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 14, 2024.

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¶ A powder.

Take Frankēsence / Dragōs blood / lyme of gges shelles / & lay it o soywe depte in White of an egge to the aforesayd powder. and than 〈◊〉〈◊〉 it / & the therafter hele the woū¦de to a goene woūded plaster or Jewes pla¦ster or with bawme / and d••••nde ye place that there come no unpostume nor swellyn ge / and this is for the woūdes whiche co∣me in the length. If the woūde be thward and the synēwes and boundes is wounded so set the synewes togyder / and sow it deep in the cuttynge of the woūde / and thervpō lay the powder aforesayd of the egges shel∣les / and than ther vpōlay the groūde wor∣mes stāped and medled as it is afore sayde in the. xiiii. chaptre. If the greate vaynes be woūded it is in doubte yf the blood may be stoppe or nat / yf the wounde shall be he∣lde or nat / & yf that {per}sone shall dye or nat but stoppe the blood wt sowynge of the vay¦ne so it may best be done. & than make ther∣vpon a plaster of this epythimia / that Ga∣lienus set in quinto Therapentis. and take Frākensence one parte / Aloes halfe a parte and make it to gyder in powder / & medle it with the whyte of an egge in ye thycknes of hony / therin depe whyte heere of hatys / & lay it vpon the wounde of the vayne. or ta∣ke this after folowynge reed powder.

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