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 Powder.

Take floure of sterche / Dragantum 〈◊〉〈◊〉 miarabici / Dragons blood: Consolidama ior or Ambra: the here of an hare / and gyue hym twyse or thryse at euery daye. Is the pacyent feble than gyue hym the soppys of sap therin is soddē chykēs / & yf ther be sayd in Dragantum. & Gommi arabici: it were very good / and water therin is sodden Frā¦kencense: Masticke / and this pray seth Wil¦helmus and Rogerius. If ther be ony par∣sone stytcheth or woundyd thar hys gut∣tes come out / and they be not hastly puti•• agayne that they be vnclene / swellyng and chaungynge by the ayre / than shall ye take warme water therin is sodden Camomylle floures / Ameis. or take warme wyne why¦che hath no befulle ryppe / as Lanfrancus sayd / therin shall ye wet a sponge and than

warme the guttys therwith / & salue y^e gut les w^t rose oyle / & put the guttys agayne in to the belly. ¶ Theodoric•• cuttyth open a pyg / or another beest in y^e middes in tweyn & layd it as warme on the guttys so often y^t the guttes may lessyd of the swellyng / that it may come in agayn. If y^e guttes be fallen on y^e groūd y^t it be foule / thā lay it in warm gootys mylke / & clense it therin / & than put it agayne in to y^e belly. Be the guttys swol¦len and the wounde be small y^t the guttys wyll not in agayn / than cōmaūded Galie. Milhelm•• / Lanfrāc•• / & more other / y^t the woūde in the belly shal be cut so grete that the guttys may be put in agayne.

¶ To this cuttynge is cōuenyent y^t instru∣mēt callyd Samgatoria crokydlyke a syc¦kyl / before on the crokynge sharpe / but not sharp on the poynte / & Albucasys set it in a pycture as here standed.

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¶ The pacyent shall lay on his back & hye agaynst the woūde / and the surgean shall wysely cut y^e woūde y^t the other guttes com not out / & than put in agayne the guttys y^t is out. And y^e Surgean must haue a good seruan̄t which shal takē hede of the guttys w^tout with his hande softly / & than take y^e wounde in the myddes & cut the woūde wy¦der / & put therin agayne the guttys / than sowe it as is aforsayd. Therafter defende y^e seme & the wounde (as Galyen{is} sayd) with Formacis that is callyd sanguinolentis / y^t in other membres y^e woūde makyd faste / ly¦ke as dothe the powder y^t holdeth the seme / & the plumacioles w^t wyne / and the plaster w^t other drynes that makyth flesshe. Co myth ther payne of the cuttyng or sowyng as it happeneth oftē tymes (as Auicē. sayd in his. iij. Canon of the cure ofydropisis) y^t of y^e cuttynge cometh payne and pryckyng Therfor it is good to put therin oyle of dyll or camomyl / & vpō the place of the cuttyng lay y^e plaster made of lynseed / hye malowe seede / femgreke / of eche lyke moche. And som other maysters as Henricus for takyn ge away the payne & swellynge / they sethe wyne with salt therin / and so moch branne that it be thycke / & they putteth in a bagge and layd thervpon as hote as the pacyence may suffre. Somtymes is done therto the aforsayd oyle / & do it so often tyll the payne be gone. ¶ The matter that is lette in the belly and can not come through the seem ye need it not to fere greatly / for the moysines can not be moche / & they membres hath not moche blood as Wilhelmus sayth / the na∣ture resoluyth and cōsumyth the moystnes & sendyth to the flanckys / and ther it be en∣ryd lyke another ipostume in y^e same place.