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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19029	A right frutefull and approoued treatise, for the artificiall cure of that malady called in Latin Struma, and in English, the evill, cured by kinges and queenes of England Very necessary for all young practizers of chyrurgery. Written by William Clowes, one of her Maiesties chyrurgions, in the yeare of our Lord. 1602.	Clowes, William, ca. 1540-1604.	1602 (1602)	STC 5446; ESTC S105025	43,357	77

that I haue séene and knowne performed and done by the sacred and blessed hands of the Quéenes most Royall Maiesty whose happinesse and felicity the Lord long continue But sith the barrennesse of my learning and wit is such and that my memorie will not affoord mee héere orderlie to set downe in fewe words that which I doe conceiue and vnderstand touching this my determined purpose for the Cure of this haynous Maladie which in the Pilgrimage of my practize and contemplations I haue most diligentlie obserued not onely by mine owne selfe with such portion of knowledge as the Lord hath endued me withall But also I haue béen a diligent and a painfull obseruer of the labours and practises of others being men of great knowledge and sound iudgement in the Arte Wherefore to make héere manifest the cause which hath pricked mee héere forward to leaue my other affaires and so to drawe me from my ordinarie practises and studies being more beneficiall for my maintenances is not that I goe about héereby to impaire the credit or reputation of others being more auncient Professors It is the Lord God knoweth farre from my true meaning they are those whome I loue honour and reuerence Neyther doe I héer ambitiously goe about with the swéet impression of fayre promises greater then my abilitie is to teach and instruct or curiously to set downe a better and perfecter way of curing this haynous Malady then others more learned men before me I may not well say so Neuerthelesse he hardlie may be accompted for a good Soldier which hath learned no more then his Captaine hath taught him or a barrensconce that hath no inuentions in it But I will confesse héere the onely cause why I haue enterprized or taken vpon me to write of this forenamed Infirmitie is I protest a token of my loue and diligence towards all young Practisers of this noble Arte of Chirurgerie howsoeuer otherwise a painfull and tedious trauel vnto me Notwithstanding I could in no wise satisfie the expectation of certaine of my vnfained friends but that I must make here a true briefe rehearsall of my owne obseruations and knowledge touching the cure of the foresaid Euill which a long time I haue practised How be it being sorry to minister An Apology to answere certaine reproachfull back-biters offence to any by reason of publication héereof Notwithstanding I haue béen crediblie enformed and also it is vnto my selfe well knowne there bee some whome I litle suspected and lesse thought vpon would haue béen so wilfully bent without iust cause to giue occasion of offence and did séeme as it were to repine and mislike of this my enterprise and as it were did partly reiect my knowledge and iudgement concerning the Cure before named and in the presence of certaine persons of good sort brake out with ambitious curiosity and said I was not capable of the Theoricke of this my Subiect and so wanted knowledge of my selfe to publish these matters which I haue héere taken vpon mee in some measure to performe and thus went about not onely to discredit mee but likewise to put me to vtter silence as though I had spent all the daies of my life in the rude woodes or wilde Forrest of Ignorance Which thing as it gréeued me to heare so in maner it forced mee to answere Let these men sooth themselues I say neuer so much they are knowne to be of no such déep learning nor exquisite Literature as they would make the world beléeue Howbeit if it please these enuious men to speake iudge of me with equity right it is wel knowne to most men He that will vse Chyrurgery must needly follow the wars attend on forrain● Armies Hipo. Lib. de Medic that I haue studied practised this worthy Arte of Chirurgery sithence the 4. yeare of her Maiesties Raigne Anno Dom. 1563. Where first I serued in her Highnes wars at New-hauen vnder the commaund of the Right Honorable Ambrose Earle of Warwicke Knight of the Noble Order of the Garter then Lieuetenant of the Army Forces in those parts After with seruice being ended before I was appointed Chirurgian to serue in her Maiesties Nauy in her ships Royall also in other men of war within a smal time after I was imployed in the Hospitalles in London and there practised the said Arte of Chirurgery for certaine yéeres vntill I was sent for vnto the wars in the Low Countries by the Noble Earle of Leicester and further commaunded by her Maiesty with all spéed to repaire vnto the said Earle where I continued for the space of 9. Moneths since before I haue had conference also often practised with the best and skilfullest Chyrurgians both English and Strangers within the City of London and else where and now as it were partly ouer-worne with yeares and Seruices Nothwithstanding by her Maiesties fauour and good liking whome the Almighty long preserue now I am sworne admitted one of her Highnes Chirurgians And therefore in all reasonable He that pitch doth touch shall defiled be with such likely-hood I am not so barren or grosse witted and vnlearned in the Arte as some haue termed mee to bee And yée shall further vnderstand it was not long before it pleased some of them to say they had graced me with the good opinion they had of me and moreouer stood in the gap of my defence against other such which then were also sore troubled with the Fluxe of a fowle mouth vsed me at their pleasures for their common Table talke with scoffing fléering and deriding aboue manners and modesty The same being tolde mee me thought it was a strange alteration howbeit I did take their good spéeches very kindly and so would haue done still if it had pleased them to continue in the same good opinion of me or to haue bin silent But it is truly said Hanibal knew wel how to subdue the Romanes yet he knew not how to entertaine his Victories It is not enough for a man to haue begun a good worke vnlesse he stil preseuer continue in the same Wherfore I wil héere abreuiate my spéeches wishing to God that this my labor were so perfect that I néeded not to regard the curious examination censure of any aduersary neyther will I detaine you with many moe circumstances but here acknowledge my own vnworthynes And therfore I beséech thée friendly Reader in a word to suffer mee with pacience to signifie vnto you that I doe not héere peremptorily goe about to teach or instruct such persons which are already grounded in the principles and knowledge of this Arte But my onely meaning is to direct my whole course according as I haue obserued the best learned haue héeretofore done in all times and ages that is vnto the Iunior or yonger Chir●rgiens whe as it were haue made but an entrance into the practice of the said facultie whose skill peraduenture is as yet not