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

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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
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Brunschwig, Hieronymus, ca. 1450-ca. 1512.
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[Imprynted at London :: In Southwarke by Petrus Treueris,
In the yere of our lorde god. M.D.xxv. [1525] and the. xxvi. day of Marche]
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Surgery -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A03315.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.

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¶ A Powder.

Take grek is pytche. vi. oūces / boli arme∣ni. iii. oūces mastic / dragōs blod / & oliba∣nian oūce of eche / ye rote of cōsolida maior / 〈1 page duplicate〉〈1 page duplicate〉

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roses of eche an half ounce / of all these ma∣ke a fyne powder / and vse it as before is she wy•…•… After this I wyll shewe you of ma∣ny and diuers powders at more layser in ye Antithodarius. ¶ Of all the staunchyn∣gys of blode thateuer I se / I neuer sawe none better than one stone that is broughte out of spayne or galisce nat far frō ye waye to saynt Jamys whiche I vsyd / & as sone as I towched the mowthe of the wounde or vayne / it staunchyd and closyd / butt I toke also of ye same stone puluerysed & stre∣wed that powder rounde about it in the mean season that ye stone was in it / & whan I wolde occopy it agayn / thādyd I pullys she the stone 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of ye olde blode 〈◊〉〈◊〉 it was freshe agayn. & also. ij. {per}tys of this pow myxed amonge one parte of the other and so vsyd hath done me great pleasure at my most •…•…e & is very profytable / this stone is somwhat palewhyt / and hath somtyme in it small rede vaynes / and is namyd of ye pelgrymes the blode stone / but it is nat the stone Jaspis nor Ematites / and whan the blode is so staunchyde / the wounde helyth as before is specyfyed.

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