chastler dwelling neare S. Andrew des Arts who had a stroake of a sword upon the throate in the Clackes medow which cut asunder the jugular veine externe as soone as he was hurt he put his handkercher upon the wound and came to looke mee at my house and when hee tooke away his handkercher the blood leaped out with great impetuosity I suddainly tyed the veine toward the roote he by this meanes was stanched and cured thankes be to God And if one had followed your manner of stanching blood by cauteries I leave it to be supposed whether he had beene cured I thinke hee had beene dead in the hands of the operator If I would recite all those whose vessells were tyed to stay the blood which have beene cured I should not have ended this long time so that me thinkes there are Histories enough recited to make you beleeve the blood of veines and arteries is surely stanched without applying any actuall cauteries DV BARTVS He that doth strive against experience Daignes not to talke of any learned science NOw my little Master seeing that you reproach me that I have not written all the operations of Chirurgery in my workes which the Ancients writ of I should be very sorry for it for then indeede might you justly call me Carnifex I have left them because they are too cruell and am willing to follow the modernes who have moderated such cruelty which notwithstanding you have followed step by step as appeareth by the operations here written extracted from your booke which you have drawne here and there from certaine ancient Authors such as follow and such as you have never practised nor seene The first operation TO inveterate fluxions of the eyes Migrimes Paulus Aegineta as also Albucasis command to make Arteriotomie see here the words of the same Aeginete You marke the Arteries which are behind the eares then divide them in cutting to the very bone and make a great incision the breadth of two fingers which is the will also of Aetius that the incision be made tranverse cutting or incising the length of two fingers even till that the Artery be found as you command to bee done in your booke but I holding the opinion of Galen who commands to dresse the diseased quickly safely and with the least paine that is possible I teach the young Chirurgion the meanes to remedy such evills in opening the Arteries behind the eares and those of the Temples with one onely incision as a letting blood and not to make a great incision and cut out worke for a long time The second operation TO fluxions which are made a long time upon the eyes Paul Aeginete and Albucasis command to make incision which they call Periscythismos or Augiologie of the Greekes and see heere the words of Paul In this operation first the head is shaved then taking heede of touching the temporall muscles a transverse incision must bee made beginning at the left Temple and finishing at the right which you have put in your booke word for word without changing any thing which sheweth openly you are a right wound-maker as may be sâ—ene in the Chapter which you call the Crowne cut which is made halfe round under the Coronall suture from one temple to the another even to the bone Now I doe not teach such a cruell kind of remedy but instruct the operator by reason authority and notable proofe of a sure and certaine way to remedy such affections without butchering men in this kind The third IN the cure of the Empyema Paul Aeginete Albucasis and Celsus commanded to apply some 13. others 15. Cauterles to give issue to the matter contained in the breast as the said Celsus in the aforesaid place appointeth for Asthmatick people which is a thing out of all reason with respect to their honour be it spoken
reason of the originall antiquity necessity as certainty in her actions for shee workes Luce aperta as learnedly writeth Celsu◠in the beginning of his seaventh booke therefore it is to be beleeved you never went out of your study but to teach the Theorick◠if you have beene able to doe it The operations of Chirurgery are learn't by the eye by the touch I will say that you much resemble a yong Lad of Low Britany of plump buttocks where was stuffe sufficient who demanded leave of his father to come to Paris to take France being arrived the Organist of our Ladys Church met with him as the Pallace gate who took him to blow the Organs where hee was remaining three yeeres hee saw hee could somewhat speake French he returnes to his father and told him that he spake good French and moreover he knew well to play on the Organs his father received him very joyfully for that hee was so wise and learned in so short a time Hee went to the Organist of their great Church and prayed him to permit his sonne to play on the Organs to the end he might know whether his sonne was become so skilfull a master as he sayd he was which the Organist agreed to very willingly Being entred to the Organs he cast himselfe with a full leape to the bellowes the master Organist bid him play and that he would blow then this good master answeares Let him play himselfe on the Organs if he would for him hee could doe nothing but play on the bellowes I thinke also my little master that you know nothing else but to prattle in a chaire but I will play upon the keyes and make the Organs sound that is to say I will doe the operations of Chirurgery that which you cannot in any wise doe because you have not gone from your study or the schooles as I have sayd before But also as I have sayd already in the Epistle to the Reader that the labourer doth little profit by talking of the seasons discourse of the manner of tilling the earth to shew what seedes are proper to each soyle all which is nothing if he put not his hand to the Plough and couple the Oxen together So like-wise is it no great matter if you doe not know the Practicke for a man may execute Chirurgery well although he have no tongue at all As Cornelius Celsus hath very well remarked in his first booke when he saith Morbos non eloquentia sed remedijs curari quae si quis elinguis usu discretus bene norit hunc aliquantia majorem medicum futurum quà m si sine usu linguam suam excoluerit that is to say Diseases are not to bee cured by eloquence but by remedies well and duely applyed which if any wise and discreete man though he have no tongue know well the use thereof this man in time shall become the greater Physition than if without practise his tongue were dipt with oratory the which you your selfe confesse in your sayd booke by a Tetrasticke which is thus To talke 's not all in Chirurgions Art But working with the hands Aptly to dresse each greeved part And guide fire knife and bands Aristotle in the first booke of his Metaphysicks the first chapter saith Experience is almost like unto science and by the same Art and science have beene invented And indeed we see these which are experimented attaine sooner to that which they intend than those which have reason and not experience because that the sayd experience is a knowledge of singular and particular things and science on the contrary is a knowledge of things universall Now that which is particular is more healeable than that which is universall therefore those which have experience are more wise and more esteemed than those which want it by reason they know what they doe Moreover I say that science without experience bringeth no great assurance Alciat a Doctor of Milan boasted one day of himselfe that his glory was greater and more famous than that of Counsellors Presidents masters of Request because that it was by his science and his instructions that they became such but he was answeared by a Counsellor that he was like unto a whetstone which made the knife sharpe and ready to cut not being able so to doe it selfe and alledged the verses of Horace that Fungebatur vice cotis acutum Reddere quae ferrum valet exors ipsa secandi See you now my little master my answers to your calumniations and pray you if you beare a good minde to the publicke good to review and correct your booke as soone as you can and not to hold young Chirurgion in this errour by the reading of the same where you teach them to use hot irons after the amputation of members to stay a fluxe of blood seeing there is another meanes and not so cruell and more sure and easie Moreover if to day after an assault of a Citty where diverse Souldiers have had armes and legges broken and shot off by Cannon Bullets Cutlas or other instruments of warre to stay the fluxe of blood if you should use hot irons it would be needfull to have a forge and much coales to heate them and also the souldiers would hold you in such horror for this cruelty that they would kill you like a Calfe even as in times past they did to one of the chiefest Chirurgions of Rome which may be found written before in the third chapter of the Introduction of Chirurgery the 〈◊〉 booke Now least the Sectators of your writings should fall into such inconveniencie I pray them to follow the methode aforesayd the which I have shewed to be true and certaine and approved by authority reason and experience The Voyage of Thurin 1536. MOreover I will heere shew to the readers the places where I have had meanes to learne the Art of Chirurgery for the better instructing of the young Chirurgion and first in the yeere 1536 the great King Francis sent a great Army to Thurin to recover the Cittyes and Castles which the Marquesse of Guas◠Lievtenant generall of the Emperor had taken where the high Constable of France the great master was Lievtenant generall of the Army and Monsieur de Montian Colonel generall of the foote of which I was then Chirurgion A great part of the Army arrived in the Country of Suze we found the enemy which stopt the passage and had made certaine Forts and trenches insomuch that to hunt them out and make them leave the place we were forced to fight where there were divers hurt and slaine as well of the one side as of the other but the enemies were coustrayned to retire and get into the Castle which was caused partly by one Captaine Ratt who climed with divers of the souldiers of his company upon a little Mountaine there where he shot directly upon the enemies hee received a shot upon the anckle of his right foote wherewith presently he fell to
Now I beleeve it was per Diapedesin or Anastomosin that is to say by the apertion of the mouthes of the vessells or by their porosities the poore little wrastler was buryed I tooke leave of Messieurs de Rohan de Laval and Estamps Monsieur de Rohan gave mee a present of fifty double duckets and an ambling horse and Monsieur de Laval another for my man and Monsieur de Estamps a Diamond of thirty Crownes and so I returned to my house at Paris The Voyage of Parpignan 1543. A Little while after Monsieur de Rohan tooke me with him poste to the campe of Parpignan being there the enemy made a Sally forth and came and inclosed three peeces of our Artillery where they were beaten back to the gates of the Citty which was not done without hurting and killing many and amongst the rest de Brissâ—c who was then chiefe master of the Artillery received a musket shot upon the shoulder returning to his Tent all the others that were hurt followed him hoping to be drest by the Chirurgions that ought to dresse them Being come to his Tent and layd on his bed the bullet was searched for by three or foure the most expert Chirurgions of the Army who could not finde it but sayd it was entred into his body In the end hee called for me to see if I were more skilfull than them because he had knowne me before in Piedmount by and by I made him rise from his bed and prayed him to put his body into that posture as it was then when hee received his hurt which he did taking a javelin betweene his hands as he held the Pike in the skirmish I put my hand about the wound and found the bullet in the flesh making a little tumor under the Omoplate having found it I shewed them the place where it was and it was taken out by Master Nicholas Lavernaut Chirurgion to Monsieur the Dolphin who was the Kings Lievtenant in that army yet notwithstanding the honour remained to me for finding of it I saw one thing of great remark which is this that a souldier in my presence gave to one of his fellowes a stroake with an Halbard upon the head penetrating even to the left ventricle of the braine without falling to the ground Hee that strooke him said he had heard that he had cheated at Dice and that he had drawne a great summe of money and that it was his custome to cheate I was called to dresse him which I did as it were for the last knowing well that he would quickly die having drest him he returned all alone to his lodging which was at least two hundred paces distant I bid one of his companions send for a Priest to dispose of the affaires of his soule he helpt him to one who stayd with him to the last gaspe The next day the patient sent for mee by his shee friend in a boyes apparell to come to dresse him which I would not doe fearing hee should die under my hands and to put it off I sayd I must not take off the dressing till the third day by reason hee would die though hee were never touched The third day hee came staggering and found me in my Tent accompanied with his wench and prayed mee most affectionately to dresse him And shewed me a purse wherein he had an hundred or sixscore peeces of Gold and that he would content me to my desire for all that yet notwithstanding I left not off to deferre the taking off his dressing fearing least hee should die at the same instant Certaine Gentlemen desired me to goe dresse him which I did at their request but in dressing him he died under my hands in a Convulsion Now this Priest accompanied him untill death who seazed upon the purse for feare least another should take it saying hee would say Masses for his soule Moreover hee furnisht himselfe with his cloathes and with all the rest of his things I have recited this History as a monstrous thing that the Souldier fell not to ground when he had received this great stroake and was in good senses even till death Soone after the Campe was broken for divers causes the one because we were advertized that foure companies of Spaniards were entred into Parpignam the other that the Plague begun much in our Campe and it was told us by the people of the countrey that shortly there would bee a great overflowing of the Sea which might drowne us all and the presage which they had was a very great winde from Sea which arose in such manner that there remained not one Tent which was not broken and overthrowne for all the strength and diligence that could be given and the Kitchins being all uncovered the winde raised so the dust and sand which salted and poudred our meate in such sort that wee could not eate it so that wee were constrained to boile it in pots and other vessells well covered Now we did not uncampe our selves in so good time but that there were many Carts and Carters Mules and Mule drivers drowned in the Sea with great losse of baggage The Campe broken I returned to Paris The voyage to Landresy 1544. KIng Francis raised a great Army to victuall Landresy on the other side the Emperour had no lesse people yea much more that is to say eighteene thousand Germans tenne thousand Spaniards sixe thousand Wallons tenne thousand English and a matter of thirteene or foureteene thousand Horse I saw the two Armies neare one another within Canon shot and it was thought they would never part without giving battaile There were some certaine foolish Gentlemen who would approach the enemies Campe certaine shot was made at them and some dyed at the place others had their Legges or Armes carried away The King having done what hee desired which was to revictuall Landresy retired himselfe with his Army to Guise which was the day after All Saints one thousand five hundred forty foure and from thence I returned to Paris The Voyage of Boulogne 1545. A Little while after we went to Boulogne where the English seeing our Army left the Forts which they had that is to say Moulambers the little Paradise Monplaisir the fort of Shatillon the Portet the Fort Dardelot One day going through the Campe to dresse my hurt people the enemies who were in the Tower of Order shot off a peece of Ordinance thinking to kill two horsemen which stayd to talke one with another It happened that the Bullet passed very neare one of them which threw him to the ground and t' was thought the said Bullet had toucht him which it did not at all but onely the winde of the said Bullet in the midst of his coate which went with such a force that all the outward part of the Thigh became blacke and blew and had muchadoe to stand I drest him and made him divers Scarifications to evacuate the contused blood which the winde of the said Bullet
had made and the rebounds that it made on the ground kild foure souldiers which remained dead in the place I was not farre from this stroake so that I felt some-what the mooved aire without doing mee any harme than a little feare which made mee stoope my head very low but the Bullet was already passed farre beyond mee The Souldiers mock't me to be affraid of a Bullet already gone My little Master I thinke if you had beene there that I had not beene affraid alone and that you would have had your share of it What shall I say more Monsieur the Duke of Guise Francis of Lorraine was hurt before Bullogne with a stroake of a Lance which above the right eye declining towards the nose entred and pass'd quite through on the other side betweene the nucha and the eare with so great a violence that the head of the Lance with a great part of the wood was broken and remained within in such sort that it could not bee drawne out but with great force yea with Smithes pincers Notwithstanding all this violence which was not done without breaking of bones nerves and arteries and other parts my said Lord by the helpe of God was cured the said Lord went alwayes with open face which was the cause that the Lance went through on the other side The voyage of Germany 1552. I Went the voyage to Germany in the yeare 1552. with Monsieur De Rohan Captaine of 50. horse where I was Chirurgion of his company which I have said already In this voyage Monsieur the high Constable of France was Generall of the Army Monsieur de Chastillon since Admirall was chiefe Colonell of the foote having foure Regiments of Lansquenets under the conduct of these Captaines Recrod and Riâ—grave having each of them two Regiments each Regiment was of tenne Ensignes and each Ensigne of five hundred men And besides these was Captaine Chartel who conducted the troopes that the Protestant Princes had sent to the King This was a very faire company on foote accompanied with fifteene hundred Horse with the following of each one two Archers which might make foure thousand five hundred Horse besides two thousand Light horse and as many Muskettieres on horsebacke of whom Monsieur de Aumalle was Generall besides the great number of Nobility who came for their pleasure Moreover the King was accompanied with two hundred Gentlemen of his house likewise with divers Princes there was also for his troope that served him the French Scottish and Swissers Guards amounting to sixe hundred men on foote and the companies of Monsieur the Dolphin Messieres de Guise de Aumalle and of the Marshall S. Andrew which amounted to foure hundred Lances which was a mervelous thing to see such a faire Company and in this equipage the King entred into Thou and Mets. I will not omit to tell that it was ordained that the Companions of Messieres de Rohan of the Count of Sancerr of Iarnac which was each of them of fifty horse went by the Wings of the Campe and God knowes we had scarcitie of victualls and I protest to God that at three divers times I had thought I should have beene famisht and it was not for want of money for I had enough and we could not have victualls but by force by reason that the Pesants withdrew it all into the Citties and Castles One of the servants of a Captaine of the company of Monsieur de Rohan went with others thinking to enter into a Church where the Pesants were retired thinking to finde victualls by force or love but amongst the rest this man was well beaten and returned with seaven wounds with a sword in the head the least of which penetrated the second table of the scull and he had foure other upon the armes and upon the right shoulder which cut more than one halfe of the blade-bone or Omoplate He was brought backe to his masters lodging who seeing of him so wounded and that they were to depart thence the morrow after at the breake of day and not thinking ever he could be cured made him a grave and would have cast him therein saying that or else the Pesants would massacre and kill him I mov'd with pitty told him that he might yet be cured if he were well drest divers Gentlemen of the company prayd him that he would cause him to bee brought along with the Baggage seeing I had the willingnesse to dresse him to which he agreed and after that I had cloth'd him he was but put into a Cart upon a bed well covered and well accommodated which one horse did draw I did the office of a Physition Apothecary Chirurgion and Cooke I drest him even to the end of his cure and God cured him in so much that all these three Companies admired at this cure The horsemen of the company of Monsieur de Rohan the first muster that was made gave me each one one Crowne and the Archers halfe a Crowne The voyage of Danvilliers 1552. AT the returne from the German Campe King Henry beseiged Danvilliers those within would not render They were well beaten and our pouder failed us in the meane time they shot much at our people There was a Culverin shot pass'd a traverse the Tent of Monsieur de Rohan which hit a Gentlemans Leg which was of his traine which I was faine to finish the cutting off the which was done without applying hot irons The King sent for pouder to Sedan which being come they began a greater battery than before in such sort that they made a breach Messiers de Guise and the high Constable being in the Kings Chamber told him they concluded the next day to make assault that they were assured they should enter into it that they should keep it secret lest the enemy were advertized And all of them promised not to speake of it to any one Now there was a Groome of the Kings chamber who lay under the Kings bed in the Camp to sleep understood that they resolved the next day to give an assault he presently revealed it to a certaine Captaine and told him that for certaine the day following assault should be given that he had heard it of the King praid the said Captaine that he would not speake a word of it to any body which he promised but his promise was not kept for at the same instant he went and declared it to a Captaine this Captaine to another Captaine and from the Captaines to some of the Souldiers saying alwayes say nothing It was so well hid that the next day early in the morning there was seene the greatest part of the Souldiers with their round hose and their breeches cut at knee for the better mounting at the breach The King was advertiz'd of the rumor which runne through the Campe that the assault must be given whereof hee much mervailed seeing there was but three of that advise which had
way that we had put many of them in a great Tower layd upon a little straw and their pillowes were stones their coverlets were their cloakes of those that had any Whilst the battery was making as many shot as the Cannons made the patients sayd they felt paine in their woundes as if one had given them blowes with a staffe the one cry'd his head the other his arme and so of other parts divers of their wounds bled afresh yea in greater quantity than first when they were wounded and then it was I must runne to stay their bleeding My little master if you had beene there you had beene much troubled with your hot irons you had neede to have had much charcoale to make them red hot and belee ve they would have slaine you like a Calfe for this cruelty Now through this diabolicall tempest of the Eccho from these thundring Instruments and by the great and vehement agitation of the collision of the ayre resounding and reverberating in the wounds of the hurt people divers dyed and others because they could not rest by reason of the groanes and cryes that they made night and day and also for want of good nourishment and other good usage necessary to wounded people Now my little master if you had beene there you would hardly have given them gelly restauratives cullises pressures panado cleansed barly white meate almond milke Prunes Raisons and other proper meates for sicke people your ordinance would onely have beene accomplisht in paper but in effect they could have had nothing but old Cow beefe which was taken about Hedin for our munition salted and halfe boyled insomuch that who would have eate it he must pull it with the force of his teeth as birds of Prey doe carrion I will not forget their linnen wherewith they were drest which was onely rewashed every day and dryed at the fire and therefore dry stubborne like Parchment I leave you to thinke how their wounds could heale well There was â—oure lusty whores to whom charg was given to wash their linnen who discharged their duty under penalty of the batoone and also they wanted both soape and water See then how the sicke people dyed for want of nourishments and other necessary things One day our enemies fained to give us a generall assault to draw our Souldiers upon the breach to the end to know our countenance and behaviour every one ranne thither we had made great provision of artificiall fire to defend the breach a Priest belonging to Monsieur du Boüillon tooke a granado thinking to throw it on the enemies and set it on fire sooner then he ought to have done it brake asunder and the fire fell amongst our fire workes which were put into a house neere the breach which was to us a mervelous disastre because it burned diverse poore souldiers it also tooke hold on the house it selfe and we had beene all burned had not great helpe beene used for to quench it there was but one Well there wherein was water in our Castle which was almost quite dryed up and in steede of water we tooke beere and quenched it then afterwards we had great scarcity of water and to drinke the rest that remained which we must straine through napkins Now the enemy seeing this smoake and tempest of the fire workes which cast a very great flame and clashing noyse beleeved wee had put the fire on purpose for the defence of our breach to burne them and that wee had great store of others That made them to be of another opinion than to taken us by assault they did undermine and digge into the greatest part of our walls so that it was the way to overthrow wholly the Castle topsie turvie and when the mines were finisht and that their Artillery shot the whole Castle did shake under us like an earthquake which did much astonish us Moreover he had levelled five peeces of Artillery which they had seated upon a little hill to play upon our backes when wee should goe to defend the breach The Duke Horace had a Cannon shot upon one shoulder which caried away his arme on one side and the body on the other without being able to speake one onely word His death was to us a great disasture for the ranke which hee held in this place Likewise Monsieur de Martigues had a stroake with a Bullet which peire't through his Lungs I drest him as I will declare hereafter Then we demanded Parle and a Trumpet was sent toward the Prince of Piedmont to know what composition it pleased him to make us His answer was that all the chiefe as Gentlemen Captaines Lievtenants and Ensignes should be taken for ransome and the Souldiers should goe out without Armes and if they refused this faire and honest proffer the next day we ought to be assured they would have us by assault or otherwise Counsell was held where I was called to know if I would signe as divers Captaines Gentlemen and others that the place should bee rendred up I made answer it was not possible to be held and that I would signe it with my proper blood for the little hope that I had that wee could resist the enemies force and also for the great desire which I had to be out of this torment and hell for I slept not eyther night or day by reason of the great number of hurt people which were about two hundred The dead bodies yeelded a great putrifaction being heaped one upon the other like Fagots and not being covered with earth because we had it not and when I entred into one lodging Souldiers attended me at the dore to goe dresse others at another when I went forth there was striving who should have me and they carried me like a holy body not touching the ground with my foote in spight one of another nor could I satisfie so great a number of hurt people Moreover I had not what was necessary to dresse them withall for it is not sufficient that the Chirurgion doe his duty towards the patients but the patient must also doe his and the assistance and all exterior things witnesse Hippocrates in his first Aphorisme Now having understood the resolution of the yeelding up of our place I knew our affaires went not well and for feare of being knowne I gave a veluet Coate a Satin doublet a very fine cloth cloak lin'd with velvet to a Souldier who gave me a scurvy old torne doublet cut and flasht with using and a leather jerkin well examined and an ill favoured hat and a little cloake I smutcht the collar of my shirt with water in which I had mingled a little soote likewise I wore out my stockings with a stone at the knees and the heeles as if they had beene worne a long time and I did as much to my shooes in so much that they would rather take me for a Chimney sweeper than a Kings Chirurgion I went in this equipage towards Monsieur de
seeing that in the way we were alwayes in alarums I caused my man to alight making him to be my master for that time and I got upon his horse which carryed my male and tooke his cloake and hat and gave him my ambling Mare My man being upon her backe one would have taken him for the master and I for the servant Those of Dourlan seeing us farre off thought we were enemies and let flye their Cannon shot at us Captaine Govas◠my conductor made signe with his hat that we were not enemies so that they left shooting and we entred into Dourlan with great joy Those of Dourlan made a sally forth upon the enemies five or sixe dayes before who kild and hurt diverse of our Captaines and good souldiers and amongst the rest Captaine St. Aubin valiant at the sword whom Monsieur de Guise loved very well and for whom chiefely the King sent me thither who being in the fit of a quartaine feaver would needes goe out to command the greatest part of his company a Spaniard seeing him that he commanded perceived hee was a Captaine and shot a musket bullet quite through his necke my Captaine Saint Aubin thought with this stroake he was dead and with the feare I protest to God he lost his quartane ague and was altogether freed from it I dressed him with Anthony Portall Chirurgion in ordinary to the King and divers other Souldiers some dyed others escaped quit with the losse of a legge or an arme or the losse of an eye and they sayd they escaped good cheape escape that can When the enemie had broke their Campe I returned to Paris Heere I hold my peace of my little master who was more at ease in his house than I at the Warres The voyage of Harbor of Grace 1563. YEt I will not omit to speake of the voyage of the Harbor of Grace then when they made the approaches to plant the Artillery the English who were within it kild some of our Souldiers divers Pioners who undermined who when they were seene to be so hurt that there was no hope of curing their fellowes stript them put them yet alive in the mines which served them for so much filling earth The English seeing they could not withstand an assault because they were very much attainted with diseases and chiefely with the Plague they yeelded their lives and jewells saved The King caused them to have shippes to returne to England being glad to be out of this place infected with the Plague the greatest part dyed and carryed the Plague into England and since have not yet beene exempted Captaine Sarlabous master of the Campe was left there in garrison with sixe Ensignes on foote who had no feare of the Plague and were very joyfull to enter therein hoping there to make good cheere My little master had you beene there you had done as they The Voyage to Roüen 1562. NOw for the taking of Roüen they kild divers of ours before the assault and at the assault the day after they entred into the Citty I Trepaned eight or nine who were hurt at the breach with the stroakes of stones There was so malignant an ayre that divers dyed yea of very small hurts insomuch that some thought they had poysoned their bullets those within sayd the like by us for although they were well treated in their necessities within the Citty yet they dyed also aswell as those without The King of Navar was hurt in the shoulder with a bullet some sew dayes before the assault I visited and help◠to dresse him with his owne Chirurgion named Master Gilbert one of the chiefe of Montpelier and others They could not finde the bullet I searcht for it very exactly I perceived by conjecture that it was entred by the head of the Adiutorium and that it had runne into the cavity of the sayd bone which was the cause we could not finde it The most part of them sayd it was entred and loft within the cavity of the body Monsieur the Prince of the Rocke upon You who intimately loved the King of Navarre drew me to one side and askt me if the wound was mortall I told him yea because all wounds made in great joynts and principally contused wounds were mortall according to all Authors who have written of them He enquired of the others what they thought and cheefely of the sayd Gilbert who told him that hee had great hope that the King his master would be cured and the sayd Prince was very joyfull Foure dayes after the King and the Queene mother Monsieur the Cardinall of Bourbon his brother Monsieur the Prince of Rocke upon Yon Monsieur de Guise and other great personages after we had dressed the King of Navarre caused a consultation to be made in their presences where there was diverse Physitions and Chirurgions each man sayd what seemed good unto him and there was not one of them who had not good hope of him saying that the King would be cured and I persisted alwayes on the contrary Monsieur the Prince of the Rocke upon Yon who loved me withdrew me aside and sayd I was onely against the opinion of all the rest and prayd me not to be obstinate against so many worthy men I answered him that when I saw any good signes of cure I would change my advise Divers consultations were made where I never changed my word and prognosticke such as I had made at the first dressing and alwayes sayd that the arme would fall into a Gangreene which it did what diligence soever could be had to the contrary and gave up his soule to God the eighteenth day of his hurt Monsieur the Prince Vpon Yon having heard of the death of the sayd King sent his Physition and Chirurgion toward me named Feure now in ordinary to the King and to the Queene Mother to tell me that he would have the bullet taken out and that it should be lookt for in what place so ever it could be found then I was very joyfull and told them that I was well assured to finde it quickely which I did in their presences and divers gentlemen It was lodged in the very midst of the cavity of the Adiutory bone My sayd Prince having it shewed it to the King and the Queene who all sayd my prognosticke was found true The body was layd to rest in the Castle Galliard and I returned to Paris where I found divers hurt men who were hurt at the breach at Roüen and cheefely Italians who desired me very much to dresse them which I did willingly there were divers that recovered and others dyed I beleeve my little master you were called to dresse some of them for the great number there was of them The Voyage of the battell of Dreux 1562. THe day after the battell given at Dreun the King commanded me to goe dresse Monsieur the Count of Eu who had beene hurt with a Pistoll shot in the right thigh neere the joynt