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 plaster.

¶ Take rose hony vi. oūces / barly meell one oūce / torpetyne ware / rosyll of eche ii. oūces frankensence / mastyk of 〈…〉〈…〉 myrra / sercocolle / mumye / of eche halfe a dragma. o••tū ma∣sticis. iii. dragma / of this make a salue / & stryke it on a clothe / and say it on y^e ••ucha or backe mary / & it shal be better 〈…〉〈…〉 y^e mayster or surgyā thynke it un〈…〉〈…〉 / but it is not īpossible to y^e nature as she may be holpen w^t the strengthe of y^e good medy∣syne & clensynge. If the woūde be longe / & the bone woūded / and ony peces be cut of / so need you it to take out / yf it be possyble / than sow y^e woūde lyke as I haue shewyd afore / and clense it & heele it lyke an other woūde / & yf the botton of the back bone is cut through / or y^e back bone by the necke / so as he hathe lost his meuynge / so it is in {per}yll to helpe hym. If it be not lost / helpe hym with the strengthe and clensynge of the rose hony / torpentyne / fenigreke meel / and therof make a plaster / and lay it on the woūde / and about the woūde shall ye stry¦ke defēsurū / & hele it lyke an other woūde / If the wounde be through the throte goll /

it is gret peryll / bycause i••. vaynes is in it / the which vaynes comyth to the loungis / and to the hert. As they be woūdyd that is in gret peryll and dedly / & herof wrytheth wilhelnius de saliceto / that he sawe a gret lorde was shotten in one of y^e aforsayd vay¦nes by the throwte goll / ther went out one drop of bloode / in cōtynent the lorde dyed / and the place of the wounde was blacke / & he rattylde so sore tyll he dyed / therby vn∣derstoode wilhelm{is} that the bloode ran to y^e loūges / & to y^e hert stoppynge his brethe / & wilhelm{is} mynde was to leet hym bloode on bothe his armys / but the tyme was to short for hym / therfore it is good in suche a woūde the pacyent to be let bloode / Also he sawe a knyght that was hurte in y^e necke with a longe knyffe that the throwte goll was woūdyd / & he fyll downe & lay styll / and wilhelmus thoughte he had be dede / bycause he felyd no wynde come from him / and he halpe hym that he came to lyfe / Also he sawe a presoner in the towne of Tremō∣de / which of dis{per}acyon cut his one throw¦te / that his meet came out agayne through the wounde and his brethe / than bounde he agayne the partes of the wounde well fast togyder / and layd ther vpon this powder.

¶ Take dragantum / sanguis draconis / gumy arabici / of eche lyke moche in pow∣der / with this defensyffe powder / and plu∣macyoles or small kussyus of clouthes or of roywe / and with the byndynge therto at lenkth / he was helyd in a moneth. ¶ Is the woūde in this {per}tys aforsayd / w^t a shote of an arowe or stytche with a dagger / and the arowe in the wounde / then take it out softly as is aforsayd in the xvi. chaptre. If the arowe be taken out / & bleded sore / then stope it as I haue sayd in the xiiii. chaptre. ¶ And bled it but lytell / or is there no pay∣ne thē heed th•• w^t 〈◊〉〈◊〉 ••nto 〈◊〉〈◊〉 〈◊〉〈◊〉 wounde upō y^t ye may 〈◊〉〈◊〉 con•• pai•••• or not If there bene payne 〈◊〉〈◊〉 may ye 〈◊〉〈◊〉 wounde. But is there pay•••• 〈◊〉〈◊〉 〈◊〉〈◊〉 thē it is nedefull to fylle the hole woūde w^t warme oyle of roses / and put therin 〈◊〉〈◊〉 t••ll re••te deyed before in warme oyle of ro∣fes medled w^t the yolke of tyges / and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 therwith 〈◊〉〈◊〉 woūde open vnto the tyme y^t matter comeout. Thē clēse it lyke another wounde / and hele it with a grene woūded plaster / or with bawme. Som tyme the wounde is shoten through the necke & tow¦ched the throwte goll callyd hysophagus / and trachea / but the synewes and vaynes be not towched / then nede none other cure than the cure of another wounde.