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

¶ Of woundesi•• the iarde or coddes Ca. lij. (Book 52)

THe woundes in this place is ferefull for her subtyll composi¦cyon / & conyngly workynge / neuertheles yf y^e yarde of the man be wounded in lengthe or euerth warte / & yf the wounde be not grete it shall be cured with y^e sowynge / powder / lettynge blood an y^e vayne / and with good paysyon as another wounde. ¶ And yf the wounde be ouerthwart & clene cut of / than is y^e wounde moost in peryll / by the reasen of many synewes & vaynes / therfore som∣tyme y^e pacyent dyeth or y^e blood be stopped

¶ For easynge of the payne in suche a woū¦de. Take warme oyle of roses and anoynte therwith from the vpperparte of the yarde vnder the nauyll / and aboute Periconiam that is bytwene the foundament & his pre∣uyte / & brenne the wounde roundabout w^t a brennynge yron / with that y^e bloode may be stopped / and to take away the crāpe whi¦che comyth often of the payne. And thervpō you may lay also y^e stone aforesayd iu y^e. xv. chaptre. and also the stone made in powder and ther amonge medle Dragons blood / whyte Frankencense / and Aloepaticum / of eche lyke moche mydled with the white of egges stryken on a clothe / or plumacyole y^t in y^e myddes hath a hole as grete as a straw¦bery / and the plumaciole layde theron that the hole maye come euenly to the pype of the yarde that the vryne maye com through / and ouer it shal you do your byndynge / and behynde roundabout ye shall laye the defen¦syuum And ye shall gyue the pacyent euery mornyng / noone / and euenyng the medycy¦nable woūde drynke that I shall set in An∣tidothario. The woundes in the coddes de∣stroyed y^e coddes / and taketh lyghtly away the generatyon all is y^e parson not in no pe∣ryll of dethe. And the cure of this is lyke the cure of a comon wounde.