The Frenche chirurgerye, or all the manualle operations of chirurgerye , vvith divers, & sundrye figures, and amongst the rest, certayne nuefovvnde instrumentes, verye necessarye to all the operationes of chirurgerye. Through Iaques Guillemeau, of Orleans ordinarye chirurgiane to the Kinge, and sworen in the citye of Paris. And novv truelye translated out of Dutch into Englishe by A.M.

❧ Of the necessitye, and vtilitye, of the extractione or drawinge forth of all strange thinges. Cap. 1.

* 1.1AMongste all operatiōs of Chi∣rurgerye, the aunciente Chy∣rurgians of oulde times, have especiallye cōsidered, one the hādlinge, vvher vvith all vve most convenientlye, and apt∣lye, drevve forth out of mās bodye all māner of straunge & alienate thinges, as are Bullets, Arrovves, and all other sortes of vveapons, or all peeces of brokene bones, and many other such like things as beinge moste necessarye, for this foresayed operatione.

It is a Chyrurgiane full of crafte, That out of the bodye can plucke shafte.

* 1.2And even as in the vvarrelike affayres, tho∣se Capitaynes are esteemed to be moste cou∣ragious and valiant, vvhich one the suddayne can beste discerne and knovve ther enimyes. and allure and as it vveare dravve them, forth to their ovvne furtherance, to battayle: oras in chasinge, those hunters are esteemed fittest and expertest, vvhich suddaynelye can disco∣ver, or disclose, the harboure of the persecuted deere, and knovveth hovv he may vvith al fo∣resight chase the same: Even so have the Phy∣sitions alsoe, had those Chyrurgians in greate estimatiō, vvhich first of all, have founde out that parte of mans bodye, in the vvhich the bulletes, or Arrovves, or anye other alienate thinges have binne hidden and lodged, and vvhich have hadde knovvledge & science fit∣lye & convenientlye to dravve them therout: consideringe that throughe there continuan∣ce in the same, above al thinges they are clea∣ne contrarye vnto vs & vnsufferable, as that vvhich is deade, & livinge: so it is a hinderance vnto vs, and especialye to that parte, vvherin the foresayede vveapon, stickethe, and that as vvel of it selfe because that it vvholye, hinde∣rethe the curinge of the vvounde, or else be∣cause it bringethe to gether manye & heavye accidentes, the vvhich is cause of lamnesse or criplenesse in the vvounded parte: or els cau∣seth the health vvhich vve suppose to have gotten not to be perfecte, and sure, but is sub∣iecte vnto a farre vvorse returne & renuein∣ge of the same. Yet for all that I knovve so∣me vvhich are cured,* 1.3 in the vvhich the bullets as yet tarryae in some partes of ther bodye vvit hout beinge necessarye to have searched for the same to curiouslye, or to pluck it out al∣thoughe that vve might easylye have attayned there vnto, & touched it, because of the daun∣ger that therof might ensue: as for example, a violent bleedinge throughe laceratione of so∣me vayne, or arterye: anye great & violēt pay∣ne, throughe the stretchinge or dravvinge for the of some synnue, or Membranes: An espe∣ciallye it is not necessarye, curiouslye to search after such thinges, or to dravve them forthe, vvhich cā not rott, or corrupte, as that vvhich easylye, or in time can come to rotte. But yet it is allvvayes better, that all vvhich is strange and alienate vnto mans bodye, and is contay∣ned

in the same, be dravvene therout, then to lett it tarrye therin, because that the health (as vve have al readye sayed) is farre surer, concer∣ninge the daūger, that is then present, to cause the cured vvounde agayne to burst opē, vvhē as the bullet, or any such like thinge, cōmeth to repraesēt himselfe: or that vve shoulde not be cōstrayned to make an apertione anye vvhe¦re, vvhether the fore sayed bullet throughe his ponderousnes might chaūce to be descen∣ded.

* 1.4The Strange thinges of the vvhich in this place vve have spoken, are of tvvo manner of sortes, for they are, ether externall, as Irō, vvoo¦de, bullet, stone, or vvolle: or they are any sub∣stance of our bodyes, as anye splinters or par∣cells of bones, & the cōgealed bloode, vvhich vve notvvithstandinge esteme it straunge, be∣cause they are separated from our bodyes, and are noe more partakers of our lyfe, or vitall spirites, as they vveare before vvhē they as yet vveare all one vvith them, vvherfore they are novve become strange.

* 1.5My intente & purpose is nothinge els, then to describe vnto the yonge Chyrurgiane, the practice, of all bullets, and of al other strange thinges, vvhich might thervvith enter mingle themselves, or thervvith might be crushed to peeces, hovv to dravve thē out of the bodye: Because in th••se our dayes heere in Fraunce ther is noe other shott vsed: seinge that the knovvledge of the extractinge of the same, may easylye leade vs vnto the knovvledge, hovve to dravve forth shaftes, & Arrovves out of mans bodye, of the vvhich the aunciente professors have verye copiouslie vvritten.

Notes

• * 1.1

  The excel¦lentie of Chyrur∣gerye.
• * 1.2

  An excel∣lent simi∣litude.
• * 1.3

  Some mē are cure∣de contayninge the bullet in the bo∣dye.
• * 1.4

  Which are the strange things,
• * 1.5

  The intē∣te of the Aucthor,