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

¶ An defensyfe.

Made of bolo armeno / vynegre / camfere / a lytell roose oyle / and y^e whyte of an egge myxed & made as thycke as hony / because y^e arme shulde nat festre in fyre / by reason of the byndynge caused to gadder the matter about the yron in the woūde / & so the skyn̄e swellyd / wher by the yron cam / ther cut he the skyn̄e and toke out the yrō without any tonge. Than the kynge made hym knyght & an erle. Wherfor ye maysters remembre vpō it as ye can not fynde y^e yron / or y^t it be in a suche place that ye may not cut. yfit be in arme or legge / Is the tymber be goo out and y^e yron is byde within / put therin that instrument callyd a terebell in apype / and shrouyd vpward and pull that yron oute. Yf y^t maye not be done so / make the woūde wyde with tenttys / or with cuttynge / and so may ye pull it oute. But fyrst put in the wounde that instrumente callyd Balista / and ther after the terebelle / because it shall to softer goo in. And yf that yron wyll not cōme out lyghtely whan ye begyn̄e to pull thā proue it with the pyll tonge / and as ye haue the yron with the tonge / and it wyll not cōme folowynge / lyke as it happenyth in the borgōnysshe fylde afore Bloumoūde that a mā was shotten with an arowe / the yron byde in the body and the tymbre was out / To the whyche was many surgeō cal¦lyd for helpe to haue the yrō out / & it wolde not folowe / than cam ther to a surgeon of Straesborowe callyd Hans mayere / and he toke the pyltonge in his hande / and he {per} ceyuyd that the yron was hoked crosse wys and he tourned the yron with the tonge a¦bout so that the crossyd yron cam to y^e same place as it went in / incōtynent cam the yrō out / where by he was sore praysyd / & yet cowde no {per}son tell how he had it out.

¶ Yf it be also that it is nat possible so to do w^t that pullynge out. And yf it be al moste through goynge vnto the further syde / lyke yt happen the arowe to stytche in the legge and the tymbre is styl in it / than sin yte the arow through it / and pull it out on y^e other syde. And yf the tymbre be out than stryke y^e yrō w^t another arowe through. & so must ye do lyke wyse yf suche a case of an arowe happen in y^e body / and y^t is more peryllous And if an yron ware sounke deep in the bo∣dy of a man / that it were not possyble to ta∣ke it out with pyle tōgis nor with plasters nor with tentis / nor with cuttyngis wher as it went in / nor vnto the other syde with outfere / so longe let that yron styke vnto y^e tyme that the natour wyll dryue hym out to appere. Albucasis wryteth of many per¦sonis that arow heedis & gon pylleth that remayne in the body / and hathe worne it many a daye without harme. ¶ Ther hath bene sene in wertenborw a Taylour that had an nedyll in his backe berynge more than. xx. wynter or it was cut ther of /

¶ Of the drynes y^e whiche pull out / thor¦nes / splyntis / glas / bonis / and pyces of bo¦nys / hath Guido made one drynes / taken out of Auicenna / & is made in this maner / And all this {per}••ellis that is in y^e boke that ye vnderstande not / ye shall fynde it in the pottycarris to sell.