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

¶ A deffencyfe salfe.

And the deffencyf is made in this maner. Take. iiii. oūces of oliū Rosarū. ii. oūces of boli armeni / terra sigillata / asceti / of eche of them an oūce / canfer one dragma / nyght schae / howse leke / of eche an hand∣full. Of all these ye shall make a fyne oynt mēt in a mortyr / for through these for sayd festenynge of the senowes / and through y^e oyle / powder & oyntment / the lym̄e is pre∣seruyd helyd / and rectifyeth. Also ye shall nat be to sore abasihyd of the payn that cō∣myth of the pryckynge of the nedyll / for y^e payne is swetnyd agayne with the oyle of Rosys whan it hath bene anoynted ther w^t iii. or. iiii. tymes. But yf the payne do nat seas / that is a tokyn of the crampe or a cut tynge of the senowe▪ ¶ Now may ye re••ue me of that I sayd before / that the oyle was a deffendour of the helyng of the woūdis / because I docōmaunde here to put warme Rose oyle in the wounde / & also abuut it. But to this I answere / Though Galien{is} sayth that the woundes ought to be taken hede of y^t ther cōme no here / nor oyle / nor other fylthenes / Therfor I say that y^e oyle of rosys must be made of grene or on type oyle olyue y^t semeth more a ioyst or lycour than oyle / and of the grounde worme the oyle receyueth a conglu••••nacyon. Ye shall neuer begynne to hele vp the woūdetyll y^e payne be passyd and gone / sor if ye hele it vp or the payne be passyd and gone / it is to be feared that an i•••• os••ume and swellynge with great hete / shall stryke to y^e woūde / and of that to fallynge it fortuneth sō tyme the losse of a lymme or dethe. The surgeon may do no better for y^e ease of the dyseasyd pson / but to kepe the woūded lym̄e from swellynge w^t great hete as it is before sayd ¶ Ys that the wounde done nat hele with y^e for sayd oyle and powder / & that y^e woūde dydonclose and began to matter or cōme to draught / than shall ye hele the woūde w^t the grene woūdis salue whiche I wyll set in the antithotarius / and that salue shal be stryked vpon a lynen clothe and layde to y^e woūde at mourne and at nyght / and in the nedermost ende of the woūde / ye shall put a lyttell tent / y^t the senowes be nat meuyd or touched that there come no payne of it. ¶ Yf that there were of y^t matter to great a supsluyte than make this salue folowyng / the which dothe nat only purifye the woū∣dis of the senowes / but also all maner of woūdes / though it were in a depe holowe woūde / whiche salue shalbe made in this maner. Take strayned rosehony. vi. oūcis fyne boultyd barly floure. ii. ouncis / temp these togeder and sethe them / but loke that bren̄e nat. And whan ye haue set it from y^e fyre / stere it well with a spatulum and put therto. ii. ouncis of whyte turpentyne▪ or if ye fynde nō whyte / than wasshe it in colde water tyll it be whyt / but for that cōmon water I haue takē one of these water that I coude get best / as Sanicle water / small planteyn water / consolida minor water / sidou wat rose wat. & whā y^e woūd lenyth of matterynge & wyll drye / ¶ A salue. Thā tāke of y^e forenamyd salue. iiii. oūcis whyt frankencens dragons blode / mastic / sarcocolle / a dragma of eche / temper them all togeder / and lay it to the wounde as be fore is sayd. tyll it be hole / and alway lay aboue the woūde / tow / stepyd in stronge whyt wyne / well warm / & that defēdyth the won̄de from all accedentis / payne swel lynge and hete / specyally whā in the wyne is sodyn Consolida maior mouseer with y^e gelow floures / and sent John̄s wort with the brodleuys. ¶ Yf the cōmon vaynes ve

hurte that be namyd vene or arteria whihe be the betynge vaynes / They may so sore hurt that they shall neuer be helyd trwly / as some doctours say / But that fortuneth whan̄e they be woūdyd ouertwhart / But & they be hurt in length / they may be helyd truly / as it is opynly ynoughe knowen by the veynes y^t belet blode / whiche be helyd in fewe dayes without dryenge powders. But to hele the woūdyd veynes is done w^t the for namyde powder that is made of the dryed ground wormys named Lombrici / and that layde in the woundr / and the for∣sayde rose oyle soden with the groūde wor mys layde warme vpon it with cotton. ¶ Hereof I haue had moche profyte / & al∣so sene it of many good maysters / thoughe y^t som saye that y^e wormys sholde be brent to powder / but it is nothynge soo / but they shalbe dryed in an ouyn where as y^e brede is drawen out of tyll ye may braye them to powder / For whā they be brent to powder they lese theyr strenght of theyr cōglutina cyon or gaderynge togeder of flesshe / But they gader y^e skyn̄e to sone toge•• / y^e whiche to y^e greued senowes is no nede. This for∣tuneth also in y^e salue aforsayd of the sayde wormes / as Lācfrācus & Guido testefied.