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 strayned rose hony turpentyne vi. oūces. barly meell / as moch as it neded / & thā shal y^e woūde be clene w^t this plaster / & with this plaster / & with the aforsayd spow¦tynge / that takyth away y^e yll matter / and this is the counsell of y^e aforsayd maysters / bycause yf y^e matter sholde abyde in y^e woū∣de / it wolde cometo y^e hert / and to al other gentyll mēbrys within y^e body / & it wolde be the dethe of the pacyent. Theodoricus & Henricus sayd that the wounde sholde be closyd. and yf it is of nede y^t the pacyent is ••eble / tha•• shal yegyue hym strengthyng & confortynge to the nature / and yf the woun¦de be not hastely closen / y^e naturall het ••hol¦de through the wounde come out / and the colde ayre wolde go in / whiche ayre dystro¦yeth the wounde / but Guido makyth con∣corde bytwene the aforsayd maysters / and sayd that the substaūce of the thynges that comyth in the wounde of the brest / as well it is in the fyrst parte / as in the other parte And to all the woūdes of y^e brest belongth ••woo curis / one win / & another without / & this woūdes is to be knowen by y^e for sayd ••okēs. ¶ As you knowe by the aforsayd to∣kens / that there is no membre within woū¦ded / or that no matter comyth therin / the wounde shall ye hele without tentes / and w^t plasters & salue incarnati••ū / & with plu macyoles deppeth in wyne / & with byndyn¦ge that seldō be chaunged / yf ye be called to a woūdyd {per}son / & that ye ••ere y^e woūde ha∣the bleded inwarde / that shal ye know by y^e ratlynge of the pacyēt / & hath he bleded a ly¦tell / & that y^e blood rynnynge is done / than cōmaunde you y^e pacyent to stupe on y^e woū¦de / & that he may meue hym that the blode may come out / and as that is done / so let y^e wounde be tentyd with medsynes or dry∣nes that drawith outwarde / as turpenty∣ne / or hony that is better that drawyth out¦warde / and dryeth / and clensyth. And byn¦de hym with plumacyoles of tow / but not to styffe / in this same day let hym bloode / In y^e. iij. day glyster the wounde w^t the so∣den wyne / as I shall say here after / than tourne the pacyent on the woūde / and ther in doo reasonable tentys / and that it let not y^e out comynge of y^e engeled bloode or mat∣ter / and the tentys shal be bounde with a lō¦ge threde / bycause that the tente ••all not in the ho••nes of the brest / for the pacyent shol¦de suffer moche harme. ¶ If ther be the ryn¦nynge of the blood / than ye shall not stoppe it / but yf it rynnyd to moche / than it is nede¦ful to stoppe it / y^t the pacyent leese not his myght. ¶ As that bloode is stopt / and the other syde is let blood on the vayne / and the wounde is glystert with wyne / than ha••••e you with the tentes / and plastets that the bloode may melt / and consume / and ta•…•…¦ge away the payne / as is these hera•…•….