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

¶ Of the wounde of the mouthe Ca. xl. (Book 40)

THe mouth is somtyme hewē that the cheeke hangeth of / & somtyme be y^e tethes hewen awaye / and it is somtyme w^t a sword / and somtyme with another wepen cuttynge. and somtyme it is stytched in a dagger / or w^t a spere / or shoten with an arowe. In suche maner as it happeneth y^t the mouth is woū¦ded / ye shall sowe properly the wounde. & the fyrst stytche of the sowynge set on the nexte place of the mouth / and sowe it back ward goynge vpward and comyng down ward / or at the syde after the wounde is. 〈◊〉〈◊〉 lay on the seme this powder folowynge.

Take lyme of egge shelles / dragōs blood and frankensence / as it standeth in y^e chap∣tre of the sowynge. Thervpō lay toywe or cloth deped in the whyte of egges needled with a lytell powder therin / and thā byn∣de it / and at the. iii. day vnbynde it agayne and thereon lay a grene wounded plaster. and lay about the wounde a good defensy∣uum. And gyue hym to drynke a wounde drynke / as it standeth in Anthidotario. & gyue hym softe metys that hym nede not to chowe / let hym not speke moche. And yf he be hewen in the cheke y^t y^e Jawe bone ther y^e teethes stonde in / y^t the one hangeth from the other / than lyfte that Jawe bone agay¦ne / & set the tethes by one & hardyll y^t to gy¦der w^t a wyre of syluer / & sowe y^t wounde / And rule hym in all maner as is aforesayd ¶ Also make a chyn̄e of woode / and there ouer sowe a cloth / and vpō the cloth pache it with iii. or 〈…〉〈…〉 it is drye / 〈…〉〈…〉 for me / & than 〈…〉〈…〉 do the chy••••e of the 〈…〉〈…〉 ende a hande of i••. fyngers 〈…〉〈…〉 de it togyder 〈◊〉〈◊〉 heed & wynde it abou•• the heed / and sow the endes togyder / and if any be hewyd that the cheke hange from y^e mouth / that shall you sow strongly.