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

¶ For the woūde of the eeres Ca xxxviij b. (Book 38b)

IF ony is woūded by y^e eere or in y^e ete wherin is seare y^t the brayne be hutte or y^e baynes of y^e herynge it is in grete peryl & dedly for if y^e bryane be perisshed it is deed¦ly / And yf y^e synewes be perysshed y^e lōgeth to the heryuge so shall he be deffe. Therfor must he ernestly take heed of it / & y^t he gyue knowlegyng to his frēdes. ¶ And yf y^e woū¦de be grete & sore / sowe it & lay thervpon y^e powder of y^e lyme of egge shelles franken∣cens dragons blood and say aboute y^e woū¦de a defensuiū & thervpon towe depte in the whyte of an egge medled w^t a lytel drages blood / & frankencense / & in y^e secōde •••• ••••yr¦de day lay in y^e woūde oyle of roses medled w^t the yolke of an egge / for slakynge of the payne / y^e other day after / ye shall clense the woūde w^t rose hony barly melt. termenty ne / somtyme medled with myr••a / and sar¦cocolle / after the wounde is nedefull to be clensed / or hele it with a grene wounded plaster / or with bawme / and rule hym w^t blood ••ettynge / & to chambre goynge / for y^e lesse comynge of swellyng or spostumaciō▪

If the wounde with shotte take hede of the arow howe depeit is gone in / for y^e pacyent may come lyghtly to chaūgyng in ••brakin¦ge and shakynge with a crampe / and it is a token of deth / and with that token is his eyen reed / therfore it is peryllous to take suche a wounde in hand. ¶ If you wyll do it ••••rough grete desyre or other causys / thā tell his fryendes all the tokens and condy∣cyons / that ye wyll not take hym in hande but for a deedman / than make the wounde wyde / as I haue shewyd you afore / and de fende the place with defensiuum / than pull out the arow heed with your tonggys / as is aforesayd in the. xvi. chaptre / than clēse the woūde lyke as is aforesayd / and make flesshe to growe / and hele it lyke another wounde / ••cule hym lyke as is aforesayd / & let hym dryncke no wyne / ther is nothynge that hurtyth the brayne and the vaynes of herynge so fore as the wyne dothe / therfore it is very good that the persone that is woū¦dyd in the heed beware hym of wyne dryn∣kynge.