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 slepe drynke.

Take y^e rote of Solatrū mortale / & semen i••s••ami of eche an oūce / whyte popy sede / & blak popy sede / opiū the baicū adragma / croci oriētalis / corticis mādragora / lignū aloes / Cinamomi / Castoriū / a dragma of eche. And of all these make a course pow∣der / and of this powder take. ij. dragmas and i•• •…•…e it with maluesye / & geue it hym at a draght. And whā he is in slepe than cut vp the wōūde as moche as nedyth tyll it be wyde 〈◊〉〈◊〉. Thā drawe out suche thyn∣ge as is in it with thy fyngers or w^t nipers. In the same maner gōne stonys / w^t nypers or pynsons and other instrumentis as here after is more playnly expressyd / And whā thou wylt haue hym wakend agayne thā put a pece of a sponge in his nose / that hath ben wet in vine gre or in y^e Joyst of Rewe or fenell / and ther w^t all he wakeneth agay¦ne. Sōme geue hym Opiū alone without any other thynge therin tempered / but be∣ware therof / for sōme become frantycke or made therof / thus it is very daūgerous. ¶ If that the woūdis were made wyde with the tentis or with the cuttynge & that they were nat wyde ynough / and that ye durst make it no wyder w^t cuttig through fear of dethe / or lesynge of a ••oynte / than put into the woūde this instrumēt balista y^t is here fygured / wherw^t ye shall enlarge it / and than ye may put your Instrument into the woūde and take out that is in it.