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 clensynge.

Take wyne wherin sodden is Camomylle Faryna lupinorum / Rose hony: al to gyder mydlyd / takyng so moche as it is Inowgh and than strayne it: and therof spowte one pond in the wounde. Than shall you the pacient rolle roūdabout and than tourne hym agayne on the wounde / that the wyne and the clensynge may come out agayne / & than put the•…•… a tente depped in rose hony: Than lay thervpon that mundificatiuum or the grene wounded plaster therin is mo∣che rosyll. and let the olde woūde be closyd shortly. ¶ Auicenna sayth. As ye thyncke be to moche matter in Pleuresy that not is clensyd in. xl. dayes. or les / that dothe the parsone falle in ptisym and to outdryeng of the naturally moystnes. Therfore it nedyd to suche a woūde to occupy a cauterye with a hoote Iron / wherwith ye may throughe bore the brest to the place there the matter abyded in / that the matter may be dryed & that the matter may be dryuen out by lytell and by lytell / & wasshe it with hony wa∣ter y^t the matter maye come out to the vter∣moost membre / and as the wounde is pure clensyd / than go to the helynge ¶ If therto

comyth an impostume / than shall yon cutte open a rybbe on another place of the syde / as I haue lerned you / and it shalbe on the same syde ther the matter is / and than let the mattter out / that shulde be not of neede were the wounde before defendyd from the swellynge / as I haue lerned you. Take al¦so hede as ye let the matter goo out that ye make the pacyent not febler / therwith he sholde lese moche of his myght. And yf the spryte of lyfe is lesyd / than foloweth often tymes the dethe. Therfore take good hede to hym y^t ye hym the tente intymes put in / depped in oyle of roses midled w^t rose hony for better clēsyng of y^e woūded place. And also clense the wounde about with vnguē∣tum apostolicum / whiche salue clensyd all woundes. Therafter wasshe the wounde with this after folowynge myxture.

Take wyne therin es soddē Myrre / and y^e shelles or ga••nat apples / and wasshe there with euery daye the wounde. And hele it with the grene wounded plaster: and with this powder herafter folowynge.

Take Masticke: Myrra: Frankensence: Sarcocolle: Dragons blood: of eche lyke moche: made and dryuen in powder / and than with y^e wyne wasshe the wounde and strawe therin that powder / and laye ther ouer the plaster / and plumacioles. & bynde it with a baunde deppeth in the wyne: and hele it. Som maner of the byndynge of the woundes in the brest makyth y^e flesshe: and sam holdyth alone the medsyns. The fyrste byndynge whyche makyth flesshe must be brode and longe: and therwith begynne the byndynge on the contrarye syde: and bynde the. ii. ••••••es crossewyse on the woūde: and wynde about with the bande so often as it nedyth: and sowe the endes of the bande on that fyrst parte ferre from the same woūde And Henricus sayd Therto shalbe knotte twoo small cordes / the one goynge on the shulder: and the other vnder the arme.

Rogerius for the medsyns to holde maketh a brode bāde with holys and with one ende and that other ende cut: that y^e shulder may go through the hole of the ende of the band & wynde the brest roūdabout / & com agayn ther you began. and w^t that cutteth ende bīde hym the shulder. If it may be done w^tout cuttynge / and omwyndynge the brest / thā shall y^e byndyng be to lyghter / as he sayth / ¶ For to come no impostume vnd the arme so is the brest boūde w^t a cuttynge bande / & with the one ende es boūde roudabout y^e brest comynge vnder the other hole of y^e ar∣me / and w^t the other ende bynde about ouer y^e shulder / & comy agayne on y^e fyrst syde / & is theraft boūd vnd y^e other hole of y^e arme.