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A08911	The workes of that famous chirurgion Ambrose Parey translated out of Latine and compared with the French. by Th: Johnson; Works. English	Paré, Ambroise, 1510?-1590.; Johnson, Thomas, d. 1644.; Cecil, Thomas, fl. 1630, engraver.; Baker, George, 1540-1600.	1634 (1634)	STC 19189; ESTC S115392	1,504,402	1,066

sore eyes a paper wherein the two greeke letters Π and A are written must bee tyed in a thred and hanged about the necke And for the tooth ache this ridiculous saying Strigiles falcesque dentatae dentium dolorem persanate Also oft times there is no small superstition in things that are outwardly applied Such is that of Apollonius in Pliny to scarifie the gummes in the t●… ache with the tooth of one that died a violent death to make pils of the skull of one hanged against the bitings of a mad dogge to cure the falling sicknesse by eating the flesh of a wilde beast killed with the same iron wherewith a man was killed that he shall be freed from a quartaine ague who shall drinke the wine whereinto the sword that hath cut off a mans head shall be put and he the parings of whose nailes shall be tyed in a linnen cloth to the necke of a quicke Eele and the Eele let goe into the water againe The paine of the Milt to be asswaged if a beasts Milt bee laid upon it and the Physitian say that he cures or makes a medicine for the Milt Any one to bee freed from the cough who shall spit in the mouth of a Toad letting her goe away alive The halter wherein one hath beene hanged put about the temples to helpe the head ache This word Abracadabra written on a paper after the manner described by Serenus and hanged about the necke to help agues or feavers especially semitertians What truth can bee in that which sundry affirme that a leafe of Lathyris which is a kinde of Spurge if it be plucked upwards will cause vomit but broken downewards will move to stoole You may also finde many other superstitious fictions concerning herbes such as Galen reports that Andreas and Pamphilus writ as incantations transformations and herbes dedicated to conjurers and devills I had thought never in this place to have mentioned these and the like but that there may bee every where found such wicked persons who leaving the arts and means which are appointed by God to preserve the health of mans body flye to the superstitious ridiculous remedies of sorcerers or rather of devils which notwithstanding the devill sometimes makes to performe their wisht for effects that so hee may still keep them ensnared addicted to his service Neither is it to be approved which many say that it is good to be healed by any art or meanes for that healing is a good worke This saying is unworthy of a Christian and savours rather of him that trusts more in the devill than in God Those Empericks are not of the society of Sorcerers and Magitians who heale simple wounds with dry lint or lint dipt in water this cure is neither magicall nor miraculous as many suppose but wholly naturall proceeding from the healing fountains of nature wounds fractures which the Chirurgian may heale by onely taking away the impediments that is paine defluxion inflammation an abscesse and gangrene which retard and hinder the cure of such diseases The following examples will sufficiently make evident the devils maliciousnesse alwaies wickedly and craftily plotting against our safety and life A certaine woman at Florence as Langius writes having a maligne ulcer and being troubled with intolerable paine at the stomacke so that the Physitians could give her no ease behold on a sudden shee vomited up long and crooked nailes and brasse needles wrapped up with wax and haires and at length a great gobbit of flesh so bi●ge that a Giants jawes could scarce swallow it But that which happened in the yeere of our redemption 1539. in a certain town called Fugenstall in the Bishopricke of Eistet exceeds all credit unlesse there were eye-witnesses of approved integrity yet living In this towne one Ulrich Neusesser a husbandman was tormented with grievous paine in the one side of his belly hee sodainely got hold of an iron key with his hand under the skinne which was not hurt the which the Barber-Chirurgian of the place cut out with his razour yet for all this the paine ceased not but hee grew every day worse than other wherefore expecting no other remedy but death he got a knife and cut his throat His dead body was opened and in his stomacke were found a round and longish piece of wood foure steele knives part sharpe and part toothed like a saw and two sharpe peices of iron each whereof exceeded the length of a spanne there was also as it were a ball of haire All these things were put in by the craft and deceit of the devill Thus farre Langius CHAP. XVIII Of the Cozenages and crafty Trickes of Beggars HAving treated of Monsters it followes that wee speake of those things which either of themselves by reason of their nature full of admiration have some kinde of monstrousnesse in them or else from some other waies as by the craft and cozenage of men And because to the last mentioned crafts of the Devill the subtle devices of begging companions are sowewhat alike therefore I will handle them in the next place that the Chirurgian being admonished of them may be more cautious and cunning in discerning them when hee meets with them Anno Dom. 1525. when I was at Anjou there stood a crafty beggar begging at the Church dore who tying and hiding his owne arme behind his backe shewed in steed thereof one cut from the body of one that was hanged and this he propped up and bound to his breast and so laid it open to view as if it had been all enflamed so to move such as passed by unto greater commiseration of him The cozenage lay hid every one giving him mony untill at length his counterfeit arm not being surely fastened fell upon the ground many seeing and observing it hee being apprehended and layed in prison by the appointment of the Magistrate was whipped through the towne with his false arme hanging before him and so banished I had a brother called John Parey a Chirurgian who dwelt at Vitre in Britany he once observed a young woman begging who shewed her breast as if it had a cancrous ulcer thereon looking fearfully by reason of much and fordid filth wherewith it seemed to defile the cloath that lay under it But when as hee had more diligently beheld the womans face and the fresh colour thereof as also of the places about the ulcer and the good habite of the whole body agreeable to that colour for she was somewhat fat and of a very good habite of body he was easily hereby induced to suspect some roguery and deceit He acquainted the Magistrate with this his suspicion and got leave that hee might carry her home to his house so to search her more narrowly Where opening her breast he found under her arme-pit a sponge moistened with a commixture of beasts blood and milke and carried through an elder pipe to the hidden holes of her counterfeit cancer Therefore he foments her

by the fiered Gun-pouder throw downe all things with a horrid force and that more speedily and violently by how much they resist the more powerfully by their hardnesse They report that Lightning melts the money not hurting the purse Now many by the onely violence of the aire agitated and vehemently mooved by shooting a peice of Ordinance as touched with Lightning have dyed in a moment their bones beeing shivered and broken no signe of hurt appearing in the skinne The smell of Gunpouder when it is fiered is hurtfull firy and sulphurous just like that which exhales or comes from bodies killed with Lightning For men doe not onely shunne this smell but also wilde Beasts leave their Dennes if touched with Lightnings Now the cruelty of great Ordinance makes no lesse spoyle amongst buildings nor slaughter amongst men and beasts than Lightnings doe as wee have formerly showne by examples not onely horrid to see but even to heare reported as of Mines the Arcenall of Paris the Cittie of Malignes These may seeme sufficient to reach that Thunder and Lightning have a great similitude with the shooting of great Ordinance which notwithstanding I would not have alike in all things For they neither agree in substance nor matter but onely in the manner of violent breaking asunder the objects Now let us see and examine what manner of cure of wounds made by Gunshot our adversarie substitutes for ours For hee would have suppuratives used and applyed yet such as should not be hot and most in qualitie or of an Emplasticke consistence but hot and dry things For saith hee here is not the same reason as in Abscesses where the Physition intends nothing but suppuration But heere because a contusion is present with the wound this requires to bee ripened with suppuratives but the wound to be dryed Now to answer this objection I will referre him to Galen who will teach him the nature of suppuratives from whom also hee may learne that great regard is to be had of the cause and more urgent order in the cure of compound diseases then would I willingly learne of him whether he can heale a wound made by Gunshot not first bringing that which is contused to perfect maturitie If hee affirme hee can I will be judged by whatsoever Practitioners hee will to judge how obscure these things are Whereby you may the better understand there is nothing more commodious than our Basilicon and oyle of Whelpes to ripen wounds made by Gunshot if so bee that putrifaction corruption a Gangreen or some other thing doe not hinder Then would hee have Oxycrate poured into these wounds to stay their bleeding which if it cannot so bee stayed hee would have a medicine applyed consisting of the white of an Egge Bole Armenicke oile of Roses and salt But I leave it to other mens judgement whether these medicines have power to stay bleeding if put into the wound certainly they will make it bleede the more For Vinegar seeing it is of a tenuious substance and biting it is no doubt but that it will cause paine defluxion and inflammation To which purpose I remember I put to stanch bleeding for want of another remedie a medicine wherein was some Vinegar into a wound received by a Moore an attendant of the Earle of Roissy hurt with a Lance run through his arme before Bologne by an English horseman But he comes againe to mee a little after complaining and crying out that all his arme burnt like fire wherefore I was glad to dresse him againe and put another medicine into his wound and layd an astringent medicine upon the wound but poured it not therein And then above all other remedies hee extolls his Balsame composed of Oyle of Waxe and Myrrhe beaten together with the white of an Egge which hee saith is equall in operation to the naturall Balsame of Peru. For hee affirmes that this hath a facultie to consume the excrementitious humidity of wounds and so strengthens the parts that no symptome afterwards troubles them Yet hee saith this doth not so well heale and agglutinate these wounds as it doth others which are cut Verily it is ridiculous to thinke that contused wounds can bee healed after the same manner as simple wounds may which onely require the uniting of the loosed continuitie Therefore neither can these Balsames be fit remedies to heale wounds made by Gunshot seeing by reason of their drynesse they hinder suppuration which unlesse it be procured the patient cannot be healed Wherefore such things ought not to be put into wounds of this nature before they be ripened washed and clensed from their filth Yet can I scarse conceive where we shall be able to finde out so many Chymists which may furnish us with these things sufficiently to dresse so many wounded souldiers as usually are in an Army or whence the souldiers shall have sufficient meanes to beare the charge thereof Also that which he saith is absurd that these Balsames must bee put into the wounds without Tents and presently forgetting himselfe hee saith It will not bee amisse if there bee a little and slender Tent put into the wound which may onely serve to hinder the agglutination thereof But how can these Balsames come to the bottomes of wounds without Tents when as it is their chiefe propertie to carry medicines even to the innermost parts of the wounds and alwayes keepe open a free passage for the evacuation of the quitture But it is note worthy that after hee hath rejected unguentum Aegyptiacum hee neverthelesse bids to apply it from the beginning untill the contusion come to perfect maturation dissolving it in a decoction of the tops of wormewood S. Iohn Wurt the lesser Centory and Plantaine and so injecting it into the wound Besides also a little after hee gives another way of using it which is to boyle a quantity of Hony of Roses in plantaine water carefully sciming it untill it bee boiled to the consistence of Hony and then to adde as much Aegyptiacum thereto and so to make an oyntment most fit to bring these wounds to supputation But I leave it for any skilfull in Chirurgery to judge whether such medicines can bee suppuratives or whether they bee not rather detersives Last of all hee writes that these wounds must bee drest but every fourth day And if there bee a fracture of the bone joyned with the wound then to moove nothing after the first dressing untill the eighth day after then presently in another place hee faith it will bee good and expedient to drop ten or twelve droppes of the formerly described Balsame every day into the wound Verily such doctrine which neyther agrees with its selfe nor the truth cannot but much pusle a Novice and young Practitioner in Chirurgery who is not yet versed in the Art or the operations thereof CHAP. XIIII Another Apologie against those who have laboured with new reasons to proove that wounds made by Gunshot are poysoned SOme

she fearlesly and harmelesly takes all manner of fruits herbs sheaves of corn apples peares oranges and pulse And herein they have proceeded so farre that they feign they will love Virgins entised by their beauty so that stayed in the contemplation of them and allured by their entisements they by this meanes are often taken by hunters In this opinion is Lewes Vartoman who denies that Unicornes are wild or fierce for he saith that he saw two which were sent out of Aethiopia to the Sultan who kept them shut up in Pennes in Mecha a city of Arabia foelix renowned by the Sepulcher of Mahomet Thevet travailing thither tels that he diligently enquired of the inhabitants what their opinion was of such a beast yet could he never heare any tidings thereof Whence it is easie to discerne that such beasts have neither beene in our nor in Vartomans times The so great variety of dissenting opinions easily induceth me to beleeve that this word Unicorne is not the proper name of any beast in the world and that it is a thing onely feigned by Painters and Writers of naturall things to delight the readers and beholders For as there is but one right way but many by-waies and windings so the speech of truth is but one and that alwaies simple and like it selfe but that of a lye is divers and which may easily refell it selfe by the repugnancie and incongruity of opinions if one should say nothing What therefore will some say of what creatures are these hornes which we see wholly different from others if they be not of Unicorns Thevet thinks them nothing else than Elephants bones turned and made into the fashion that wee see them for thus in the Eastern countreies some crafty merchants and cunning companions turne hollow and being softened draw to what length they please the teeth of the fish Roharde which lives in the ●ed and Aethiopian Sea and being so handled they sell them for Unicornes horne Verily that which is termed Unicornes horne being burnt sends forth a smell like to Ivory Now Cardanus affirmes that the teeth and bones of Elephants made soft by art may bee drawne forth and brought into what forme you please like as Oxe bones are For what is there in the world which the thirsting desire of gold will not make men to adulterate and counterfeit But it is time that we come to the third scope Grant there be Unicornes must it therefore follow that their hornes must be of such efficacy against poysons If we judge by events and the experience of things I can protest thus much that I have often made tryall thereof yet could I never find any good successe in the use thereof against poisons in such as I have had in cure If the matter must bee tryed by witnesses and authorities a great part of the Physicians of better note have long since bid it adieu and have detracted from the divine and admirable vertues for which it formerly was so much desired And this they have done moved thereto by many just but two especiall reasons The first is of Rondeletius who in this case affirmes that horns are endued with no taste nor smell and therefore have no effect in physicke unlesse it bee to dry Neither saith hee am I ignorant that such as have them much predicate their worth so to make the greater benefit and gaine by them as of the shavings or scrapings of Unicornes horne which they sell for the weight in gold as that which is singular good against poysons and wormes which things I thinke Harts-horne and Ivory doe no lesse effectually performe which is the cause why for the same disease and with the like successe I prescribe Ivory to such as are poor and Unicornes horn to the rich as that they so much desire This is the opinion of Rondeletius who without any difference was wont for Unicornes horne to prescribe not onely Harts-horn or Ivory but also the bones of Horses and Dogges and the stones of Myrabalanes Another reason is that whatsoever resists poyson is cordiall that is fit to strengthen the heart which is chiefly assailed by poysons but nothing is convenient to strengthen the heart unlesse it bee by laudible blood or spirit which two are onely familiar to the heart as being the work-house of the arterious blood and vitall spirits For all things are preserved by their like as they are destroyed by their contraries for all things that generate generate things like themselves But Unicornes horne as it conteines no smell so neither hath it any aëry parts but is wholly earthy and dry neither can it bee converted into blood by the digestive faculty for as it is without juice so is it without flesh For as it cannot bee turned into Chylus so neither is it fit to become Chymus that is juice or blood Therefore it is joyned to the heart by no similitude nor familiarity Furthermore there is not a word in Hippocrates and Galen concerning the Unicornes horne who notwithstanding have in so many places commended Harts-horne Therefore D. Chapelaine the chiefe Physitian of King Charles the ninth often used to say that hee would very willingly take away that custome of dipping a piece of Unicorns horn in the Kings cup but that he knew that opinion to be so deeply ingrafted in the minds of men that he feared that it would scarce be impugned by reason Besides he said if such a superstitious medicine do no good so certainely it doth no harme unlesse it be to their estates that buy it with gold or else by accident because Princes whilst they rely more than is fitting upon the magnified vertues of this horne neglect to arme themselves against poys●●s by other more convenient meanes so that Death oft-times takes them at unawares When as upon a time I enquired of Lewes Duret the Kings Physitian and Professor by reason of the great opinion that all learned men justly had of his learning and judgement what he thought of this horne He answered that he attributed no faculties thereto for the confirmation whereof he rendred the second reason I have formerly given but more largely and elegantly neither feared he to affirme it aloud in plain words to his auditory of learned men comming from all parts to hear him But if at any time orecome by the fault of the times place he prescrib'd this horn that he did it for no other entent than to help faintings or sownings that happen by the abundance of serous humors floating in the orifice of the ventricle which makes men ill disposed because this mixed with other things endued with the like faculty hath power to drinke up the waterish humidity by its earthy drinesse But some will reply that neither the Lemnian nor Armenian earth have any juice in them neither any smell nor aëry spirit It is granted neither truely are such things truely and properly called cordiall but onely by event and accident for that

consequetur a qua Convulsio a convulsione cita mors Quorum symptomatum metu Galenus non ante transversa vulnera suere audebat quod tamen minus erat periculosum quàm 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 quàm 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 inflammation● 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 th●oug● 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 ●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 Vari●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