The noble experyence of the vertuous handy warke of surgeri, practysyd [and] compyled by the moost experte mayster Iherome of Bruynswyke, borne in Straesborowe in Almayne ... Item there after he hath authorysed and done it to vnderstande thrugh the trewe sentences of the olde doctours and maysters very experte in the scyence of surgery, as Galienus, Ipocras, Auicenna, Gwydo, Haly abbas, Lancfrancus of mylen, Iamericus, Rogerius, Albucasis, Place[n]tinus, Brunus, Gwilhelmus de saliceto, [and] by many other maysters whose names be wryten in this same boke. ... Item yf ye fynde ony names of herbes or of other thynges wherof ye haue no knowlege, yt shall ye knowe playnly by the potecarys. Item here shall you fynde also for to make salues, plasters, powders, oyles, and drynkes for woundes. Item who so desyreth of this science ye playne knowlege let hym oftentymes rede this boke, and than he shall gette perfyte vnderstandynge of the noble surgery

¶ Of the flankes & herpartyes Ca. viii. (Book 8)

Of the flankes ye shall und stande the nether parte of y^e bely frome the lappe to the secrete membrys / & be of. ui. maners / somholde / as myrach / Siphae / Sir bus / & the bonys / som be holden / as y^e semy nall vessellys / the moder or matrix in a wo mā / the fūdament gutt / the senowes & vay nes y^e cōmeth downwarde. ¶ In euery of them is a gryat bone / & they be ordeyned to¦gyder with a great spōdyle namyd ossis sa¦cris on the backe syde / and on the for parte makyng of y^e genytour bone / namyd os pec¦tinis. Thus these bonys go abrode ouer bothe y^e sydes of y^e lymmes of the hyppes / wher through hauyng in thē great holys dothe go bothe senowes / vaynes / & stryn∣ges / they be also but small by y^e syde of pec∣tinis / by the secrete membres. In the myd∣dest of thēm y^t nether parte by the boxys or holownes / or pixides / wherin be stryngys of y^e bonys. ¶ Of the lymmes y^t be holden is fyrst y^e bladder / & is lyke a bagge / wher in is gadered the su{per}flue water / or vryne / that cometh of the kydneys / & y^e bladder is of. ••i. strōge pānicles / & is roundand great about the quātite of a pynte. In it be. ii. lō¦ge wayes named porri vritides / cōmynge from the kydneys a syde halfe / berynge the vryne from y^e kydneys. The necke or pype

of the bladder is flesshy with closynge and onclosynge lacertys or musculys / goynge from the bladder beudyd through the myd¦dys vnto the yarde of the man But in a wo¦man without beudynge / the quātyte of. ii. ynches with ther secrete mēbre / & through that is the vryne dryueth.