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 siccatyf powder

Made of pure whyt frāckencens. ii. partis & Aloepaticum. i. parte / temper this pow∣der with the whyte of an egge as thycke as hony / and depe therin whyte haers hee•• y^t is cut small and lay that to the woūde or vayne / for that dothe nat only staūche the blode / but yt helyth also the arteries / as Lanfrancus of melan hath often tymes prouyd / as he wryteth in the chapter of y^e staunchynge of woundes / that a chylde of iii. yere olde hauynge a knyf in his hande / and sell vppon it and so hurte hym selfe in y^e throte / & vnwares he com by the chylde whiche all redy had lost his sight / and the blode dyde rōne whyte out of vaynes / and his puwlce dyde bete but fayntly / and he layde incontynente hys fynger vpon the mowthe of the wounde that there myght nomore yssowe out the wounde / and with in alystonde the nature was reconfortith / and y^e poulce began to bete agayne / & the iyen began̄ to opyn / than dyde he laye the fornamyd powder vpon the wounde / and vpō that he dyde lay tow depyd in y^e whyte of an egge / and he commaundyd to gyue y^e chylde a morssell of bred stepyd in water / & the nexte daye the chylde was well streng∣thyd / yet he vnbounde nat the bounde tyll the fourthe daye after / and on the. iiii. daye the drynes or cyccatyf was so harde backē there to / that he cowde nat well gett it of. Thā he dyd laye to it the whyte of an egge & oyle of rosis betyn togeder as afore is said and dyd let it laye vpon it tyll the next daye and than was the woūde clene hole / wher¦of all the people therabout had great mer∣uell. ¶ If the blode wyll nat staunche with suche cyccatyffes through any accy∣dentys or tofallynges / thā must ye worke with suche sharpe ferynges or brennyngys as is before specyfyed. ¶ Also another staūchyng takyn by the instruccyō of Aui∣cenna / ¶ A cyccatyf powder Take onquenchyd lyme / dragōs blode aloes succotrini / of eche a lyke moche / and therof a powder made / and vsyd as y^e other before. ¶ If ye wyll haue another that dryeth and resteyneth more.